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“If Dirty Grandpa isn’t the worst movie of 2016,” wrote critic Richard Roeper, “I have some serious cinematic torture in my future.” Roeper can rest easy because this misfire has 2016 sewn up, no small feat in a year that includes The Do-Over and Fifty Shades Of Black.

Badly misjudged on every level, the movie mistakes its constant stream of profanity and sex references for wit so often that it’s difficult to find a single moment to highlight. Perhaps the scene where Zac Efron speaks to his Jewish girlfriend, unaware someone has drawn a swastika on his forehead? How about the moment when 32 year-old Aubrey Plaza and 73 year-old Robert De Niro have a child, and De Niro shows off his son’s wedding tackle?

Scratch the phallocentric humour, and there really isn’t much else you can say about Dirty Grandpa. The funniest thing about the movie is that the supporting cast includes Jason Mantzoukas, who co-hosts a Bad Movie podcast called How Did This Get Made?