Dirty Grandpa
Warning: This post contains some spoilers.
The great thing about this movie is that you get to see Zefron (that's Zac Efron for those of you who don't know) in a more serious character, at least for a little while. This is, however, your typical R-rated comedy, although it felt maybe a little more subdued. Or maybe I was distracted by Zefron...it's hard to say. What I can say is that I never expected to see Robert De Niro in a movie like this. I'm used to his light comedic acting...this took it to a whole new level.
Zac Efron plays a young man only days away from marriage, Jason, who is roped into taking his recently-widowed grandfather, Dick, to Florida. He is uptight and nervous, and his fiancé never stops breathing down his neck about all of the things he needs to do. And it turns out that his grandpa really just wants to party, and wants his grandson to participate in the fun. Well actually, the grandpa's real goal is to have as much sex as he can...that's an R-rated plot if I've ever heard one.
As must always happen with this movie, there's a twist: when the men stop at a diner, they run into a group of 3 friends, one of whom was a girl Jason had a photography class with, Shadia. She brings out the free-spirited artist in him that he had long pushed down to become the successful lawyer that his family was so proud of. Shadia's friend, Lenore, falls for Dick's lie that he is a professor and she invites him to come to their spring break destination because she really wants to have sex with a professor.
See where this is going? It's hard not to. There is a lot of drinking and drug use involved, and Jason ends up in some questionable situations which he desperately tries to hide from his family. But in the end he learns to let go, falls for Shadia, and dumps his fiancé. Dick and Lenore end up together, and (creepily) end up having a child together, which only ever seems to happen in ridiculous R-rated comedies.
Why am I bringing up the rating so much? Because this movie is everything that the rating represents. R has become its own genre.
Despite its predictable content and storyline, I enjoyed this more than some of the other, similar films we watched (you may remember from one of my posts so many months ago that this was part of a weekend-long movie marathon - mostly R movies - with my best friend and sister). There was some unnecessary over-exaggerated humour, as expected, but the characters were actually pretty well-developed considering. Shadia was more real than some of the women in these sorts of comedies, like Lenore. The cast was definitely this movie's strongest point. You can never go wrong with putting Aubrey Plaza in a move, especially a comedy. The same goes for Zefron. And I always enjoy a good Robert De Niro role, even if it is inappropriate. Seriously, I'd rather not think of him as someone's grandpa, despite the movie's title.
The great thing about this movie is that you get to see Zefron (that's Zac Efron for those of you who don't know) in a more serious character, at least for a little while. This is, however, your typical R-rated comedy, although it felt maybe a little more subdued. Or maybe I was distracted by Zefron...it's hard to say. What I can say is that I never expected to see Robert De Niro in a movie like this. I'm used to his light comedic acting...this took it to a whole new level.
Zac Efron plays a young man only days away from marriage, Jason, who is roped into taking his recently-widowed grandfather, Dick, to Florida. He is uptight and nervous, and his fiancé never stops breathing down his neck about all of the things he needs to do. And it turns out that his grandpa really just wants to party, and wants his grandson to participate in the fun. Well actually, the grandpa's real goal is to have as much sex as he can...that's an R-rated plot if I've ever heard one.
As must always happen with this movie, there's a twist: when the men stop at a diner, they run into a group of 3 friends, one of whom was a girl Jason had a photography class with, Shadia. She brings out the free-spirited artist in him that he had long pushed down to become the successful lawyer that his family was so proud of. Shadia's friend, Lenore, falls for Dick's lie that he is a professor and she invites him to come to their spring break destination because she really wants to have sex with a professor.
See where this is going? It's hard not to. There is a lot of drinking and drug use involved, and Jason ends up in some questionable situations which he desperately tries to hide from his family. But in the end he learns to let go, falls for Shadia, and dumps his fiancé. Dick and Lenore end up together, and (creepily) end up having a child together, which only ever seems to happen in ridiculous R-rated comedies.
Why am I bringing up the rating so much? Because this movie is everything that the rating represents. R has become its own genre.
Despite its predictable content and storyline, I enjoyed this more than some of the other, similar films we watched (you may remember from one of my posts so many months ago that this was part of a weekend-long movie marathon - mostly R movies - with my best friend and sister). There was some unnecessary over-exaggerated humour, as expected, but the characters were actually pretty well-developed considering. Shadia was more real than some of the women in these sorts of comedies, like Lenore. The cast was definitely this movie's strongest point. You can never go wrong with putting Aubrey Plaza in a move, especially a comedy. The same goes for Zefron. And I always enjoy a good Robert De Niro role, even if it is inappropriate. Seriously, I'd rather not think of him as someone's grandpa, despite the movie's title.
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