Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 30
Never quite as funny as it wants to be, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa still offers viewers the timeless pleasures of seeing an old man get his privates stuck in a vending machine.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 9
Never quite as funny as it wants to be, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa still offers viewers the timeless pleasures of seeing an old man get his privates stuck in a vending machine.
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86 year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion, his 8 year-old Grandson Billy in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa." This October, the signature Jackass character Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places and situations that give new meaning to the
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It's been 11 years since Jackass: The Movie, and three since Jackass 3D, although it feels a lot longer than that.
Top CriticLike the lime-green bingo dabber contents Irving drinks down to the horror of his seatmates, it's an acquired taste.
It's not really a movie. It's Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass crew faking out real people into believing he's 86-year-old Irving Zisman, an old fart bag traveling cross-country.
Sometimes joy buzzers - and pratfalls, and funny costumes - are really all you need for a laugh or two. Or even a three-star comedy.
Apart from a handful of physical stunts and the penultimate biker-bar setup, Knoxville never puts himself at risk, and the imbalance of power curdles the imperative to laugh at the rubes.
You'll occasionally laugh out loud, but the heart of the movie is safe enough to chuckle at.
Be warned: Knoxville has a thing for body parts, and body functions, that you'll never, ever, see on America's Funniest Home Videos.
I didn't laugh as often as I did at the earlier Jackass films, but it did make me laugh just as hard.
I laughed, cackled, and often felt completely embarrassed by doing so.
Secondhand gags, third-rate execution, fourth-rate results.
Another gleeful 'Jackass' gross-out...
If your expectations are in the right place, then this is a film that is endlessly amusing and often hilarious, but if you have a firm distaste for the raunchy or ridiculous, you may want to steer clear.
There's a lot of things in there that we really shouldn't laugh at, but we can't help it.
Thank goodness comedy still has the power to make us confront the stuff decorum tells us to avoid.
The story is thin but Bad Grandpa successfully freshens the Jackass format and will, without question, keep fans of the series laughing (and cringing) the entire time.
The pranks themselves, the incredibly deft execution and improvisation (by both Knoxville and his impressive child co-star), and most of all the reactions from the prankees make for some of the best laughs I've had in or out of a theater this year.
Knoxville continues to crank out lowest-common-denominator schlock that would be deeply embarrassing on the résumé of a man half his age.
An entirely conventional filmed comedy with this pair could have worked, and I suspect a gonzo, Jackass-style montage would have been decent as well. Putting the two together results in a final product that's only half as good.
There's a reason candid camera stuff has been with us since we figured out how to hide cameras, and Knoxville's grinning rambunctiousness is enough to keep it far away from Just for Laughs Gags territory.
What may surprise you is that this film fails not because of the low-brow humor. It's the abysmal filmmaking.
A sometimes-funny-but-mostly-not mash-up of Borat, Weekend At Bernie's (a corpse along for the ride) and Bad Santa (an offensive old guy along with a kid).
Some of the jokes are flat-out hilarious, but most are overworked or tepid.
The trick to such humour involves persuading the audience to squirm and laugh at the same time. Grandpa triggers merely the squirming, and you can get that from a mild case of haemorrhoids.
Bad Grandpa has no goals whatsoever beyond making you snort with base, moronic glee, but when it scores, it scores.
My eyes are still burning.
Worth seeing just for Nicoll, whose deadpan delivery is priceless.
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