Dirty Grandpa (2016) – Movie Review

<p>The reason I jumped on reviewing <em>Dirty Grandpa<&sol;em>&comma; was that it has Robert De Niro in it and well&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s freaking awesome&period; Also and I never thought I&&num;8217&semi;d say this&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;m starting to become a Zac Efron fan as I catch more of his films&period; So&comma; seeing them both team up to do something called <em>Dirty Grandpa<&sol;em> did trip my curiosity&period; Once I saw the trailer and got an idea of what I was in for&comma; I was actually looking forward to watching it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132818" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132818" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132818 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;31200355&sol;Dirty-Grandpa-2016-still-1-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132818" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">BillBlock Media&comma; Dirty Grandpa<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Dirty Grandpa<&sol;em> is a comedy with a hundred and two-minute runtime&period; It was directed by Dan Mazer and written by John Philips&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s rated R for language and nudity&period; As far as the story goes&comma; here&&num;8217&semi;s what you&&num;8217&semi;re getting into&period; Jason&&num;8217&semi;s wedding is a week away and there is still a lot to do&period; Unfortunately&comma; Jason&&num;8217&semi;s grandmother just passed away&comma; so when his grandpa Dick asks him to drive him to Florida how could he say no&period; Before Jason knows it&comma; a simple road trip turns into a Spring break fueled crazy adventure and&&num;8230&semi; grandpa&&num;8217&semi;s having a blast&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you like crude and twisted humor&&num;8230&semi; then you&&num;8217&semi;re going to love this one&excl; Now&comma; the story also has character development and personal journeys where characters grow and learn from each other&comma; but for the most part&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s about a grandpa trying to catch up on what he&&num;8217&semi;s missed out on after 40 years of marriage&period; So basically&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re looking at 70 minutes of drinking and debauchery while grandpa&&num;8217&semi;s trying to get his groove back&period; As sick as that sounds&comma; I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t stop laughing the entire time&period; Like I said Phillips does throw in some &&num;8220&semi;depth&&num;8221&semi; to the story&period; We get life lessons like do you play life safe or take a chance and go for happiness&quest; We get hit with the reminder that we may not always know everything about someone&comma; even if they are family&period; So&comma; spend the time you have to get to know them&period; And I personally learned&comma; no matter how much I love my family&comma; there are just somethings I don&&num;8217&semi;t ev-er want to know about them&&num;8230&semi; or their habits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132819" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132819" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132819 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;31200438&sol;Dirty-Grandpa-2016-still-2-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132819" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">BillBlock Media&comma; Dirty Grandpa<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The playthrough was great&period; Between the jokes and the sight gags&comma; there&&num;8217&semi;s always a laugh waiting for you around the next corner&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a couple of scenes with De Niro that &lpar;are forever&rpar; burned into my brain and I could have gone a lifetime without seeing&comma; but the trauma was well worth the experience because I haven&&num;8217&semi;t laughed that hard in awhile&period; Aside from the life lessons&comma; the main characters learn as they go&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s about as serious as we get from this one&period; This one is just an excuse to make a film that&&num;8217&semi;s fun to watch and is full of laughs with over exaggerated situations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of the cast is Robert De Niro &lpar;<em>Taxi Driver<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Zac Efron &lpar;<em>That Awkward Moment<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Zoey Deutch &lpar;<em>Why Him&quest;<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Julianne Hough &lpar;<em>Rock of Ages<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Aubrey Plaza &lpar;<em>Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman &lpar;<em>The Skinny<&sol;em>&rpar;&comma; Dermot Mulroney &lpar;<em>My Best Friends Wedding<&sol;em>&rpar; and Jason Mantzoukas &lpar;<em>They Came Together<&sol;em>&rpar;&period; The cast did a really good job&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know if I&&num;8217&semi;ve ever seen De Niro play a character like this&comma; but from beginning to end&comma; he was great&period; De Niro&&num;8217&semi;s character is verbally brutal to anyone standing within range of him&period; Be it with his &lpar;constant&rpar; gay and sexual comments or maybe it&&num;8217&semi;ll be his constant use of foul langue&period; Yet&comma; underneath that ruff exterior&comma; De Niro&&num;8217&semi;s character is also a caring grandfather trying to look out for his grandson&comma; just in a VERY unorthodox way&period; As Efron continues to do more comedic roles&comma; the more I find I like him&period; In this one&comma; Efron plays a great straight-laced character and is a good balance to De Niro&&num;8217&semi;s wild character&period; Efron and De Niro played great off of each other and they had a nice chemistry between them that showed on screen&period; I was surprised to see how little Dermot Mulroney was used in the film&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s a really good actor&comma; but here Mulroney is such a bit player&comma; just like a few other well-known faces in the cast&period; They pop in drop a few lines and you may or may not see them again&comma; like Glover&period; The lack of screen time from those people didn&&num;8217&semi;t hurt the film&comma; I just wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have minded seeing them a bit more was all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;132820" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-132820" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-132820 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;12&sol;31200601&sol;Dirty-Grandpa-2016-still-3-1024x638&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"623" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-132820" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">BillBlock Media&comma; Dirty Grandpa<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Side note&colon; For all those that have seen this one already and thought it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t dirty enough&comma; on May 17th &lpar;2016&rpar; the DVD and Blu-ray hit stores and apparently the Blu-ray will feature an unrated version of the film along with other extras&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Overall&comma; if you&&num;8217&semi;re needing a dose of twisted humor&comma; then it&&num;8217&semi;s worth catching&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;