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Grandmas Boy
2006
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Grandmas Boy
Positive Reviews
13
Negative reviews
35
Average Rating
1.9
/5
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2.0
If nothing else, Grandmas Boy answers the question of what a ramshackle early Adam Sandler movie would be like without Adam Sandler.
Av Club
3.0
Which makes it all the more embarrassing that the movies so lame.But what inspired their trust
EW
1.0
The problem is that the joke is lame.Grandmas Boy throws every pop culture cliche at you: self consciously politically incorrect portrayals of ethnic ..
Common Sense Media
1.5
The Sandler patented mix of the deliberately offensive and the blatantly sentimental loses something in the maestros absence.
Variety
1.5
However, Shimizu doesnt quite achieve the ostensible goal of Marebitos verite style and purposefully low tech execution: to pervert our sense of what ..
Austin Chronicle
1.9
Goossen misuses recognizable names for dubious cameos and pushes eccentric side characters to uncomfortable parody.
2.0
Its gross, its cheesy, and its baked beyond all reasonable limits, but this everything and the kitchen sink comic souffle still manages to be goofily ..
3.0
Instead, it cheerfully invites the audience to descend to their level, where no joke is too silly or raunchy, and a plot is just a way of passing time ..
The New York Times
1.0
Grandmas Boy is so bad that Sandler couldnt even be bothered to make his usual cameo appearance this time around.
E Film Critic
1.0
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 ..
E Film Critic
1.3
Im 90 percent sure its the latter.While the themes of Hostel are so excessively gory that youll wonder how it got made, this horror/thriller/sex romp ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Kind of like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle crossed with The Golden Girls.
Cinema Blend
1.3
There are worse signs to come, proving once again that even silly fun needs serious talent behind it.
Ny Daily News
1.9
Thanks to the affable performances, Grandmas Boy comes across as more inane than offensive.
The Globe And Mail
3.0
A brain dead piece of slacker swill, worse than the worst Sandler, Schneider or Spade movie ever made.
One Guys Opinion
0.6
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, ..
ReelViews
1.0
Too bad the same cant be said for everyone else involved in this total waste of time.
Tv Guide
1.0
This lame comedy stars Allen Covert (who also cowrote the adolescent script) as a stoner video game tester in his mid 30s whos forced to move in with ..
Chicago Reader
1.3
The Ringer is far from a comedy classic, but theres no denying that its a whole lot better than one mightve expected. out of
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
One thing almost all movies have is a plot.Good movies, bad movies, average movies, most of them have stories of some kind.
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
A 35 year old pot addled video game tester (Allen Covert) gets evicted from his apartment and is forced to move in with his grandmother (Doris Roberts ..
News Review
1.3
Nicholaus Goossen, another Sandler protege, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this limp collection of cliches larded with product plugs.
New York Post
2.5
But the movies pointlessness turns out to be part of its (limited) charm.
Film Journal International ..
1.5
If youre a video game geek and/or a stoner, Grandmas Boy isnt a comedy its a documentary.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
1.9
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 ..
Boston
3.5
Grandmas Boy is rarely mean spirited, even at its raunchiest and it can get pretty raunchy.The premise is simple.
Mountain X
1.3
Susan Delacourt: Elizabeth May is having a low carbon wedding but will the bride wear green
Toronto Star
1.5
What are acclaimed veteran actresses Doris Roberts, Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight doing in a movie like Grandmas Boy They deserve better.
Reel Talk Reviews
1.5
While its never as awful as I originally predicted, its still a messy result of too many cooks in the kitchen and lacks any sense of energy or laughs.
Cinema Crazed
3.5
GRANDMAS BOY SYNOPSIS: At 35, Alex (Allen Covert) is the oldest video game tester around he loves working day and night, nutting out every detail.Howe ..
4.0
In the real world, no one ever learns anything. People just stumble along in their own filth and stupidity. So does everyone in this movie. Its refres ..
Movies
2.5
As a leave your brain at the door entertainment, which is all the film strives for, it is a passable entertainment.
The Movie Boy
1.5
Whatever the excuse, there simply isnt one good enough to justify laying down ten bucks for 96 minutes of pure drivel.
Bullz-Eye
2.5
Sure the film is clearly aimed for a particular demographic but it isnt a total waste of time for the rest of us.
Hollywood
3.5
I forgot what it was like to laugh in a big room full of strangers.Lets get something straight theres absolutely, positively nothing significant about ..
7M Pictures
2.0
The real shame of Grandmas Boy isnt the juvenile humor, its that theres a lot of solid humor potential here, and its just not realized.
E Online
2.5
All in all, Grandmas Boy is a Neanderthal picture; its funny but so lowbrow youll actually feel your brain cells dying.
Contact Music
1.0
At long last, a movie to steal the audience away from The Chronicles of Narnia!.Grandmas Boy has it all bong hits, top heavy topless women, Doris Robe ..
La Times
3.0
As a short it could have emerged as inspired, but as a feature it feels tired, deflated, and far too familiar.
From The Balcony
2.0
There is no movie. There is only the fact that Adam Sandler has cronies, and Adam Sandler gets what he wants.
Film Blather
1.9
less a movie than it is a string of mediocre Saturday Night Live skits, and it doesnt even attempt to develop anything resembling a plot until well af ..
James Sanford on Film
3.0
Attempting to replicate an 80s teen comedy vibe from its cartoony poster art and Space Invaders ish credit sequence to its Meatballs style gags Grandm ..
Nicks Chager
2.0
If hes schooling punks on Dance Dance Revolution or making out with Shirley Jones, Nick Swardson steals every scene hes in, giving the material a dist ..
Film Jerk
2.5
Those who like America Pie and its spawn will likely find comfort in the jokes here.
Film Force Ign
1.9
The nicest thing that can be said about this stoner comedy is that its not the worst of its lowbrow kind.
Fantastic A Daily
3.0
Grandmas Boy is what would result if Adam Sandler and his high profile co stars bailed on a movie and the understudies took over.
Reel Times: Reflections on ..
1.3
The only worthwhile character is bad guy J.P. (Joel David Moore), a gaming prodigy with a Gollum like multiple personality disorder... J.P. suggests a ..
Boston Phoenix
1.3
Grandmas Boy is a brain dead stoner comedy from Happy Madison Productions that was coproduced by Adam Sandler. Rarely has so little been done with so ..
Freep
1.5
You have to give credit to a movie that focuses 90 percent of its energy on video game and ganja jokes. Even if you make the best movie ever, gamers a ..
Rich Mond
0.5
Grandmas Boy isnt just a movie, its a weapon of mass destruction. Audiences across the country should run for cover.
Boston Herald
1.0
I wont 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 Pol ..
Hollywood Bitch Slap
2.5
Its plenty stupid, often funny and occasionally pithy. That may add up to a movie you want to see, or it might add up to a movie that will make you il ..
Boxoffice Magazine
0.5
Like the dead kitty left to rot under grandmas couch, this movie stinks!
4.5
What distinguishes this freewheeling, strangely honest comedy (directed by first timer Nicholaus Goossen) is its puff and pass it along view, an invit ..
OC Weekly
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