You don’t have to hit hard to win pickleball - that’s the chief lesson to be taken from “The Dink,” a sports comedy titled for the dainty signature shot of the fast-growing racket sport, and it’s one that Josh Greenbaum’s film takes to heart with its own softball comic style.

"The Dink" is a sports comedy film starring Jake Johnson as a former tennis prodigy who discovers pickleball.

"I think part of what's so funny about it is, you know, how quickly something that starts very (much) as casual fun can become deeply competitive and also weirdly emotional," the 47-year-old director ...