DIRTY GRANDPA .... when age gets you wiser

Who said that getting older means to settle and forget how to have fun? Why we made it up that way, when instead of using age as an excuse for experience supposed to be boring and lack of sexiness? It's hard to point where we got lost to only aloud young people to have fun and enjoy life including partying and having sex while at the same time they have been targeted as immoral and rebels for such behavior when its us who encourage that since the beginning showing youth as a sin and sum of all excesses and claiming their lack of experience and overdose of hormones while the elder get just only boring futures playing chess and using diapers while looking old and miserable. we as society keep putting labels in every generation while we keep making fun of them as we start realizing of all the irony on it but why young people can't be boring and old could be fun? Age has never been a restriction for fun and keep trying new things or a test of when should we start instead of just jumping on it.

This is when we break the rules and as a result we get "Dirty Grandpa" (2015), a new comedy starring by Robert De Niro and Zac Efron and grandpa and grandson in very oposite sides of the line. The young grand son is focus on his career in his father lawyer firm and after been engage with the perfect girl, at least for everybody but him, he has to realize who he really is and what he wants instead of what the others are looking and deciding for him. He plays his own life as a puppet and as a sad as it looks it's hard to admit that many guys even these days are still playing a role that has been designed for them since the day were born. Why do we follow all this rules and paths that our family or people we care about wants us to follow. Why we need to become this person that everybody expects but ourselves. We all have our own dreams and ideals but how many of us get to achieve them or at least pursue them, trying to follow your own dreams just to get lost half way to feel like wasting time when others judge us.

That's where the old man comes to the picture. A recently widow man that had a successful marriage but now that faces being singe again in a point of his life where theres not much to hold on and when no body cares about him and his decisions anymore, using this as the perfect excuse to ask his grand son to join him in a road trip to take him back home. But the simple request turns into any spring break adventure as the old mas only seems to care about behaving like a youngster doing drugs and trying to have sex for one last time, a hook up that will bring him that excitement that a marriage life overshadow. He is a retired soldier that has been trough a lot, including being away from his own family, losing the opportunity to rise their own kids so now that faces what seems to be the last years of his life or at least the last ones as a capable individual, he only cares about spending this kind of quality time to get to know this kid that seems like a copy of all the failures he did with his own son, so pushing him to loose it a bit and have fun, forgetting about his future wedding and embrace being young and capable to have fun and try new things while they start meeting new people and very interesting characters that obviously will challenge them.

In some point we'll realize the real intentions of this old man for his grand son, where all this stupid actions have actually the real intention of making him break the rules and realize how lost he is and go back on track to try to figure out his life the way he always wanted. The plot might sound familiar and not very original, but when we are about to witness all the craziness behind an old grand father to spend time to help his grand son to find the right path for him by pushing him through sex and parties and meeting all these young generation that can bring his real identity instead of the costume he has created. Same way as simple as all these sounds the jokes and gags are not very original but edgy, trying to test our limits and patience as audience looking for a smart sense of humor getting only goofiness and slap jokes that make us wonder what would have been if the same plot has turnes into targeting a more mature audience instead of the same jocks is making fun of.

At the end what really matters is the resolution and even the movie is that predictable that we realize how will it end after just five minutes into it, but sadly when we try to realize how easy could be for all these people that are living a life that others want for them and sometimes unconscious and others totally aware of it, to just shut everybody out and actually start fighting for their own dreams and desires, using sex and fun as a way to achieve them, learning from experiences the same way yo enjoy them and realizing that fun doesn't mean get wasted and act like an idiot. That being funny doesn't mean act like stupid but be mature enough to try new things and smart enough to have the best sex of our lives with heart and soul instad of pot and alcohol.