As I’ve gotten into in past reviews, there is something
rather irksome about how older actors are treated in recent films. For every
film willing to show that these old dogs still got some bite, there’s something
close to a dozen that use ‘old = funny’ as its sole blueprint and burn away
dignity for the sake of cheap yuks. Not to say that this is a one-sided aspect,
since there is definitely some ‘stopped giving a fuck’ behind why certain
actors choose those particular scripts (either that or they’re raising money
for the grandkids), or that there isn’t any comedy to be mined out of the older
generation, same as any other generation; just that the approach for the most
part leaves a lot to be desired.
