Spawned, bizarrely, by a 2012 Pepsi Max advert, this good-natured get-the-gang-back-on-the-road movie sees 26-year-old NBA star Kyrie Irving reprise his role (and heavy prosthetic makeup) as the fictional Uncle Drew, a geriatric basketball legend capable of slam-dunking with one hand and eating a ham sandwich with the other. Drew and his former teammates are cajoled into picking up the ball again by deadbeat coach Dax (Get Out’s Lil Rey Howrey), discovering that “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”. Corniness abounds, but Tiffany Haddish of Girls Trip is a lightning bolt of rambunctious energy as Dax’s shopaholic ex, and there’s an amusing cameo from Shaquille O’Neal as a player nicknamed “Big Fella”.
Uncle Drew review: a good-natured slam-dunk
A basketball flick where prosthetics, energy and corniness abound