Old Dads

A refreshingly unapologetic and on point observational comedy.

I sat there thinking why havnt I seen anything like this in years.

Well reading some other reviews I got my answer, yell and cry load enough and you get what you want. If what you want is boring paint by numbers PC appease everyone crap.

I'm thankful to say this is not that.

It does at some points push a little to far with Bobby's I used to be cool narrative.

My wife and I both sat there saying wow this is so true. We need more comedy's that are not afraid to by funny, there is a reason all the comedy's you love and remember we're not made in the last decade.

I suspect this film will get some bad reviews, particularly if you aren't familiar with Bill Burr's stand up or you find his style of comedy a bit much (Michael McIntyre he's not). Personally I'm a big fan of Bill and the character he plays in this film is pretty much the one you get in his stand up shows.

The movie was written by Bill and that's evident straight from the start with the dialogue very much in his style and in line with his stand up contains several amusing scenes with middle aged men trying to understand the world of woke. However I felt the film lost some pacing and ran out of steam a little in the second half, as Bill's character makes the transition into something more acceptable to modern society.

Worth a watch if you like Bill. If you don't then maybe not.

Old Dads is essentially a snapshot of Bill Burr's longstanding stand up routines so there aren't many surprises for the viewer.

So as a result your like or dislike of the movie will basically hinge on your opinion of Burr himself.

Its a softer representation of his material, I guess in an attempt to widen the audience and it does work from that perspective.

Its also very much a case of the older you are the more I think you will like the movie. Old Dads is full of generational jokes, pitting those who had to walk 5 miles in the snow to get to school vs the modern 'snowflakes'.

Its funny enought to get you by :)

This film will divide generations, I consider myself as quite a liberal sort of person but the mauling this is getting from certain critics says more about them than anything. If you like Bill Burr then you'll love this movie, if you are easily offended and like to pretend that everything can be sanitised and pigeonholed away then you probably won't.

It's a Bill Burr stand up routine in the form of a movie, it's not cancel culture (as some would describe) but more about how ridiculous the world seems these days compared to what people like me (a 50 something) grew up with. Personally I found it laugh out loud funny, something original in a sea of mediocrity.

It had some funny moments, but I found myself being more frustrated than anything. I guess the emasculation of men is supposed to be funny? The men do nothing wrong and the women are absolutely insufferable, but everything is the men's fault. I can't believe this wasn't written by a woman. I feel like this movie missed an opportunity to make a real statement by going in the direction they chose. In the end the only statement made is that men are terrible and it's acceptable to treat them as such.

Outside of those issues, I feel like it was a well made movie. The acting was good, in particular Bobby Cannavale who I usually do not care for.