My father and me: no, this is not the continuation of the comic saga with De Niro and Ben Stiller!

After the cult trilogy My stepfather and me, released between 2000 and 2010, Robert De Niro returned in 2020 with My grandfather and me, a new comedy that played with the title of the films with Ben Stiller. The French poster also used the same typography as Mon beau-père et moi.

Three years later, the legendary interpreter of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver offers us another comedy in the same vein entitled My father and me. Again, the French title plays with that of the cult trilogy, also using the same font for the poster.

However, My Grandpa and Me, like My Dad and Me, has absolutely nothing to do with My Grandpa and Me and is not a sequel! French marketing voluntarily plays on this ambiguity; indeed, the sound of the title will surely bring back good memories to those nostalgic for these 3 comic works in which Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro pulled the plug.

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For information, in the original version, My step-father and I is called Meet the Parents, My grand-father and I is the VF of The War with Grandpa and My father and I is called VO About my Father.

Directed by Laura Terruso, the feature film introduces us to Sebastian, played by Sebastian Maniscalco. Encouraged by his fiancée, he invites his father, Salvo (Robert De Niro), a modest Italian-American hairdresser, to meet his very wealthy and eccentric in-laws during an extended weekend in their sumptuous residence.

This veritable clash of cultures is transformed into an edifying and hilarious concentrate of all that must be avoided during such a family meeting.

If Robert De Niro is best known for his performances with Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Irishman or the next Killers of the Flower Moon) or in hard-core dramas (Once Upon a Time America, The Awakening, Wounds secrets), we also know that he is comfortable in the register of comedy (the trilogy My stepfather and I, Midnight Run, The New Intern).

The 79-year-old actor has delivered some wacky performances lately, notably in Dirty Grandpa, in which he portrayed Zac Efron’s lustful grandfather. This time, he finds Sebastian Maniscalco, one of his partners in The Irishman by Martin Scorsese.

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Robert De Niro likes to break his image as a serious comedian by authorizing himself from time to time roles in modest comedies, even if it means attracting the wrath of the fans, who see in this only a waste of time for an actor. of his temper. However, De Niro seems to have a great time caricaturing an Italian-American immigrant, playing with his image.

Thus, in one of the film’s striking scenes that can be seen in the trailer, Salvo kills the domestic peacock of his daughter-in-law’s family to serve them for dinner. Sebastian realizes this and is forced to bury the remains of the poor bird in the garden, throwing to his father: “Why do I feel like you’ve already done this?”

This replica, a nod to Robert De Niro’s gangster roles, especially in Goodfellas, will make fans of the 79-year-old artist smile. This colorful comedy landed in cinemas on May 31, enough to wait before Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which will be released on October 18. De Niro shares the poster with Leonardo DiCaprio.