Grandma's Boy - Review

Discuss this movie on our message board!

Rated: R

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Release Date: 2006-01-06

Starring: Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Joel Moore, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, Nick Swarsdon, Jonah Hill, Kelvin Yu, Chuck Church

Directed by Nicholaus Goossen

Produced by Allen Covert, Jack Giarraputo, Adam Sandler

Written by Barry Wernick, Allen Covert, Nick Swarsdon

Visit the movie's Official Site!

Reviewed by Joshua Tyler : 2006-01-07 00:51:40

Grandma's Boy desperately wants to be The 40 Year-Old Virgin. In fact, sometimes it plays as if someone read Virgin's script and thought: "Hey I can do that!" Well they can't. This isn't that kind of film, though you get the sense that's what they were going for. Instead, Grandma's Boy is kind of like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle crossed with "The Golden Girls". While that's not good enough to lift it off into Steve Carrell's stratosphere or even the world of Harold and Kumar, it's crazy enough that as a mindless stoner/geek comedy it kind of works.

It's the story of a 35-year-old game tester named Alex who gets kicked out of his apartment when is roommate forgets to pay the rent. The guy has a job, maybe not the greatest paying job, but he does have one, so you'd think he'd crash at a hotel or something for a week. Apparently game testers make even less money than I thought. Instead Alex is forced to stay with his grandma and her two equally elderly roommates. To avoid embarrassment, he tells his co-workers that he's staying with three hot chicks, who keep him up every night with whips, chains, and wild antics in bed.

Luckily for the obviously frustrated Alex, Linda Cardellini has just gotten a job as his boss. Plot ensues. Alex smokes a lot of pot, gets Linda to smoke a lot of pot, and then finally gets his grandma smoking pot too. Somewhere in there Grandma's Boy becomes a lot of fun. The best scenes happen in the home of Alex's drug dealer. In his basement you'll find things like karate chopping chimps and tribal witch doctors. A little absurdist pothead humor never hurt anyone. Just ask Cheech and Chong.

Basically, this is a pretty low-brow, hard-R comedy, but one done with a few more laughs than the usual two native to this genre and with a surprisingly talented cast. Allen Covert plays Alex, and while IMDB tells me he's been in nearly 20 movies (most of them starring Adam Sandler), I can't remember seeing him in any one of them. That's a shame, because the guy really has something working as a sort of modern geek avatar. He's got a laid back comic style that serves him well whether he's smoking out with a monkey or playing videogames with grandma. It also doesn't hurt that he's playing of Linda Cardellini, who let's face it, in real life is way too hot to ever have anything to do with Alex. She's also way too talented to be in this movie, but evidently no one in Hollywood agrees with me.

If you're a geek, Grandma's Boy is worth seeing with some equally geek friends after a few brews and a couple of sniper-fests on Halo. If you're not, it's still better than seeing BloodRayne. See Grandma's Boy, kick Uwe Boll in the nuts.

Latest Movie Reviews:

Public Enemies

The Boat That Rocked (UK release)

My Sister's Keeper

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs 3D

Image Gallery for Grandma's Boy

Comment on “Grandma's Boy”

Note: This website is not meant for use by minors. The views expressed in the comments section below are not our own. This section is intended for discussion of the topic in the post above. Disagreement is encouraged, however comments which attack, insult, or threaten the author in a personal manner won't be published. Similarly, comments that we deem to be poorly worded, or wildly off topic will also not be approved and may be mocked. For free, uncensored, unfettered, and possibly dangerous discussion visit our forum.

Subscribe to topic comments

0 0 / 0
y n

Carl
October 1, 2008 at 14:50

What a terrible review. This guy is clearly doesn't know a funny movie when he sees one. Poor comparison to 40 yr old virgin. That movie was good, but Grandma's Boy was way better.

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

Jon B.
September 23, 2007 at 17:53

I thought this was such a dull movie when I first saw it. Comedy that has been exercised over and over, I thought.
I gave it another chance and sure am glad, because this has tured out to be one of the funniest movies I have seen.
Many critics have these egos that they must maintain in order to preserve or establish some sort of credibility in their line of work. I say f!@k the egos, smoke a boll and give in to the corky humor that this Grandma's Boy provides.

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

Oblivion
June 10, 2007 at 20:44

I think that they should and will produce a sequel to Grandmas Boy for the simple fact that there is such a large target audience to anything that has to do with video games in general. Grandmas Boy was an awesome movie that I can watch over and over again without getting tired of it. Grandmas Boy 2 should be without question

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

Finklestein
May 17, 2007 at 16:25

Josh! you trashed Beerfest and now Grandma's Boy. The 2 greatrest comedies "BY FAR" in the last 5 years.
I'm Done

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

Lori
April 10, 2007 at 17:10

Grandma's boy was the funniest movie i have seen yet. I mean the monkey is so funny and the way the grandma's actually drink that pot! I recommend that u shold watch this movie! It's well worth ur time!

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

wwe
February 2, 2007 at 00:01

do yall know if there will be a grandmas boy 2

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

gkdsha
December 5, 2006 at 13:24

alex played in all of adam sandlers movies, he was the gay guy who had the apartment in "LITTLE NICKY".. reviewers tried saying that Tenaciouse D and the pick of destiny was more aimed towards pot use, they messed up. Grandmas boy was!!

Reply
0 0 / 0
y n

Lily
August 12, 2006 at 20:40

i HATE how unfairly Grandma's Boy has been reviewed by critics! this is an amazingly funny movie! yeah, so it has a lot of pot and Alex is pretty stupid sometimes, it's still hilarious! i've watched this movie so many times and just about every line is a memorable quote i can listen to over and over. beautiful acting, these people are really in-character, and there is never a dull moment. i'd have to say that my favorite character is J.P., a video game designing "prodegy", who has a robot for a split personality, though Dante, a pot-smoking and selling guy who makes stupid choices because of always being high and ends up with some dangerous animals is also fantastic. these critics are obviously too old or uptight to know the meaning of funny. i'm not a geek, i don't smoke marajuana, and i hate video games, but i LOVE this movie!!!!!!!!!!! it's worth seeing as soon as possible! simply brilliant!!!!!!!!!!

Reply

Subscribe to topic comments

Please login or sign up to post reply

Back to Grandma's Boy

Grandma's Boy - Review

Comment on “Grandma's Boy”

Leave a Reply