The Over the Hill Band

Like Stephen Walker's delicate nonfiction portrait "Young@Heart," it's a genuine heart-tugger about senior citizens rediscovering their youth by singing pop music; like Craig Brewer's crowdpleasing "Hustle & Flow," it sympathizes with a struggling rap artist without glossing over his flaws.

Despite the silly-sounding premise, it's a wistful, bittersweet meditation on aging and death.

Enthoven and his screenwriters walk a fine line between celebrating the vitality of the elderly and asking us to laugh at their youthful affectations, twice embarrassing his three septuagenarians by forcing them to sing along to Technotronic's "Pump Up the Jam."

It's also sugary and has a silly tear-jerker ending. But I found myself laughing at the film's gentle humor, anyway.

Calculated Belgian crowd-pleaser.

This drippy dramedy embraces every inappropriate-oldster cliché with depressing calculation.