The funniest part of ” An American Pickle ” isn’t even really in the movie. It’s a little scene in the middle of the credits in which Seth Rogen’s Herschel Greenbaum, a 1920s laborer who wakes up 100 ...

You remember those! They were big in the 1980s, when they could be spry and witty and nearly classical in their cleverness (“Splash,” “Back to the Future”), but were more often obvious (“Mr. Mom,” ...