{"id":20854,"date":"2016-05-31T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T04:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20854"},"modified":"2016-05-31T22:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:35:18","slug":"dirty-grandpa-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/dirty-grandpa-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Grandpa (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DirtyGrandpa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/DirtyGrandpa.jpg\" alt=\"DirtyGrandpa\" width=\"450\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting with DeNiro for \u201cDirty Grandpa\u201d: \u201cAnd so Efron comes to pick you up, and you\u2019re lying there on your recliner masturbating in the nude to interracial porn! He screams in horror while you\u2019re ejaculating, but you\u2019re so cool about it, that you barely acknowledge the awkwardness. The kids will love it!\u201d I appreciate that Robert DeNiro seems to be actively working against being typecast as some wise old grandpa or magical elderly sage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Too many older actors are being dropped in to grandparent roles and typical clich\u00e9s, so DeNiro seems to be pushing against those pigeon holes. It\u2019s too bad he\u2019s working so hard against that type that he\u2019s slumming it in complete nonsense like \u201cDirty Grandpa.\u201d This is a film that\u2019s so beneath DeNiro. Hell, it\u2019s so beneath Zac Efron that it\u2019s absolutely pathetic. Efron plays uptight lawyer Jason who is being pulled at all corners to pursue a law career and get married to his very rigid bride to be. When Jason is sent to deliver his newly widowed grandfather Dick to Florida, he\u2019s shocked to discover his quiet and meek grandfather is actually loud, crude, foul mouthed, and sexually starved.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Jason\u2019s protests, Dick drags his uptight grandson across the country to go to Daytona Beach and party while Dick is still able to. All the while Jason realizes he may not be as happy with his buttoned down life as he thought. Their assorted misadventures involve drug use, a lot of sexual humor, and some painfully unfunny scenes that Efron just doesn\u2019t have the comedic chops to handle. It\u2019s almost like someone drew a raffle and paired these two completely different actors together to deliver what is a hundred minutes of pure comedy sewage. Efron and DeNiro have zero chemistry with one another.<\/p>\n<p>Efron\u2019s more reserved performance chugs behind DeNiro\u2019s more charismatic and adrenaline fueled turn as this seventy something widow desperate to party and have as much sex as possible. Another minor consolation is the performance by Aubrey Plaza who isn\u2019t just sexy, but also delivers some really sharp one-liners. I\u2019m all for bad taste comedy but \u201cDirty Grandpa\u201d goes one step over the line and almost make a sport out of being painful, unfunny, and disgusting. But hey if you want to see DeNiro shout words like \u201cPussy,\u201d \u201cLabia\u201d and \u201cDildo\u201d every five seconds, \u201cDirty Grandpa\u201d might just right up your alley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting with DeNiro for \u201cDirty Grandpa\u201d: \u201cAnd so Efron comes to pick you up, and you\u2019re lying there on your recliner masturbating in the nude to interracial porn! He screams in horror while you\u2019re ejaculating, but you\u2019re so cool about it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71,219,225,249,340,851,853],"class_list":["post-20854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-comedy","tag-coming-of-age","tag-d","tag-family","tag-road-trip","tag-robert-deniro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20862,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20854\/revisions\/20862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}