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

| Original Score: C | Aug 19, 2023

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

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 3, 2022

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.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 20, 2022

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

| Jul 19, 2021

Beyond an inevitably sentimental and conciliatory closure, what is striking is the absolute lack of charisma, charm and fluidity for what is ultimately a quickly forgettable comedy. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 15, 2021

I experienced battle fatigue.

| Apr 22, 2021

[An]ungainly, ugly, depressing hybridisation of a playful family dramedy and over-the-top physical humor.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 27, 2021

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2021

You can't say The War With Grandpa is terrific, but it has its moments - and it's likely to entertain the kids for an hour and a half.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 21, 2021

A harmless family film but the movie lover in me couldn't help but cringe just a bit watching The Deer Hunter co-stars De Niro and Walken return to battle against a bunch of tweens.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 29, 2021

The film attempts to check all the boxes of a children's comedy, but fails to make a connection. They are the shells of these archetypes without making them novel in any way.

| Jan 28, 2021

A "comedy for the whole family" assumes adults want De Niro and Riggle sharing multiple scenes where the latter reacts convulsively to Grandpa's accidentally exposed penis.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 14, 2021

Another pleasing, undemanding feather-light Robert De Niro comedy and yet another example where you survey the reviews after seeing the film and wonder if everybody else saw a different version. It's an unassuming, straight up-and-down family comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2021

You can find this frivolous, if forgettable family comedy - filled with childish, slapstick pranks - at Redbox now...

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 27, 2020

Consistently terrible.

| Dec 22, 2020

The War with Grandpa is the type of film which is not really a great watch and throughout you are thinking you that you have seen a film exactly like this before. And you wonder why you are watching it again as you did not really enjoy it the first time.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 17, 2020

This holiday season, if you're burnt out on watching the Home Alone movies for the ten billionth time, The War with Grandpa will nicely satisfy.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 16, 2020

There won't be much of anything amusing to be detected while this formulaic old-coot-versus-young-brat affair goes about its very average business.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2020

The War with Grandpa is one battle where there are no ultimate winners.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 1, 2020

Tim Hill (Alvin and the Chipmunks) directs with irregularity. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 30, 2020