Movies like Dirty Grandpa

“Dirty Grandpa (2016) is a 2010s road-comedy that mounts a handheld visual strategy to dramatize a straight-laced heir’s clash with his grandfather’s hedonistic spring-break imperative. The film configures its core conflict as intergenerational opposition and renders it through fast-cut pacing, practical lighting, and tight mise-en-scène so that comic escalation doubles as character pressure. Lupani’s reading: the picture weaponizes lowbrow spectacle to expose how late-capital comedies commodify rites of passage into marketable transgression.”