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- DIRTY GRANDPA is bold and in-your-face lascivious, which is almost admirable, but it tries too hard to find laughter in mostly offensive material that's also dated and predictable. Have we time-traveled back to the 1980s, when movies like Porky's reigned supreme?
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Jan 22, 2016 · In my dream, “Dirty Grandpa” was spinning heads because it broached John Waters/Harmony Korine levels of outrageousness. The sex scenes between De Niro and Plaza had a “Last Tango In Paris” level of explicitness, for instance.
Jan 22, 2016 · Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Uptight lawyer Jason Kelly (Zac Efron) is one week away from marrying his boss's controlling daughter, putting him on the fast track for a partnership at his firm.
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- Dan Mazer
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- Robert De Niro
Vulgar but occasionally funny comedy gets pretty offensive. Read Common Sense Media's Dirty Grandpa review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Robert De Niro, Zac Efron, Julianne Hough
- Dan Mazer
- Lionsgate
Jan 22, 2016 · By Nick Schager. Courtesy of Lionsgate. When Robert De Niro receives his inevitable lifetime achievement Oscar, don’t expect his highlight reel to include a single clip from “ Dirty Grandpa...
- Robert De Niro thinks he is the grandfather Zac Efron needs right now.
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By Josh Lasser
Updated: Nov 24, 2018 7:05 pm
Posted: Jan 22, 2016 6:27 pm
Last September, Robert De Niro starred in The Intern. There, he played a kind, loving, older male role model. Whatever one thought of the film itself, De Niro's character was a good guy trying to embark on the next stage of his life. In Dirty Grandpa, De Niro is again playing someone moving on to the next stage in life, but you can probably cross out any other similarity with his Intern role.
Here, in this Dan Mazer-directed film, De Niro is Dick Kelly, and he is not a good guy. His son, David (Dermot Mulroney), is also not a good guy. Dick's grandson, Jason (Zac Efron), isn't necessarily bad so much as he's uptight. And, finally, Dick's soon to be granddaughter-in-law, Jason's fiancée, Meredith (Julianne Hough), is not a good woman.
All of these characters are established as bad people, presumably, so when degrading and terrible things happen to them, we in the audience will laugh as opposed to becoming depressed. It is poor Meredith who gets the worst of this, and does so right from the beginning. She is the most horrible sort of bridezilla and, during the funeral for Jason's grandmother, Dick's wife, Meredith is more concerned with the tie color (coral or salmon) that Jason will wear to the rehearsal dinner than she is with showing any semblance of compassion for her betrothed. From there, for Meredith, it's all downhill.
Dirty Grandpa is a mean-spirited comedy almost completely devoid of laughs. There is little to no logic applied to the situations in which the characters find themselves, and after the first five minutes no reason to care about any of it. The entire affair is little more than a couple of easy, unfunny jokes repeated for the length of the run time. ...
Jan 22, 2016 · Dan Mazer’s crude, mindless “Dirty Grandpa” is like watching a friend’s mediocre improv troupe do an extended spring-break sketch. And your friend just happens to be Robert De Niro.
Jan 22, 2016 · Dirty Grandpa - Metacritic. 2016. R. Lionsgate Films. 1 h 42 m. Summary Jason Kelly (Zac Efron) is one week away from marrying his boss’s uber-controlling daughter, putting him on the fast track for a partnership at the law firm. However, when the straight-laced Jason is tricked into driving his foul-mouthed grandfather, Dick (Robert De Niro ...
