Undercover Grandpa

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"Jake Bouchard" (Dylan Everett) is a typical 17-year old high school student who finally gathers enough courage to ask a girl named "Angie" (Greta Onieogou) out on a date. Needless to say, he is delighted when she agrees. Not long afterward, however, he is told by his mother that his presence is required at home for the bi-weekly family dinner with his grandfather "Lou" (James Caan) who resides at the local nursing home. To make matters even more exasperating, Lou also has a history of telling outlandish stories about working as a secret agent which cause everybody to think he has gone senile. Be that as it may, left with few options he tells Angie that he will meet her at the party. However, as he is driving his grandfather back to the nursing home, Jake gets a call from Angie telling him that her car broke down in a bad part of town and asks him if he can swing by and pick her up. But when they finally arrive Angie is nowhere to be seen and it's then that Lou immediately suspects that she has been kidnapped. Naturally, Jake thinks his grandfather is going crazy again but changes his mind when Lou uncovers certain clues to support his theory. From that point on Lou takes charge and the first thing he does is to round up some of his old friends who worked with him in many of his clandestine missions. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film started out well enough but the plot soon became a bit too tired and clichéd to the point that not even a veteran cast which included Louis Gossett Jr. (as "Mother"), Jessica Walter ("Maddie Harcourt"), Kenneth Welsh ("Harry") and Paul Sorvino ("Giovanni") could save it. That being said, while this film wasn't necessarily bad, it's not something that I would highly recommend and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

Jake Bouchard gets a date with his crush Angie Wagner. He has to cancel it for his visiting grandpa (James Caan) and his annoying outlandish war stories. The family thinks he's delusional. Angie goes missing and grandpa thinks it's a kidnapping. Using his military intelligence skills, he and the kid search for the missing girl. Secret agent Maddie Harcourt (Jessica Walter) claims that grandpa is actually delusional and his stories are fantasies. After escaping, they recruit grandpa's old crew. The premise could be fun and there are certainly great old timers in the cast. There isn't enough flash and fun. This should be much sillier. It takes a little too long to get to the old geezers. The entire crew could be living in a secret agent old age home and they can be introduced early on when the family visits. That would give them more time to build chemistry. This needs to be fun and that's sorely missing. This great cast should have better material. The jokes aren't funny and all we're left with is a bunch of doddering old men. The kids are fine if somewhat uninspired. I want better for this cast.

This movie was actually better then I expected. Pacing was good, the cast was great, and had decent amount of laughs. I personally felt that if bigger company had picked this title up and gave it big budget it could became a massive cult classic. It almost felt even below a b-movie all to often. Everything was just cheap feeling and visuals were horrible. The action was also very choppy as well, instead helping the movie out it heavily detracted from it. Overall still is decent flick and would recommend if you're someone whos not super hard to please.

Quite cheesy. Somewhat predictable. But I've always been a fan of James Caan. A great bit of adventure, action and comedy. Not to mention some really awesome unexpected actors showing up and adding to the story.

Not quite funny enough to justify the utterly ridiculous plot, but well-presented with top actors for a tension-free diversion worth the watch.

I see a lot of bad reviews here, I don't understand why you would choose to insult the participants in the production based on their age, especially considering that was part of the comedic plot line. Are people really that shallow now? It just goes to show you what a cruel world our children are rapidly devolving into. Anyway, I enjoyed this movie, I mean...REALLY REALLY REALLY enjoyed it. It was very well done, and it was great watching James Caan and a stellar cast again, especially with Lou Gossett Jr. As far as the production, I didn't find anything wrong with it, all the action sequences, camera angles, effects and dialogue was great. If a movie actually makes a tear come to my eye, it wins big, and this one did. Bravo!

The lead boy in this film looks like a cross between Justin Bieber and a young Zach Efron. That being said, this film is somewhat derivative and acted with weak aplomb by a bunch of actors who were probably just subsidising their social security cheques. The direction is pedestrian at best and they should have invested some money in special effects makeup for Jessica Walters. There is a reason she does mostly voice overs these days.

Well, I saw De Niro's Grandpa and found it awful. Right now, I thought "this one cannot be worst, it should be better". Ouch. Leave Grandpas alone. "Undercover Grandpa" is just plain dumb. You can't believe the story for a single second ! Watch Caan having trouble to just walk away, and suddenly, doing hand fight almost like JCVD...unbelievable. The whole thing is a total mess. The girl playing as Angie is a bad actress, she looks "lost". If you really want to see what "old" actors can still do, I suggest you to watch "RED" and "RED 2", they are much better. And avoid "undercover grandpa" at all cost.

I didn't know what to expect when I sat down to watch this movie. And the reason why I did sit down to watch it was James Caan, pure and simple. This movie was actually surprisingly better than I had dared to think it to be. The storyline was good and entertaining, although somewhat predictable and generic. But it was the absurdity of the situations and the older actors that really made this an outstanding movie with their memorable performances. There were some nice actors and actresses performing in "Undercover Grandpa", with the likes of James Caan, Louis Gossett Jr., Kenneth Welsh and Jessica Walter. There is lots of action, well more or less taking into consideration the age of most of the people here. "Undercover Grandpa" was actually fun and wholesome entertainment for the entire family.