Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
October. 25,2013 R86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
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The Worst Film Ever
Good concept, poorly executed.
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
This Movie is an inspiration that how the drug can damage our family bonding. how much kids want to be with their family. The movie is kind of funny though. That little boy was extraordinary. I have already seen his another movie name 'Fun size'. I think he gonna be a big star. Wotrh Watching both movie
This isn't a jackass flick. Don't get me wrong, this has the jackass gang but it plays out like a movie where the actors don't go out of character and are not playing themselves. It brought me to tears of laughter many times. This may be a guy flick (my wife hates it) but what I love is the sense of humanity the unknowing participants express (and of course the outrageous stunts). Definitely worth giving it a shot!
Yeah ... I get satire.This is the worst, most dehumanizing, massively amoral, and continuously and infallibly ignorant thing I have ever seen.It is not effectively satirical. It is simply a series of the most anti-social, unacceptable, sub-human behavior the morons behind it could imagine. Funny? Amusing? Entertaining? None of the above.I've just - quite unwillingly - been subjected to most of this aberrant insanity.I cannot see a single redeeming quality in this piece of garbage.The fools who made it and are in it are the best argument for bringing back horse-whipping and the use of public pillories.
'Jackass' is back! Well, sort of. Johnny Knoxville has re-teamed with his 'Jackass' crew, including director Jeff Tremaine, to make a new movie centered on his character Irving Zisman, an elderly man who steals, curses, and fools real people into thinking that he's harmed himself by doing a variety of stunts and gags. Also, he likes to show off his 12-inch sagging scrotum to anyone who walks by. Mixing in a narrative story with real pranks on real people, 'Bad Grandpa' is like 'Borat' with the 'Jackass' brand. And man, does it work. I haven't laughed so hard in a movie theater in a long time.If you've seen any of the 'Jackass' movies, you should know that the Irving character is raunchy, vulgar and not above putting himself in harm's way. The narrative story here features a kid named Billy (Jackson Nicoll) whose mother is about to start a prison sentence for drugs and other felonies. She gives the kid to her father Irving (Knoxville) in the middle of the funeral ceremony for his recently deceased wife. She tells him to drive Billy across country to be with his father. Needless to say, Billy's father is no prized human either. He sells drugs and stolen electronics.Billy and Irving embark on a long road trip with many misadventures along the way. The movie is mostly shot with hidden HD cameras, as Knoxville captures real people and their real reactions to his gags, which are often very funny. From Irving getting his schlong stuck inside a vending machine to Billy posing as a girl in a toddler beauty pageant, all of the pranks had me laughing 'til I cried. Yet there's less of a gross-out factor than the other 'Jackass' movies. Instead, we get comically awkward moments with real people at their jobs, such as Irving trying to overnight Billy in a package at the post office.What works here is the chemistry between Knoxville and Nicoll. The boy is far advanced from his actual age, and can keep up with Knoxville's antics and improvisations. He's a cute kid and is genuinely funny throughout. As for Knoxville, he amps up his Irving character to 11 and never holds back. Although I wasn't too sure about making a whole movie about this character, I was pleasantly surprised at how funny it turned out.