Old Dads (2023) review

Long-time buddies Jack (Burr), Connor (Bobby Cannavale) and Mike (Bokeem Woodbine) are having a difficult time with the "modern world": they get fired from the company they started and then sold (for making "inappropriate" comments in a rental car), Mike's upset his younger girlfriend is pregnant (and is apparently scared of fatherhood) and Jack clashes with his son's sanctimonious principal Dr. Schmieckel-Turner (Rachael Harris).  Anyone who's watched the stand-up specials by acclaimed comedian Burr (in his directorial debut) can immediately pick up how he's trying to incorporate that material into feature-film format, but the timing is way off and he really digs into the Grumpy Bostonian "persona," which works when he's got a microphone and a seated audience and not so much when he's surrounded by other actors and actresses and forced to interact with them.  He makes valid points about the hypocrisy of the Left and "cancel culture" and what he perceives is a "softening" of society ... but then again, he's addressed these topics elsewhere.  Death: easy.  Comedy: hard.  Filming a motion picture: tough-ah than bangin' a U-ey.