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 tennis before getting crushed by…
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