“An American Pickle” is a comedy that connects you to something so old world that it seems, at times, to be an artifact of prehistory. No, I’m not talking about Herschel Greenbaum (Seth…
), a glumly bearded Orthodox Jewish ditch digger from 1919 who escapes the Cossacks by emigrating from Schlupsk to New York City, where he finds work in a pickle factory and ends up tumbling into a vat of briny cucumbers — only to wake up, 100 years later, like Rip Van Winkle crossed with Tevye. There’s no denying that Herschel, with his peasant rags, his beady-eyed glower, and his Yiddish accent as thick as a knish, is a dusty relic of a character.
Rogen, in addition to playing Herschel, also portrays Herschel’s great-grandson, Ben Greenbaum, a freelance mobile app developer in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. As a character, Ben is a collection of dweebish millennial signifiers: He wears ugly hipster aviator frames, keeps his fridge stocked with kombucha and pea milk, and thinks he’s cool when he dances to Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs singing “Stay.
Apart from Sarah Snook’s presence as Sarah, the woman Herschel woos and marries in the film’s 9-minute prologue, the only real characters in “An American Pickle” are Herschel and Ben. And that, frankly, is a lot of Seth Rogen for any one movie. The two visit the Brooklyn cemetery where Sarah is buried, only to learn that there’s now an elevated highway and an ugly billboard built right over it. And that’s when Herschel’s old-world intolerance boils over.
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