The Dink review – Jake Johnson’s pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs

The Dink review – Jake Johnson’s pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs. Johnson is delusional ex-tennis player The Hammer, who has to switch to the sport he loathes after injuryThere’s some funny stuff here in this engagingly silly sports comedy from producer-star Jake Johnson about the world of pickleball, and how this (allegedly) facile pseudo-tennis game for children and old people threatens to infantilise and dumb down the world of tennis itself.Dusty (Johnson) is a middle-aged loser, delusionally nicknamed The Hammer, who once showed early promise at

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Trechos de apoio da pauta: Johnson is delusional ex-tennis player The Hammer, who has to switch to the sport he loathes after injuryThere’s some funny stuff here in this engagingly silly sports comedy from producer-star Jake Johnson about the world of pickleball, and how this (allegedly) facile pseudo-tennis game for children and old people threatens to infantilise and dumb down the world of tennis itself.Dusty (Johnson) is a middle-aged loser, delusionally nicknamed The Hammer, who once showed early promise at tennis before getting crushed by a humiliating teen encounter with the young Andy Roddick (playing himself in cameo). These days Dusty coaches at the tennis club owned by his dad (Ed Harris), who is scowlingly contemptuous of everything Dusty says and does.

• Ponto de atenção: dink.
• Ponto de atenção: review.
• Ponto de atenção: jake.

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