{"id":85639,"date":"2020-10-09T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/another-forgettable-robert-de-niro-comedy\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:21:31","slug":"another-forgettable-robert-de-niro-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/another-forgettable-robert-de-niro-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"#Another forgettable Robert De Niro comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Another forgettable Robert De Niro comedy<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Who knew a dodgeball game<\/a> between Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Cheech Marin, Jane Seymour and a bunch of rowdy kids could be so bland?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s one of many beige scenes in the new comedy \u201cThe War With Grandpa,\u201d a film that\u2019s both by-the-book and based on a book, in which a preteen boy gets back at his grandfather for moving into his room.<\/p>\n

That could have been an emotionally involving tussle. At one end, you have a young man, Peter (Oakes Fegley), who is just starting to gain his independence \u2014 represented by the almighty lockable bedroom \u2014 and at the other, a man in his 70s, Ed (De Niro), whose autonomy is slipping away. Neither really has genuine freedom.<\/p>\n

This film dips its toes into that idea, but mostly goes gung-ho for recycled old-folks jokes and tame pranks.<\/p>\n

Peter formally declares war on Ed in the manner of our founding fathers: \u201cWhen in the course of human events one person steals another person\u2019s bedroom, there is no other choice but war,\u201d he writes to gramps. \u201cYou have 24 hours to give me back what is mine or face the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cheech Marin, Robert De Niro, Jane Seymour and Christopher Walken in a scene from \u201cThe War With Grandpa.\u201d<\/span>Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His punishment is a series<\/a> of high jinks that \u201cHome Alone\u201d would balk at. Peter sends a remote-controlled toy car with a loud radio attached to wake Ed, puts a rash-causing skin irritant in his shaving cream and tries other such annoyances that aren\u2019t funny. Director Tim Hill\u2019s style throughout is Zen calm, and nothing is jubilant or upsetting, like an Enya song.<\/p>\n

Naturally, in nice family movies, kids don\u2019t stay angry at their grandparents for too long, so gradually the duo de-escalates the skirmish and begins bonding. Peter\u2019s mom is played by Uma Thurman, but that doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe War With Grandpa\u201d is part of a genre of films that takes legendary actors and practically sands down their edges and ensures they don\u2019t make a strong impression (\u201cBook Club,\u201d \u201cPoms\u201d). I expect that sort of drudgery from De Niro (for every \u201cIrishman,\u201d he makes 10 \u201cDirty Grandpa\u201ds), but it\u2019s a shame from Walken and Marin, men so recognizable they should be on postage stamps. Here they\u2019re shells of themselves. And Seymour, who\u2019s gorgeous as ever, has been unrealistically cast as a supermarket clerk and the film doesn\u2019t even make a gag out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cGrandpa\u201d is, at least, not as moronic as much of De Niro\u2019s recent r\u00e9sum\u00e9. But that\u2019s a low, low bar.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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