The Dink review – pickleball comedy serves up engagingly silly laughs

Jake Johnson is delusional ex-tennis player The Hammer, who has to switch to the sport he loathes after injury There’s some funny stuff here in this engagingly silly sports comedy from producer-star Jake Johnson about the world of pickleball, and how this (allegedly) facile pseudo-tennis game for children and old people threatens to infantilise and dumb down the world of tennis itself. Dusty (Johnson) is a middle-aged loser, delusionally nicknamed The Hammer, who once showed early promise at…