Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

2013 "Real people. Real reactions. Real messed up."
6.5| 1h32m| R| en| More Info
Released: 25 October 2013 Released
Producted By: Paramount Pictures
Country: United States of America
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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.

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Comedy

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Jeff Tremaine

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Paramount Pictures

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Diagonaldi Very well executed
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
Benedito Dias Rodrigues Although it's obscene,vulgar,dirty and lewd is outrageous funniest comedy since Borat...Knoxville is a genius really,some scenes are totally unexpected for those whose caught in the hidden camera,the highlights are stuck in vending machine is a crying shame,the funeral is embarrassing,fishing Moby Dick is a shameless scene,restaurant is awful dirty,Penguin is dangerous,ladies night is most original idea of all time and adjustable bed is scary and a lot of bonus material with deleted scenes....oh my God l've been waited for my own Blu-ray to watch it again a full lenght movie!! Resume: First watch: 2015 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-Blu-Ray / Rating: 8.5
Python Hyena Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013): Dir: Jeff Tremaine / Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Niccol, Georgina Cates, Greg Harris, Jill Kill: From the Jackass brand comes more disgusting humour that includes a penis caught in a soda machine, feces splattered all over a restaurant wall after passing gas gone wrong, or even a child pageant where old Irving convinces his grandson Billy to dress up in drag to perform a strip tease to the shock of everyone. We have all seen elderly of similar attitudes. Irving's wife just passed away and he is more than delighted at his never-too-late freedom until little Billy is put in his care by his daughter Kimmie who is off to jail because of drugs. He decides to transport him across country to the real father who is another drug dealing loser. Of course, Irving and Billy will end up bonding while travelling with grandma's corpse in the trunk. This is just a series of crude physical hijinks weaved together within a thin story that conceals charm. Director Jeff Tremaine has directed all the Jackass films to which only the first is worthwhile. Johnny Knoxville knocks it out of the park as Irving whose testicles dangle out in a strip bar. The makeup is convincing and lends to the charm. Jackson Niccol steals moments as the daring Billy only looking for acceptance. In amusing supporting roles are Georgina Cates as conniving Kimmie and Greg Harris as Chuck the intoxicated father. Jill Kill plays a pageant host who is in for a surprise. Theme regards how elderly seem to get away with the most outrageous behavior despite how bad. Score: 8 / 10
Dave McClain Hollywood has given us movies about Bad Boys, Bad Lieutenants, Bad Santas, Bad Teachers and even an individual Bad man (with a Good man and an Ugly man thrown in for good measure). All the movies I just referenced turned a profit – and they represent just the tip of the "Bad" iceberg. I guess Bad can be pretty good, at least for a movie studio's bottom line. So it should come as no surprise that Tinseltown chose to give us a film about a subpar patriarch. "Bad Grandpa" (R, 1:32) is, in a sense, a spin off of a spin off (or, you could say, this "Grandpa" is a grand-SON, of sorts). After Johnny Knoxville and his band of merry masochists gained an audience torturing themselves (and each other) for your amusement in their 2000-2002 MTV show, "Jackass", they began making feature-length movies full of their dangerous stunts and gross-out gags. One of the characters they created in order to set up some of their jokes was an "old" man named Irving Zisman. When Knoxville and his writing partners figured out a way to make Zisman's antics into a feature film, a highly inappropriate grandfather figure was born."Bad Grandpa" is part "Jackass" and part "Borat". (Yes, I know that's not that second movie's complete title, but "Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" is too many words for me to completely write out in one of my reviews... Wait a minute. Crap.) As I already mentioned, this film is part of the evolution of the "Jackass" franchise, but it has two things that the films, videos and TV shows that preceded it do not – a plot, and actual humor. In this film, Irving (Knoxville, after three hours a day in the make-up chair) is an 86-year-old man whose wife dies and whose daughter is going to jail, forcing Irving to drive his 8-year-old grandson, Billy (Jackson Nicoll) from Nebraska to North Carolina so he can be cared for by his father, a man whose lifestyle looks destined to land him in the Big House someday too. On their road trip, Irving and Billy interact with ordinary people in some very extraordinary ways and get themselves into some pretty unusual (and hilarious) situations. That's where "Borat: Cultural Learnings…." comes in. Most of the people with which Irving and Billy interact are real people whose actions and reactions are captured on hidden camera, and who don't find out it's all a set-up until afterwards (and those who didn't later sign consent forms get their faces blurred out). Now, I won't say any more about the film's situations, set-ups and sight gags for two reasons: (1) If you've seen the trailer, you know many of the funniest bits already and I wouldn't want to deprive you of any more surprises. (2) If you haven't seen the trailer, you're in for a real treat.This is a VERY funny movie! The plot gives a necessary structure to the humor and the gags are rarely as disgusting, painful or cringe-inducing as in the previous incarnations of "Jackass". Now, we can debate the propriety of involving a child actor in some of this adult-oriented humor, but Movie Fans have enjoyed similar humor (sometimes involving children) in "Borat", "A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas", the "Vacation" movies and countless other comedies, many of which are revered to this day. No children were (physically) harmed in the making of this movie and I think that little Jackson Nicoll (who already had nine films under his belt) will survive the "trauma" of participating in this movie. Although a few of the gags fall flat, and parents may think that some of them went a bit too far, I found "Bad Grandpa" about as funny as the trailer led me to believe it would be (for a change) – and much more entertaining than Knoxville's earlier efforts. "B+"
room102 I hate to admit it, but the movie had some really fun moments where I actually LOL. It was better than I expected from watching the trailer.The movie is built as an actual film with a story, which incorporates a candid camera in each scene. There are some dull moments, but usually the result is pretty funny.The makeup on Knoxville is absolutely fantastic and he's "lost" (in the good way) in the character - you think of him as an old guy, not as a guy in makeup. I have to give it to Knoxville, who is pretty convincing in his performance. The kid is also great. Both actors never break character and they are great in improvisation.Don't get me wrong - this is not a masterpiece, it's "Jackass"-silly, but if you want to have some harmless fun you'll enjoy (most of) it.