The War With Grandpa

It depends on your tolerance for watching Robert De Niro flash people.

It's the kind of film that seems to vanish from the mind even as you're watching it.

barely passable piffle

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

Robert De Niro has made his share of nearly-unwatchable comedies so, although it's tempting to say The War with Grandpa is the worst, I can't say that definitively.

The fact that The War with Grandpa finally dragged itself off from the shelf is something of a win but now that we're able to see it, the real loser is us.

A "comedy for the whole family" assumes adults want De Niro and Riggle sharing multiple scenes where the latter reacts convulsively to Grandpa's accidentally exposed penis.

Another pleasing, undemanding feather-light Robert De Niro comedy and yet another example where you survey the reviews after seeing the film and wonder if everybody else saw a different version. It's an unassuming, straight up-and-down family comedy.

You can find this frivolous, if forgettable family comedy - filled with childish, slapstick pranks - at Redbox now...

Consistently terrible.