Would have been decent if not for side characters...

I actually really liked Efron and DeNiro. Mulroney was criminally underutilized in this and if this film really wanted some heart (which it tried to provide at times), the focus would have been on Efron, DeNiro, and Mulroney.

The girls were fine. Plaza was pretty damn funny in her role. The gay black guy served his purpose--I guess. I didn't care for the fiance, but she wasn't outright terrible.

However...what completely ruined this movie were the cousin played by Adam Pally, the two cops, and Pam 'the wacky drug dealer.'

Pally's scene with Efron at the beginning established him as completely unlikable. I guess he was supposed to be funny, but I found myself just wanting him off my screen. Every scene he's in goes on WAY too long and not a single joke of his lands. I just wanted him to get punched in the mouth. At the end it turns out he's screwing his cousin's fiance, too. So, ultimately, he doesn't care about respecting his dead grandmother's immediate family at her wake, he blows smoke into his cousin's face in front of her casket, he bangs his cousin's girlfriend--but nobody calls him out because he's 'wacky' and that's just how he is...I guess? It's awful. He's completely unlikable and it's more frustrating to watch him than amusing.

The two cops never say or do a single funny thing. I don't really have much to say except that I watched the unrated version and it felt like the scene in prison should have been cut down A LOT and I wonder if they didn't for the theatrical. It was like watching a reel of the two actors ad-lib--and it was utterly terrible. Cringe-inducing, but never funny.

The drug dealer seems like he's in every scene. Like the cops (who are apparently the only two cops in the entire state), he's everywhere. He's a DJ at a beach, he works in a store, he's selling drugs out of a truck, he's giving crack to random people at parties...he's EVERYWHERE. And not a single joke of his even remotely lands. Furthermore, the scene where he tases Mulroney for way too long kind of makes you wonder how DeNiro's character (who is in the military) would sit back while his son takes an excessive amount of volts to the chest and lands face first on the concrete afterwards. I know it's all for the lulz, but it sort of makes DeNiro's character look completely unsympathetic.

DeNiro should have been the wacky element of a sane world. He should have been the fun part of the movie to everyone else's relatively normal act. I mean, that's what makes movies like this fun. I always think of Crank--where Statham was the wild card--and it worked so well. Then in Crank 2 everything was wild and the movie just never entertained as much because it's no fun to watch a world where EVERYONE is just crazy as hell. It works much better when everyone plays the straight man (like Efron did) to the wild card--and the focus would have been on the grandpa (which was the point).

Ah, well. If you take out the other 'wacky' characters (who don't work at all), it was enjoyable.