I ended up watching this movie because I'll watch pretty much anything. I don't know what is more surprising: the fact that they decided to turn a 2 minute youtube video into a full-length film or that the movie made 30 million dollars. I guess I'm not the only person who will watch pretty much anything.

So if you are not familiar with the Uncle Drew commercials they were an advert for Nike or Reebok or something along those lines and it was basically putting a crap ton of makeup on NBA stars and having them turn up and dominate at pick up games on the street while in disguise. It was really entertaining.

The movie stars Kyle Irving, Shaq, Reggie Miller, Chris Webber, Nate Robinson, and Lisa Leslie, who in case you don't know are (or were) professional basketball players. The movie is reasonably entertaining although it is definitely predictable. The main character is "Dax" (played by Lil Rel Howery) who is a basketball coach of sorts whose team that he is sponsoring gets taken away by his rival Mookie (Nick Kroll) who also steals his materialistic girlfriend. In my opinion Kroll's character is the funniest in the entire movie and I am not entirely sure why that is.

Dax needs to find a new team and ends up creating a team compiled entirely of people in their 70's and well, I am not spoiling anything at all by saying that yeah, they win in the end.

Shaquille O'Neil has a terrifying makeover for his role in this movie and they even poke fun at the fact that during his time in the NBA that he couldn't make any shots that were further away from the basket than right under it.

Overall I would say this movie is ok but not great. It certainly isn't anything terribly special and is a bit of a cliche in that it uses that usual mechanisms and plot progression seen time and time again in hundreds of films.

If you are a big fan of basketball then i would say have a look at this movie. If not, you can probably skip it and not be missing anything at all.