The War With Grandpa

Hollywood family entertainment at its most humdrum and stupefying - less a babysitter in motion picture form than an audio-visual bowl of Mogadon-laced Coco Pops.

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.

It could have been worse--it could have run for 100 minutes instead of 94.

It’s a family film about lessons without the burden of having any.

So much of The War with Grandpa feels utterly cheap. It plays more like a Disney Channel Original Movie that somehow got Robert De Niro and Uma Thurman to sign on. While the film didn’t work for me, it may keep younger kids entertained for the most part.

Fegley and his character miss it for me because of an innate selfishness in motivation, plus overall meanness to the story's pranks.