 So Uncle Drew has been around for a number of years now and to be quite honest he's been quite entertaining and now Pepsi has decided to take said character and make a full length feature film about him. But how was it? Let's find out. My name is Brandon Keith Avery and this is just my opinion. Hey what's going on guys thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review. For Uncle Drew I really do appreciate it. I remember when I first saw the trailer for Uncle Drew it was around the time that Black Panther was about to be released in theaters or right when it was in theaters. I said to myself oh I remember that character from YouTube the Pepsi commercials he's funny you know I'm entertained I like the cast I like Little Red Howie from Get Out you know I'm on board this seems like it's going to be a good time. But when I actually got into the theaters and actually on my way to the theaters and when the lights was turning down I honestly said to myself like I really have no idea where they're going with this film what the tone is going to be I had no idea what to expect. Now this movie is being directed by Charles Stone III whether you're familiar with him or not I am personally he directed Drumline with Nick Cannon also Paid in full which is another favorite of mine a cult classic especially in the Black community and Mr. 3000 starring the late Bernie Mac rest in peace my brother and what the film is about is you have Little Red Howie he has a girlfriend being played by Tiffany Haddish you know he's more into her than she's into him you know we've all heard that story before but he takes his life savings and he puts it up because he wants to enter in this Harlem Street ball basketball tournament it called Rutgers and it's just legendary I mean this is the 50th year anniversary he feels that hey man if I win this tournament I'm gonna get the bragging rights I'm gonna get the cash money and me and Tiffany Haddish character I forgot her name but we're gonna get married and we're gonna start a family you know but unfortunate events happening he loses his team and all of a sudden Uncle Drew just comes out of nowhere this legend from way back in the day that was just crossing and breaking everybody's ankles on the court disappears but Uncle Drew just pops back up and that's where the film picks up you know these two teams up and you know he doesn't have a new team anymore he has Uncle Drew and Uncle Drew is like hey I don't mind getting down with your brother has to be my rules it has to be my team and it has to be my way and you know that is where the film progresses now I did like the intro of this film it set the tone for me initially but actually when I was starting to get to know the characters especially Tiffany Haddish and Little Red Howie I just wasn't feeling them that much and I started to get down because I just did not know what to expect or like where they was going with this movie I mean I don't know if this was a film that I was supposed to be taking seriously if this was supposed to be a comedy a serious comedy I just did not know but lo and behold things did pick up and everything start did start to come together actually in the very beginning I kind of got the mindset of like you know is this kind of like a black version of an Adam Sandler movie the old-school Adam Sandler not the new school you know cuz right now in my opinion all he's doing is just making crap and just doing cash grabs I mean he's having fun that's what you want to do but I just really don't feel like he's putting effort into his work and that's kind of how I started to feel about Uncle Drew now one of the reasons I was not a big fan of Little Red Howie's character at first his name in the film was Dax was because he just wasn't anyone to stand up for himself he seemed like a pushover and he just seemed like a people pleaser and you know if that's the type of life you live you're just never gonna be happy and I just really couldn't get on board with him at that point so eventually I did get on board with Dax's character he was funny and I like to laugh and you know he's a comedian in my opinion he's the way he would just interact him with the people around him I was kind of saying to myself you know if I was in this situation I will react the same way too when it comes to Uncle Drew played by Kari Irving who is a real life NBA basketball star or legend who is playing right now I did not like the intro to Uncle Drew I mean you know it's coming you know that there's gonna be a basketball game on the court and people are gonna be playing not up to his standards and he's gonna be to the side talking trash like oh I can do better and somebody calls him out and he goes out there and you know just kind of don't doesn't mean in front of everybody that's cool and all that good stuff but I kind of felt like that sequence of sequence of events and this film was rushed I don't know why they had to hurry I just kind of wanted them to slow down I mean it was just kind of too on the nose for me but it was still entertaining and I liked it and I think Kari Irving did a great job I should think all the characters did a great job in this movie other than one gentleman by the name of Nick Crowe he was the villain in the film or maybe I guess you can say the antagonist and he would just a little bit over the top for me I know that this film is a comedy and a lot of people just say okay brain and you don't have to take it that serious and no I like silly things but at the same time silly things has to match everything else around you you know I mean a film needs to set the rules of the universe and stick to it and the film did that early on but his character was just too over the top I mean just like I understand that the film has to set up an antagonist for you not to like him for the rooted for the rudeness the audience the film has to give the audience somebody to root for and somebody to root against and of course we are rooting against Nick Crowe's character but like I said it just it just didn't fit with everything else I mean he would just come through like yeah you know I'm the guy that you're not supposed to like I'm not smack I mean that's just kind of where he came across and I just not I just wasn't feeling him but every other every other character in the film I adored I love especially a little real how I loved him more and more and more as the film went on just as a character on screen I love everything about his backstory even though it was simple it was funny and it had a level level of depth to it I said Uncle Drew did a great job being played by Kari Irvin Lisa Leslie is in this she did a great job to Shaquille O'Neal is in this I mean this guy is just a big kid I was watching this movie and I was just saying to myself man I would love to be a fly on the wall on set while they was filming this because I know in between takes that was having such a great time of course you also have Nate Robinson Reggie Miller and Chris Weber in the film as well and they all did a great job too especially Reggie Miller and Chris Weber Nate Robinson's character he did not have that many lines but the time when the film was focused on him it did pop it did shine he did do the film justice but Reggie Miller I was not expecting him to have such a great comedic time and he did a great job and Chris Weber too by priests I mean there's a he's a he's name is priests and he's a preacher he's married to Lisa Leslie's character whose name is Betty Lou and I like the relationship that they had between each other it was little corny at times but corny is not a bad thing I like good corny good corny can be a great thing and just you know me as a black man and growing up in the black church and seeing the church scene that they had into in this movie they having to do with baptism and all that it was hilarious I was laughing my ass off and this was one of the scenes here to where Dax's character really elevated the film for me because like I said earlier he was really reacting a way I would like man what are you doing you can't do that that's crazy if you do that you know this is what's gonna happen and I don't want to be too specific right now because I don't want to ruin the film for you and you probably know what I'm talking about just from the trailers but just in case you haven't I'll laugh my butt off in the church scene and just to talk about Chris Webb's character just a little bit more a priest I really did feel like you know it was a real character and beneath it all like I mean yes he's in makeup in the makeup was a good job and you know this Chris River under there but you just the way you know when he wasn't acting silly and just kind of calming down settling and just having dialogue with the other characters in the film about his wife about his life about things back in the day about why the group fell apart I was like man this really feels like a real character you know everybody else did not feel like a real character but I'm not saying that they're bad I mean they were just you know comedic people on screen but I really did feel something from Kaui Irving's character or Uncle Drew and priests being played by Chris Weber but science that the film is funny as hell I was laughing my butt off from beginning to end in this entire movie I wasn't just screaming at the top of my lungs but there was a good number of times the while was chuckling and hard and everybody else in the theater was laughing too I mean it was a good experience for everybody and please if you go see this go see this with as many people in the movie theater as you possibly can some people may not like to do that and like to stretch out but I don't know for some reason this is just a movie that you just want to see with family and friends I think it enhances the experience and it I mean I went by myself but I was laughing and looking to my left for my right and it was doing that too just like man can you believe they doing this crazy stuff on screen right now this is great I'm loving this so I mean it's funny as hell I was loving the characters pretty much a great film all around also what's surprising is for a film that you know a lot of people may not take seriously and that's perfectly fine there was a lot of heart to this film too a lot of sentiment of value you know I'm saying like you really got to understand what was important to people in this film why they love basketball so much what persons they love what persons they like and didn't like and things like that what motivated them and they had a lot of a lot of that and I loved every bit of that now on the flip side a thing that I did not like about the film and this is just really my only gripe is that well first of all my great was the Nick Crowe character I did not like him at all but my next gripe is why you had all these great sentimental value with all these scenes with a lot of sentimental value love and heart I felt like that was kind of rushed through just a little bit you know I mean like I don't know it's kind of just like they was worried that you know people just wasn't gonna be feeling that and they wanted to get to the last so they just kind of like cut it kind of quick and I'm like no just stay right here in the film just a little bit like I want to see more of this like you don't have to rush through I mean every time a problem would arise in the film it was resolved just like this and I just kind of wish they would have fleshed that out a little bit more and you know that in America we have a three-act structure and majority of our films and right at the end of the second act in the beginning of the third there's always a character fallout like well if you man and if you were just something happens and this character goes this way and then the character that they have some beef with they come in at the last minute and you know makeup at the very end and so when they had that portion of the film yes the the fallout was real but it would just rush through a little bit and I kind of wish they just would have stuck there a little bit longer as far as all the basketball the concern that's great that a lot of people got the ankles broken this all the basketball games fell real the ending championship and the Rutgers tournament I had actually had no idea if the team that we're rooting for is gonna win or lose I really just did not know I had no clue and that's just a accolade or testimony how great I want to say the film is because you know you don't want things to be predictable and it wasn't here I really did not know and said that last shot dropped or I don't know if it dropped or if they made it I'm teasing you right now I'm not gonna tell you who won you're gonna have to see the film for yourself but you know I really did like it the film started out a bit slow but it got better and better and better other than the villain and them kind of rushing through the sentimental moments there was nothing for me to complain about I talked about the church scene how that was funny the dialogue was great there was a little scene at a club which was very funny I mean this is a movie that I know for effect that I'm gonna be buying on Blu-ray I'm not gonna buy them 4k cuz there's just no point of doing that but I will be buying this on Blu-ray this is a movie to where if you know a year from now if I'm flipping through channels and I see that they have Uncle Drew playing I can just stop what I'm doing and watch the remainder of the film no matter what point is it I mean I can see my friends coming over and we have this plan oh it's Uncle Drew yeah turn it up bro you know I mean it was just a great film I really did enjoy and I think you will too if I had to rate Uncle Drew out of a 1 out of 10 I'm gonna give it an 8 out of 10 yes and 8 out of 10 but guys that is just my opinion have you seen Uncle Drew have I turned you on have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know down in the 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