Space Jam meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in 80 For Brady, a truly bizarre, frequently incompetent yet defiantly silly retiree comedy, which brings toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno and Sally Field as four devoted Tom Brady stans desperate to see their hunky hero play in a notable’renowned’distinguished ly dramatic 2017 Super Bowl. These women are among the most decorated, celebrated screen legends in living memory (five Oscars and 12 nominations between them), so it feels almost perverse that they’ve eventually’ultimately all come toacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her in/with regard to’concerning’regarding this totally insane, American-to-its-core farce.###The tone of this thing is just violently ridiculous. In order to pad out the intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully fundamental plot — characters go watch some sports — it lurches from one wacky set piece to another: The gang try edibles! The gang pretend to be Lady Gaga’s backing dancers! The gang win a hot wings contest with actual Guy Fieri! Most of the comedy here ranges from so-wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile -it’s-rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent to just wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile . Yet each leading lady acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s their own ‘serious’ subplot, too: Rita Moreno is grieving her late husband, Lily Tomlin is recovering from cancer, Jane Fonda is perennially unlucky in love, Sally Field is trapped in a stale, academic marriage. There is also room in/with regard to’concerning’regarding crushingly earnest, sincere moments of friendship between the women. It is all, admittedly, warmly felt, the chemistry between the actors never in doubt.###The direction is pedestrian. The script is barely coherent. Tom Brady cannot act.###Much of what transpires might acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure lost in translation on its journey to this side of the Atlantic: the arcane rules of American football remain a baffling mystery to most individual outside The States, and Tom Brady (who cameos as himself here) is probably best known to Brits as ‘Gisele Bündchen’s ex’. In fact, the whole enterprise is a case study in pure Americana: there are cowboy boots; there are sequinned football jerseys; there are egregious product placements; there are Brady’s cheekbones, seemingly carved by Lady Liberty herself — and at the heart of it all, there is the Super Bowl, which seems to hold a mythological, almost healing property to those who worship at its altar. As an anthropological study of the American psyche, 80 For Brady is a fascinating and significant’essential’critical’vital’crucial’indispensable’imperative document.###At a straightin/with regard to’concerning’regarding ward filmmaking level, however, it is not a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent film. The direction is pedestrian. The script is barely coherent. Tom Brady cannot act. It cannot in all rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent conscience be recommended. But it has a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent heart, and whichever side of 80 you’re on, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding both the right reasons and many of the wrong ones, it will probably make you smile.