Dirty Grandpa

A strait-laced, dull young lawyer (Zac Efron) reluctantly agrees to drive his recently widowed grandfather (Robert De Niro) to Florida for spring break—ostensibly to bond and complete the grieving process, but really to get Grandpa laid by some obliging college girl. Nonstop partying, drug use, vandalism and kinky sex ensue. De Niro, with nothing left to prove, has wasted his talent on some pretty unworthy movies in the last few years, but he’s never made one as shoddy or as thoroughly inept as this. Almost nobody has. John Phillips’ script is moronic, Dan Mazer’s direction is beyond sloppy; the movie is ugly in every sense of the word (shame on cinematographer Eric Alan Edwards, too). It never rises to the level of garbage. Already we have the worst movie of the year—and maybe next year as well. J.L.