86-year-old Irving Zisman takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina
to take his 8 year-old grandson, Billy, back to his real father.
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Writers:
Fax Bahr (story),
Spike Jonze (story)
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After the stereoscopic shit and spew of Jackass 3D, this stupefyingly unfunny dirge slumps into hackneyed Candid Camera territory, presenting a series of "skits" strung together with a narrative that commits the twin crimes of being both coarse and sentimental.Johnny Knoxville dons the ageing makeup as Irving Zisman, an octogenarian widower with his wife's body in the trunk and grandson on the front seat of his car, roaming across America showing his rubbery scrotum to all and sundry. After 80 minutes of sub-Borat dick-jokes (and "jovial" harassment of women), we get a beauty pageant finale for which the makers of Little Miss Sunshine should sue. Secondhand gags, third-rate execution, fourth-rate results.
Perhaps in acknowledgment that they're getting too old for masochistic tomfoolery, the Jackass crew mix up the formula – by getting even older. Regulars will be familiar with Knoxville's Irving Zisman persona, and the theory that you can get away with anything if you're disguised as a lecherous, liver-spotted old coot is taken even further when Zisman reluctantly takes a road trip with his chubby nine-year-old grandson, with hidden-camera gags along the way. Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat set the bar very high for this type of narrative-driven prankery, and in comparison, Bad Grandpa comes across as disjointed and aimless. Having said that, some of the pranks are awfully funny, putting lewdness and prosthetic body parts in places they're really not supposed to go, such as funeral parlours, child beauty pageants and, most memorably, an Afro-American "ladies night".
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Summary:
I think there are two different possible reviews, one for the mtv kids generation and one for the rest of the world. For the second ones it will be a WhatShit, but most of the cinema-visitors are in the first group and so there is a .....
Box Office:
| Domestic Total as of Oct. 29, 2013: $37,760,052 | |
| Distributor: Paramount | Release Date: |
| Genre: Comedy | Runtime: 1 hrs. 33 min. |
| MPAA Rating: R | Production Budget: $15 million |
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