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

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

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 ha…

Old Dads review – Bill Burr’s angry, unfunny Netflix comedy

The comedian makes his directorial debut with a bitter misfire about three older fathers railing against political correctness

‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr Directs a Gen-X Dad Comedy That’s Really a Drive-By Attack on All Things Correct

"Old Dads" isn’t nearly as good as "Curb Your Enthusiasm," but at times it feels like three episodes of that show jammed together — that is, if the Larry David character were a Gen-X firecracker whose anger-management issues make Larry look like a pussycat.

‘Old Dads’ Review: Bill Burr’s Directorial Debut Is a Hacky Netflix Comedy About Raising Kids in a Changing World

Like Bill Maher if he were very bald and occasionally funny, 55-year-old actor, “rage comic,” and blue-collar man of the people Bill Burr is a Joe Rogan liberal whose entire career is based on mocking the hypocrisies of political correctness and telling millennials to get off his lawn. He’s the living personification of Principal Skinner saying, “Am I so out of touch? No. It’s the children who are wrong!,” but in a thick Boston accent.  With tha…