‘The Dink’ Sees Comedy in US Pickleball Craze

Pickleball politics can get ugly. A new movie lampoons them.

When Anna Leigh Waters heard that a comedy movie was being made about her beloved pickleball, a la Talladega Nights or Dodgeball, she had a few concerns.

‘The Dink’ sees comedy in US pickleball craze

When film-maker Josh Greenbaum first ventured onto a pickleball court, he found an accessible pastime that could quickly turn intense, generating not just sweat but a range of emotions in minutes.His conclusion: pickleball had all the right ingredients for comedy.Greenbaum drew on that observation to direct The Dink, an Apple TV film that premiered last...

Andy Roddick Makes Acting Debut in ‘The Dink’: ‘He’s Always Funny, but He’s on Another Level in This Movie,’ Says Star Jake Johnson

Andy Roddick makes his acting debut playing a version of himself in the new pickleball sports comedy “The Dink.” The film’s star Jake Johnson and the tennis champion had appeared on each other’s podcasts prior to making the movie. “He’s always funny, but he’s on another level in this movie,” Johnson told me at “The […]

Who would have thought that Scotty McCreery would steal the show in Apple TV+’s new comedy 'The Dink'?

There are plenty of laughs in Apple TV+‘s new sports comedy ‘The Dink’ but for Country music fans, the film’s most memorable moment arrives courtesy of a familiar voice from North Carolina. Starring Jake Johnson as a former tennis prodigy whose career has long since unravelled, ‘The Dink’ is, at its heart, a redemption story. Johnson’s character now spends his days working for his father at a struggling tennis club, with Oscar winner Ed Harris b…

Pickleball is star of ‘The Dink’

MARY STEENBURGEN and Jake Johnson star in “The Dink” (Apple TV). By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer It’s the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendant of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The story itself is very by the books: A once promising tennis prodigy learns to get over himself and his disdain for the “lesser sport.” In one version of the world it could have been “The…

Pickleball is the star of the sports comedy ‘The Dink’

It’s the tennis establishment versus pickleball enthusiasts at an uptight club in “The Dink,” a kind of spiritual descendant of “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.” The story itself is very by the books: A once promising tennis prodigy learns to get over himself and his disdain for the “lesser sport.” In one version of the […]