The last time Robert De Niro pulled on his wacky comedy pants and starred in a film with "grandpa" in the title, the world was treated to Dirty Grandpa. So you can understand our trepidation in reporting that he's back on laugh-demanding ground with the slightly more family friendly The War With Grandpa, which has its first trailer online.
Here's the basic synopsis: "Sixth-grader Peter (Oakes Fegley) is pretty much your average kid; he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed (Robert De Niro) moves in with Peter's family, the boy is forced to give up his most prized possession of all, his bedroom. Unwilling to let such an injustice stand, Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the interloper, but Grandpa Ed won't go without a fight. Soon, the friendly combatants are engaged in an all-out war with side-splitting consequences." 'Side-splitting consequences'? We'll be the judge of that, thanks.
This does slightly have the air of a movie that was around in the 1980s and early 1990s (and there's even a Godfather spoof), but with the likes of Christopher Walken, Rob Riggle, Jane Seymour, Cheech Marin and even Uma Thurman giving it their all, we'll wait and see how this one shakes out. Feel free to make your star rating predictions on Twitter.
The War With Grandpa will be out in the US on 9 October ("in theaters", though that might have to wait and see what the pandemic situation is) before heading over here for a planned 16 October release.