Starring: Robert De Niro, Zac Efron Zoey Deutch, Aubrey Plaza, Dermot Mulroney
Directed By: Dan Mazer
Running Time: 102 mins
BBFC Certificate: 15
UK Release Date: January 28th 2016

This film won’t be for everyone’s tastes and ultimately made me question what Robert De Niro is doing with his career. I reviewed this film with the mind-set that it would be another standard American college sex comedy, and as such I was in full American Pie (1999) mode as I watched it. More so expecting a hormonal comedy full of crude jokes, but not involving a personal interaction with a fruit-based dessert.

Dirty Grandpa tells the ‘wholesome’ story of Dick Kelly (De Niro), a recent widower who tricks his grandson, Jason Kelly (Zac Efron), into driving him down to Daytona beach for spring break, so that they can spend some quality family time together and so that Dick can get his end away.

To flesh it out a bit more Jason is uptight, works for a law firm and is about to get married to the wrong woman. As such Dick wants to liberate his oppressed grandson, reinvigorate Jason’s lost free spirit and forgotten desire to be a photographer, but the story doesn’t really matter in a film like this as it is just an excuse to set up lots of bland set pieces and poor jokes. [Read more…]