If you haven’t had your fill of tired and lazy boomer jokes lately, this Netflix original should be right up your alley. Written and directed by and starring comedian Bill Burr alongside Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine, it’s a non-stop softball rant about the Gen X/Gen Z divide, stuffed with every ‘joke’ you’ve heard in the past five years about political correctness, progressive schooling, and helicopter parenting. Had Burr chosen to really sink his teeth into his own material and create a ‘Falling Down’-style tirade for the 21st century, he might have been onto something, but as it is, ‘Old Dads’ is little more than an old, grumpy Boston guy yelling at people to get off his lawn for 100 minutes.
1/5 stars