O
K, let’s first address the elephant in the room: does anyone want to see Robert De Niro in another movie with ‘Grandpa’ in the title? “Bob told me he doesn’t care what the critics said about
Dirty Grandpa,”
laughs director Tim Hill. “He doesn’t have any regrets. People were offended seeing this icon doing bawdy scenes, but he’s not afraid of anything. He does not try to protect his brand like some actors: ‘Oh, I would never do that, I’m Robert De Niro...’”
RAISING ELF Fegley and De Niro find themselves in a quickly escalating conflict of prankery.
ENTERTAINMENT
And so we now have the erstwhile Travis Bickle playing a curmudgeonly critter who moves into the bedroom of his grandson (Pete’s Dragon’s Oakes Fegley), only for the peed-off lad to try and get rid of him by playing all manner of practical stunts. But the wily grandpa fights back...