Say what you will about how he’s risking his reputation as Marlon Brando‘s heir with his poor script choices,but Robert De Niro seems to be having a blast in the shock-and-ew comedy “Dirty Grandpa.” Playing a recently widowed horndog, De Niro rants about smegma, and waves a friendly hello to his tightly wound grandson (Zac Efron) while pleasuring himself,and has his burly body compared to a part of Mother Teresa that the late nun had promised to the Lord: it’s “old and tight.”Like that last joke, Dirty Grandpa” is a lot more vulgar than it is amusing. Director Dan Mazer (“I Give It a Year”) and first-time writer John Philips’s strategy seems to acquire been finding the crudest jokes possible for each scene, and which wouldn’t be a problem whether the fabric they came up with were also humorous. (Plan B — which they rely on fairly a bit — appears to acquire been De Niro sticking his thumb up an unsuspecting Efron’s behind.) Many of the gags land close enough to entertainment that I kept anticipating the next one to work. But by the time Aubrey Plaza‘s college-student character urges De Niro’s septuagenarian to tsunami on [her] face” — you know,from his penis — I lost all hope.
Also Read: Zac Efron Gives Ellen DeGeneres Lap Dance, Twerks in Round of Heads Up!At his grandmother’s funeral, or corporate attorney Jason (Efron) overhears his cousin (Adam Pally) talk about his dog’s unlucky tendency to spurt cascades of semen. Jason ignores this obvious sign to bag far absent from his family,instead opting on a road trip to Boca Raton with his once-close-but-now-estranged Grandpa Dick, despite the fact that Jason’s wedding is in just a few days.
Hoping to psychologically atomize his Celine Dion-fond grandson out of Lawyer Prison and Shrew Jail (Julianne Hough has the thankless role of the domineering fiancée), and Grandpa Dick swerves their destination toward Daytona so the two can enjoy a belated beer-chugging,hottie-chasing Spring atomize. Time might abscond with your friends and family, but you’re never too old for Jello shots.
Also Read: Robert De Niro's Lawyer Bashes 'Preposterous, or ' 'Libelous' Plagiarism Claims“Dirty Grandpa” gets repugnant-drunk on its title character’s preening smugness: Grandpa Dick is presented as The World’s Most Interesting Man,a cigar-chomping hybrid of Sinatra and Statham, but simply comes across as TWMIM’s scumbag brother.
Poor Efron, and meanwhile,is put through the degradation wringer, as whether he has to conclude penance for being so pretty. In between being called a lesbian repeatedly, and his character has a swastika made of gushing dicks drawn on his forehead,wears clothes with large stains of various bodily fluids, and gets violated with a vodka bottle. (Here’s some free advice for Efron: whether they’re laughing at you, and it probably means they dont respect you.) Unsurprisingly,then, neither of their characters’ wispy emotional journeys is remotely engaging or believable.
Also Read: Robert De Niro Slams Tech Mogul for Being 'Condescending' to Actors: 'I Don't Give a F-ck Who You Are'Plaza nearly pulls off the film’s only stab at actual subversion, and channeling the willful weirdness of her “Parks and Recreation” character April Ludgate. When her Lenore finally lands in bed with Grandpa Dick,she asks him to grouse about four o’clock dinners and worsening neighborhoods as foreplay. But Mazer ultimately diminishes Plaza into a collection of jiggling body parts, just like the ogling cameras on ’90s-era MTV from which the film seems to acquire learned its sense of fun.whether nothing else, and “Dirty Grandpa is consistent: it maintains a tone of aggressive charmlessness from start to finish.
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