Grandma's Boy Reviews

It's as aimless and pointless as a joke told while stoned.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

This is one of those movies where you stay rooted in your seat just to see how bad it can really get. And every time you think it has hit the bottom, the filmmakers find a passage taking them lower.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4

I won't even bore you with the horrendous way this project was shot, cut, or scrawled with crayon onto a roll of toilet paper. This thing makes the Police Academy movies look like the collected works of Billy Wilder.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

The film's [directorial] crudity is ultimately an unbearable drag on its joviality.

Full Review | Original Score: C

I'd call this defiance of basic movie conventions 'experimental' if I didn't know it was actually due to sheer incompetence.

Full Review | Original Score: C

If he's schooling punks on Dance Dance Revolution or making out with Shirley Jones, Nick Swardson steals every scene he's in, giving the material a distinctive twist through unexpected line delivery and crack comic timing.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Grandma's Boy combines pot-smoking, big breasts, African bushmen, octogenarians, video-gaming techno-geeks--and one inappropriate masturbation scene--in one feel-good movie perfect for teenage boys. If they can get in, that is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Absolutely dreadful and offensive comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

I may require therapy after seeing this.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Grandma's Boy is so bad that Sandler couldn't even be bothered to make his usual cameo appearance this time around.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

One of the most humorless attempts at comedy since the invention of Rob Schneider.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

What are acclaimed veteran actresses Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight doing in a movie like Grandma's Boy? They deserve better.

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Nicholaus Goossen, another Sandler protégé, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this limp collection of clichés larded with product plugs.

| Original Score: 1/4

No one here has the slightest idea what being elderly actually means or that old folks may once have been (and may still be) far hipper than the young men and women looking at them with fond incomprehension.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

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

Full Review | Original Score: D+

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

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It's a one-line pitch in search of an actual script. And, given how difficult it is to sell a screenplay to a studio, much less get it made, it's really sad to see something this lazy and meager actually work its way through the system.

| Original Score: 1/4

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