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Grandma's Boy (2006)

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 50

A gross-out comedy that's more gross than comedic, Grandma's Boy is lazy and unrewarding.

Average Rating: 2.8/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 15

A gross-out comedy that's more gross than comedic, Grandma's Boy is lazy and unrewarding.

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Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly popular game "Eternal Death Slayer." While Alex took a big pay cut to land his dream job, he's happy with his work and is making ends meet -- until he discovers that his roommate hasn't paid the rent for the last six months, using the money to

R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Nick Goossen

Written By: Allen Covert, Nick Swardson

In Theaters: Jan 6, 2006 Wide

On DVD: May 9, 2006

Box Office:$5.9M

20th Century Fox

[The film] does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows.

January 11, 2006 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Gregory Kirschling

Entertainment Weekly

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The Sandler-patented mix of the deliberately offensive and the blatantly sentimental loses something in the maestro's absence.

January 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety

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Ronnie Scheib

Variety

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Grandma's Boy is an Adam Sandler comedy without Adam Sandler, which is kind of like getting a root canal without the dentist.

January 9, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.

January 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Even silly fun needs serious talent behind it.

January 9, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Jami Bernard

New York Daily News

Top Critic

The kind of laid-back goofball comedy custom-designed to chase away any self-respecting respectable person and play to the good-natured slackers out there in the dark. If you're among the latter, you've found a home. If you're not, you have been warned.

January 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Newsday

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Gene Seymour

Newsday

Top Critic

Absolutely dreadful and offensive comedy.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Heather Boerner

Common Sense Media

Even if you aren't under the influence, you might find yourself chuckling at various points during the movie, if only in disbelief at some of the things the cast is asked to do.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Ethan Alter

Film Journal International

If nothing else, Grandma's Boy answers the question of what a ramshackle early Adam Sandler movie would be like without Adam Sandler.

November 27, 2006 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Amelie Gillette

AV Club

Hilarity fails to ensue in the workplace or at home, in spite of the late introduction of a fighting, driving monkey.

September 23, 2006 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Nathan Rabin

AV Club

better than some sandler movies

June 29, 2006 Full Review Source: sbs.is

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Stefan Birgir Stefansson

sbs.is

...one puerile, thoroughly unfunny joke after another...

May 27, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The chief value of this stinker is as a glimpse of how bad Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and The 40-Year-Old Virgin might have been if they'd been written by Covert, Barry Wernick and Nick Swardson, and directed by Nicholaus Goossen.

May 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review

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Jim Lane

Sacramento News & Review

Covert is so obnoxious, so lacking in the basic understanding of comic timing, that we understand why he has to get his buddy Sandler to give him work.

May 6, 2006 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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David Cornelius

eFilmCritic.com

Grandma's Boy is a better series of spoofs than anything we currently see on that show. It's an affectionate and tight-knit comedy.

March 23, 2006 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Urban Cinefile

Those who like America Pie and its spawn will likely find comfort in the jokes here.

February 2, 2006 Full Review Source: IGN Movies

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Chris Carle

IGN Movies

Grandma's Boy is what would result if Adam Sandler and his high profile co-stars bailed on a movie and the understudies took over.

January 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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Mark Pfeiffer

Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

It's gross, it's cheesy, and it's baked beyond all reasonable limits, but this everything-and-the-kitchen-sink comic souffl� still manages to be goofily entertaining beyond all expectations.

January 15, 2006 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

"Grandma's Boy" is a pot- and potty-mouthed relative of an Adam Sandler movie.

January 14, 2006 Full Review | Comments (9)

Linda Cook

Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Like the dead kitty left to rot under grandma's couch, this movie stinks!

January 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Jam! Movies

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Bruce Kirkland

Jam! Movies

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Grandma's Boy is one enjoyable stoner comedy. I love this film. Though never really hilarious, the film is fairly humourous and is pretty well done. The plot is simple, but what makes this film work is the comical cast involved. Though not perfect, Grandma's Boy is at times charming, and is a lot of fun. This is the

May 29, 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

So this is one of those movies that i know is just beyond dumb but i cant tell my friends that cause you know, whatever your friends are doing is obviously the thing to do, right? i mean i may think Grandma's boy sucks, but what do i know? ive been wrong before. remember Vans? those were stupid shoes and i KNEW that,

March 21, 2009

Coxxie Mild Sauce

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