‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr & Friends Scream, Yell And Curse Through A Way-Over-The-Top Netflix Comedy

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Three fiftysomething jerks extend their adolescence way, way beyond the breaking point in Old Dads, a boorish and obnoxiously vulgar comedy that, since it can’t claim any other great distinction, might well have been expressly written to break the all-time record for use of the f-word in the major studio movie.

Even Lenny Bruce might be twitching in his grave over this one. All the same, director/co-writer Bill Burr has more often than not had his finger on the pulse of the populace, so this slap-dash-feeling Netflix offering likely will prove a solid audience-pleaser.

There certainly have been plenty of comedies featuring guys who put off behaving like adults for as long as they can; perhaps The Odd Couple still stands as the quintessential example of this subgenre whose roots go pretty deep.

In this case, the three buds behave as if they should be enrolled, not in grade school, but in some after-school course in remedial behavior; as one of the boys feels compelled to point out, “Daddy, you said a bad word.” But as long as these three guys — Jack Kelly (writer-director Bill Burr), Connor Brody (Bobby Cannavale) and Mike Richards (Bokeem Woodvine) — hang out together, they seemingly can’t help but behave like the smart-asses they must have been in middle school; they even refer to girls and women by calling them the c-word in the schoolyard.