Old Dads

R

Released Oct 13, 2023

1 hr. 42 min.

Comedy

List

25%

44 Reviews

Tomatometer

85%

2,500+ Ratings

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Three best friends become fathers later in life and find themselves battling preschool principals, millennial CEOs and anything created after 1987.

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Critics Consensus

With Old Dads, Bill Burr shows signs of promise as a filmmaker -- but they're largely muffled by his fitfully funny screenplay's reliance on tired jokes about generational divides.

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Audience Consensus

If you're a Bill Burr fan, then Old Dads' brand of culture clash comedy should be good for plenty of solid laughs.

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Eric L

I knew when I saw the audience to critics disparity that it was probably good. It is good, not great, but as usual the critics are high brow fools who can't create anything on their own, so they take pleasure in crapping on anyone that tries.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/23/24

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Gareth R

This film was very funny and well observed. Being a 50+ I could relate to the frustrations of what Bill Burr's character was going through. Rotten tomatoes definitely got the score wrong on this one. My 22 yrd old son even agreed it was funny and reflected the times!.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/15/24

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Casey C

It was so painful to watch. A group of over acting comedians trying to be funny but ended up being crude and not funny. Ben Burr is a terrible actor. Cringe

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/06/24

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Audience Member

The whole thing about Bill is he's counter culture and this is very much for a spastic audience. It wasn't so much bad as it was beneath Bill.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/27/24

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SandBox H

Instead of an insightful examination of the challenges of clearing intergenerational hurdles within a society, "Old Dads" delivers a dull, depressing exercise in calling out supposed "toxic masculinity" as a husband and father struggles to navigate a world filled with insufferable adult-children and a serious absence of laughs. Conform or be cast out.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/18/24

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Ivana T

What was funny at first quickly became unbearable. I don't hate the movie, I hate that this is real life. I am a millennial yet I identify with Bill Burr's character.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/18/24

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WXIX-TV (Cincinnati, OH)

Bill Burr looks like he's doing stand-up during most of it. Bobby Cannavale is hilarious in a very broad, crazy, zany kind of way...

Rated: B-

Nov 15, 2023

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John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

The writing sometimes collapses into overkill, but sometimes it is precisely on point.

Oct 23, 2023

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Oliver Jones

Observer

Rather than challenge himself, Burr instead uses the film to adapt his schtick into a three-hander bro comedy addressing the generational divide regarding modern mores and language.

Rated: 2/4

Oct 23, 2023

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Chase Hutchinson

The Inlander (Spokane, WA)

To even call Old Dads a movie feels like a gross overstatement as it hardly meets the requirements to be considered one. Instead, it is like a series of recycled stand-up bits that Burr has already done better before. Here, he just bombs over and over.

Jan 4, 2024

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Mark Jackson

Epoch Times

Bill Burr's stand-up comedy rocks, his acting is surprisingly good, and his directing debut is promising. Especially since "Old Dads" advocates for a demographic that doesn't get a lot of visibility these days.

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 4, 2023

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Jim Schembri

jimschembri.com

Very funny... serves up a sound backhander to the insipid nature of woke culture where offense is taken at every turn...Burr, who co-wrote with Ben Tishler, proves himself a fine director, giving each character arc, even the supporting ones, their due.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 2, 2023

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Synopsis

Three best friends become fathers later in life and find themselves battling preschool principals, millennial CEOs and anything created after 1987.

Director: Bill Burr
Executive Producer: Jamie D. Boscardin, Joshua A. Foster, Thom Zadra
Screenwriter: Bill Burr, Ben Tishler
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Miramax, All of Us Productions, All Things Comedy
Rating: R (Sexual Material|Brief Drug Use|Pervasive Language|Nudity)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 13, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 20, 2023
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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