The executives from Netflix refer to this archetype as “crusty but benign”, but Burr’s bile really tests that second bit. Then, she farts.īeing a bastard acquaints a person with unsavory bedfellows, drives away their loved ones, and as suggested by a cautionary tale rideshare driver, ultimately coot-ifies them until they’ve become Bruce Dern. The most cutting joke comes when Burr’s willing to dish it out to himself instead of everyone and everything else, as a stranger agrees with a delighted Jack’s anti-vaping stance, then goes on a tirade about those good-for-nothing immigrants. You ever notice how the only ones to use those stupid electric scooters are low-testosterone losers? Or the way that there’s never a parking spot when you drop your kid off at their overpriced bougie elementary school? And what’s the deal with pronouns?! He passes off stale gripes as observations, self-styled as the last voice honest enough to repeat the Top 40 grievances gleaned from a few minutes’ scrolling on Facebook. Of course they’ll get their collective act together, but they will not be happy about it, and as they continue to rail against a tolerant present they eventually succumb to rather than accept, neither will we.Ī seasoned standup of prickly comic powers, Burr makes himself sound like a reactionary Jerry Seinfeld routine in the script he co-authored with Ben Tishler. Fresh out of a job and each saddled with the duties of a different stage of parenthood, they must adapt or face the prospect of a long, cold and lonely future, a greying Apatovian rehash right down to the wake-up-call Vegas road trip nicked from Knocked Up’s second act. They literally deal in masculine nostalgia, as the co-founders of a throwback jersey retailer they’ve just sold to a dweeby millennial CEO (Miles Robbins) who will soon use cancel culture to oust them after they’re caught on a mic deadnaming Caitlyn Jenner. In Bill Burr’s dire directorial debut Old Dads, our boys Jack (Burr), Connor (Bobby Cannavale), and Mike (Bokeem Woodbine) mostly pine for the past as a golden age when they could get away with anything, before wokeness came in and started pussifying all the alpha males.

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