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
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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Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
ShangLuda Admirable film.
Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Screen_Blitz Johnny Knoxville returns for some more crude pranks and gut-busting in this spiritual successor to the Jackass films. Unlike the popular televisions and the movies, this film is accompanied with a storyline about a relationship of an raucous elder man and his grandson. Suited up in prosthetics and heavy make up to give him the looks of an old man, Johnny Knoxville plays Irving Zisman, an 86-year old man who is in the hospital when he learns that his wife has just passed. However, instead of responding the situation with sorrow, he becomes excited now that he is a free man, and is free to party and do whatever he wants. His adventures into his free life become delayed during the funeral when he asked to take care of his eight-year old grandson Billy (played by Jackson Nicoli) and take him to his dad Chuck (played by Greg Harris) in North Carolina, while his mother is doing time in jail for drug usage. Initially against his will, Irving takes Billy on a road trip in which ends up turning into an adventure of hilarious shenanigans and stunts.Filmed in documentary style, much like the television series and movies, this hysterical spin-off presents viewers with a insanely crude, yet funny experience with the two main characters engaging in hilarious pranks and mischief that often results in appalled or amused reactions from extras on screen. Whether it is from young Jackson Nicoli cross dressing as a beauty pageant girl, or Johnny Knoxville going wild at a strip club full of people probably a third of his character's age; it is always funny. Though some of vulgar humor and profane language, some of which come out of the mouth of the eight year old, is enough to turn some viewers off, it often plays out to make viewers laugh their heads, and aims to be intentionally vulgar, although some people tend to see it that way. Those who are less entertained by the hilarious, but envelope-pushing pranks may find most amusement out of the shocked and disgusted reactions of the people on screen. Johnny Knoxville plays his character out pretty well and the same thing can be said for Jackson Nicoli. They present their characters with such amazing comedic chemistry.Bad Grandpa may go a bit overboard at times, but it is a faithful and stunningly hilarious spiritual successor to the Jackass films, and Jeff Tramaine does a great job directing this. This is definitely one of the funniest comedies I have seen in recent years.
whoawhoababy Not much time to say a lot..so I will just say THANK YOU!!! It was brilliant and so hilarious...we laughed our as....s off here! I also liked that there was a good show of humanity and compassion such as in the biker bar scene. I think it takes a lot of courage to be outrageous, to say and do the things the actors did, to unbeknownst people all through the taping of this movie. To put oneself at risk of being beaten up or worse is amazing to say the least. The young lad is certainly a real trooper and future success for more work in the industry! I tip my hat to you all involved and will look forward to many more belly-busting and improvising works of real true comedy in it's most basic form...the unsuspecting receivers! Keep it up and make more stuff! I, we love it!
Finfrosk86 A lot better than I thought. Not that I didn't think it was going to be simple fun, bur this movie kind of surprised me.I knew rather little about it, I pretty much only knew it was from the "Jackass-people". And so I guess I thought it would be more like Jackass. But this is a movie. It is actually made like a movie, with acting and stuff. And it really works. The goal of a movie like this is to be entertaining and to make the viewer laugh and cringe. And you know, it does just that!Some of the scenes are painful to watch, because it is filmed among real people. It's a funny and effective mix of a movie and hidden camera. It works.The kid is great! Johnny Knoxville is also good, the makeup is awesome, but the kid! Good job!Some of it might be staged and scripted, but you can normally see, with ease, if a reaction is real or not, and I think most of the reactions here are real.
Mr-Fusion I've never been a Jackass fan , but "Bad Grandpa" was genuinely hilarious. There's a narrative to the movie, but really that's just an excuse for the antics. And Knoxville is on fire here. The man deserves hug credit for never cracking up in the middle of a prank, and that takes serious skill. The vending machine, the male strip club, the "shart" scene in the restaurant - they're constantly going to unbelievable lengths, and half the fun is just seeing the peoples' reactions. I had a lot of fun with this movie, a pleasant surprise indeed.I don't know where they could take this story-wise, but count me in for a sequel.7/10