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The film received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of 91 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "Jake Johnson gives his all to pickleball in The Dink, a funny and easygoing enough comeback for the sports comedies of yore that leaves it all on the court with ample pizzazz." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 57 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
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60 of 167 · most liked firstTrailer drops tomorrow! The Dink — a new comedy movie starring Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Andy Roddick, Patton Oswalt, Chloe Fineman, Chris Parnell and Aaron Chen, with Ben Stiller. Coming July 24 to Apple TV.
neutral · AI labelView post →New Doughboys Thursday! Sean Clements (The Dink) joins the 'boys to talk tennis, pickleball, and his new movie The Dink before a review of Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken. Plus, another edition of Drank or Stank. headgum.com/doughboys/guss-world-famous-fried-chicken-2-with-sean-clements
neutral · AI labelView post →Jake Johnson shares what he enjoys about filming in Los Angeles. His latest film is "The Dink." #JakeJohnson #TheDink
neutral · AI labelView post →Apple TV's new pickleball comedy "The Dink," features turf wars, tensions with tennis players — and that popping sound.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dink is my most anticipated film of the year
positive · AI labelView post →Apple TV do some edgy stuff, but pickleball sports-comedy The Dink plays it very safe. Jake Johnson is The Hammer, a tennis instructor who revives a heated rivalry with star Andy Roddick; Mary Steenburgen, Ben Stiller, Ed Harris+ Patton Oswalt co-star...3 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/08/01/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →THE DINK is a bad movie lightly draped over the decaying skeleton of a competent elevator pitch. My review is at @thewrap.com.
negative · AI labelView post →#NowWatching: I don't care how many things he's in, he's always going to be the dude from New Girl to me. #MovieSky #FilmSky #ComedySky #TheDink
neutral · AI labelView post →Writer Sean Clements joins us to chat about his latest project The Dink. It's a movie about pickleball that was inspired by some of Sean's experiences with the sport – which he was very skeptical about at first as a pretty serious tennis player. www.youtube.com/watch?v=grax...
neutral · AI labelView post →no I will not be seeing the appletv+ movie The Dink, because I do not appreciate that kind of language
negative · AI labelView post →The Dink is an underdog sports comedy that succeeds because it is so well-cast. Everyone — even those actors in smaller parts — is placed in a familiar role and allowed to just let the laughs flow. Nothing is forced, and it’s genuinely enjoyable to see a movie that doesn’t... #FilmSky 📽🎥🎬 1/
positive · AI labelView post →"A pleasing popcorn movie." Jake Johnson gets his pickleball on in Josh Greenbaum's throwback sports comedy The Dink — streaming now on Apple TV. Read our review: www.empireonline.com/movies...
neutral · AI labelView post →On Monday night, Chloe Fineman walked the carpet for new movie The Dink, following two big pieces of career news in the last week — first, that she was leaving Saturday Night Live, and second, that she would be joining Netflix show Myron Bolitar as a series regular.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dink: I think ultimately this movie needed either Nancy Meyers or Alex Winter - you have to be smarter than Sean and have visual sense, or you have to treat it at face value. Still, Sean wrote it, so 10 stars. I laughed, I cried, it's tremendous
positive · AI labelView post →We're talking THE DINK this week, the new pickleball comedy from BARB AND STAR director Josh Greenbaum. Comedian (and pickleballer!) Jaron Myers is our guest! Plus we pitch some truly unhinged movies based on throughly modern concepts. #filmsky maximumfun.org/episodes/max...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dink: charming Jake Johnson film that made me really want to learn pickleball letterboxd.com/marie_philli...
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the new movie, "The Dink." I came in 2nd place in our 9th-grade P.E. pickleball tournament in 1988. I think it's time to make a comeback. My Bride and I could rock it in mixed doubles.
neutral · AI labelView post →On Monday night, Chloe Fineman walked the carpet for new movie The Dink, following two big pieces of career news in the last week — first, that she was leaving Saturday Night Live, and second, that she would be joining Netflix show Myron Bolitar as a series regular.
neutral · AI labelView post →Streaming this Week: • The Real Housewives of London premiere • The Legend of Aang movie on Paramount+ • WWE: Unreal S3 on Netflix • Stuart Fails to Save the Universe on HBO Max • Jake Johnson's The Dink • TWD: Dead City S3 on AMC+ • and more! streamscoop.substack.com/p/the-real-h...
neutral · AI labelView post →ScreenRant’s 2026 Summer Movie Preview presents The Dink. Jake Johnson stars as Dusty, a washed-up tennis pro who now coaches children at his father's country club, and who has latched onto his dad's hatred of the pickleball fad to win his approval. 👀 On Apple TV July 24. Read More: bit.ly/4ekEXFc
neutral · AI labelView post →The plot of The Dink is pretty predictable, but director Josh Greenbaum gets everything he can out of the script and the cast. It’s surprisingly funny and heartfelt. Not every movie has to earn a Best Picture nomination. Sometimes, films just need to entertain. The Dink does. /END
positive · AI labelView post →Reviews are in for Josh Greenbaum’s comedy The Dink, starring Jake Johnson & Mary Steenburgen. Stream it on Apple TV Friday. www.metacritic.com/movie/the-di...
neutral · AI labelView post →yeah sure can't wait to recommend people watch a film called "The Dink," that's definitely gonna happen, just like it's a delight to tell people they should watch "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar"
negative · AI labelView post →Apple really has a problem finding movies that land (the less said about The Dink the better), but there are a couple of decent moments in this which all come down to Ryan Reynolds’ delivery.
negative · AI labelView post →"The Dink" is out now on Apple TV, starring Jake Johnson and Mary Steenburgen as a washed up tennis pro and his unexpected pickleball partner, with Ed Harris and Andy Roddick rounding out the all star cast. zurl.co/WHq20
neutral · AI labelView post →Patton Oswalt wearing trans pride colored pickleball shirt in the hilarious movie The Dink I see you @pattonoswalt.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Mushroom cloud cameo in Ed Harris's PowerPoint presentation on the evils of #pickleball in Apple TV's new comedy film THE DINK.
neutral · AI labelView post →This week I review the comedy #TheDink, Nicolas Winding Refn's #HerPrivateHell, Kevin Hart in #72Hours, #MotorCity starring Alan Ritchson, and the drama #ReadingLolitaInTehran lastonetoleavethetheatre.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-... #moviereview
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dink is an excellent movie
positive · AI labelView post →I haven’t watched THE DINK but I’m honestly just happy it’s a movie and not a 6-episode miniseries
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dink isn't a good movie, but it did have a great subtle gag. Two people talk about a new (fictional) Malcom Gladwell and one of them says it argues The Beatles were so good because they practiced.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night I watched #TheDink (2026), a fun, often funny, and surprisingly emotional movie newly streaming on Apple TV. It stars Jake Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Ed Harris, Ben Stiller, Aaron Chen, Cleo King, and Lynne Marie Stewart, with Andy Roddick and John McEnroe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dink
positive · AI labelView post →If you’re an Apple TV subscriber who’d like to see Jake Johnson play two different types of jerky doofus, this is your lucky month! THE DINK is a hilarious sports movie, and MAXIMUM PLEASURE GUARANTEED is a top-notch crime/thriller series.
positive · AI labelView post →📽️ #FilmSky #NowWatching The Dink (2026) Dir. Josh Greenbaum Mainly watching for Aaron Chen, but going in with an open mind 🤞 boxd.it/Qqse
neutral · AI labelView post →The first pickleball movie is, appropriately enough, a charming underdog story. THE DINK arrives on Apple TV on Friday. My short take: www.deepfocusreview.com/reviews/the-... #FilmSky #MovieSky #FilmCommunity #MovieCommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on The Obsessive Viewer Podcast, Andy and Brent join me to review Spider-Man: Brand New Day and the new AppleTV sports comedy, The Dink! We also discuss news, Indianapolis film events, and more. Check it out and subscribe so you don't miss an episode.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's first movie is The Dink 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →My cousin asked me if I'd seen the movie 'The Dink' yet. My reply was that I didn't know they were making a movie about Pierre Poilievre.
neutral · AI labelView post →Warning: The Apple TV movie “The Dink” is brazen pickleball propaganda. These people will stop at nothing, down to enrolling Mary Steenburgen (only one of the most likable actresses ever) to surreptitiously advocate for their nefarious dreams of kudzu-like spread.
negative · AI labelView post →Watching the biggest movie of the summer The Dink
neutral · AI labelView post →The new Apple TV movie “The Dink” is a comedy about a former tennis prodigy who learns to embrace pickleball. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13991897/dink-pickleball-comedy-film-review-ben-stiller-jake-johnson-ed-harris-mary-steenburgen
neutral · AI labelView post →The Dink was surprisingly humorous throughout the whole movie. Jake Johnson is so subtly funny with just his facial expressions. It also shockingly tells a great story about a kid whose entire childhood depends on a sport, and what happens when that same sport is taken away.
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching The Dink
neutral · AI labelView post →This film wants to be this silly engrossing comedy, but forgets to do anything memorably comedic. I barely remember anything about it other than the most basic of plot details. Not great. My review of The Dink (2.5/5.0) at IceCream4Freaks
negative · AI labelView post →This week on FanBolt I preview 9 new movies coming out including Jake Johnson in the comedy #TheDink, the horror film #HerPrivateHell, Kevin Hart in #72Hours and Alan Ritchson in #MotorCity: www.fanbolt.com/177647/a-loo...
neutral · AI labelView post →'The Dink' Review: Apple TV's Pickleball Comedy Courts Disaster. There’s nothing to relish about this boring, unfunny flick, starring Jake Johnson as a jerk ex-tennis pro.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know what what people will be talking about on the courts this morning!———Movie Review: Pickleball is the star of the sports comedy ‘The Dink’ apnews.com/article/dink...
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW REVIEW on Every Movie Has a Lesson: Call me an easy mark for a cliché sports comedy, but the easy appeal of pickleball and the crass humor given to it marry well in THE DINK, coming to AppleTV+: everymoviehasalesson.com/blog/2026/7/...
positive · AI labelView post →Anyone nostalgic for the formulaic underdog sports comedies of the 2000s might appreciate Apple TV's innocuous throwback THE DINK, starring an appealing Jake Johnson as a failed tennis prodigy who reclaims his dignity on the pickleball court. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →I interviewed Mary Steenburgen and Michigan-raised producer Mike Witherill on Hollywood's first A-list pickleball film, The Dink.
neutral · AI labelView post →Funny Trailer for Apple TV+ Ensemble Pickleball Comedy Film THE DINK
neutral · AI labelView post →Jake Johnson, Ben Stiller Catch Pickleball Fever in Apple’s ‘The Dink’ Trailer. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyVNFzx5Pl8
neutral · AI labelView post →@nevernotfunny.bsky.social a pickleball movie coming was mentioned in jest on todays episode with Bryan cook and there actually is a movie coming out called The Dink that was written by Sean Clements from the Hollywood Handbook podcast
neutral · AI labelView post →OH MR. MCENROE I DON'T FEEL SO GOOD This month on Three Star Special, we watched The Dink (2026), a movie about season 11 of American Idol. Available now to all patrons: www.patreon.com/postgameofth...
neutral · AI labelView post →I watched a movie! #34 🇺🇸 The Dink 2026 (Apple) I’ve always liked Jake Johnson & Mary Steenburgen and they were a great pair in this. I didn’t know Aaron Chen but he was really funny too. Exactly what I was looking for in a comedy! Would definitely recommend.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched THE DINK (2026) with my parents last night, and it's a good Watch With Your Parents movie. Produced by Ben Stiller (who has a small, but funny, cameo) and starring Jake Johnson as a pretty impressive cast including Ed Harris and Mary Steemburgen, it's one of those sports comedies...
positive · AI labelView post →The Dink is a hilarious movie and I love it.
positive · AI labelView post →Yesterday was a very good day for me on Apple TV. Season finale of Silo delivered just what I was hoping for & I love that next season is the last, not some drawn out nonsense. Then I watched The Dink & such a genuinely funny & well written movie. Fair play. #AmWatching #TV #AppleTV
positive · AI labelView post →I’m watching every movie (not really). The Dink feels like someone dusted off the blueprint for an old Adam Sandler sports comedy and decided to make it about pickleball. I wrote about it here: everythingnotreally.com/2026/08/24/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Unsolicited #movie recommendation: The Dink on Apple+. It's a bit of a formulaic sports comedy, but still quite fun. Nice to see Mary Steenburgen again.
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