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Grandma's Boy
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Grandma's Boy reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 33 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.2 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for drug use and language throughout, strong crude and sexual humor, and nudity

Starring Linda Cardellini, Peter Dante, Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, Joel Moore, Kevin Nealon, Doris Roberts, and Nick Swardson

The latest comedy from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, Grandmas's Boy features gamers and grannies, sex and partying, bong vases and footie pajamas...and even a Tae Kwan Do master chimpanzee. (20th Century Fox)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Barry Wernick
Allen Covert
Nick Swardson
 
DIRECTED BY: Nicholaus Goossen  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: May 9, 2006 
Theatrical: January 6, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 96 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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70
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Sandler crony Allen Covert, the star, producer and co-writer of this stunted-adolescence classic, hilariously explores a previously untapped nexus of stoner humor, joystick geekdom, elderly women and a martial arts-taught chimp.
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60
Los Angeles Times Roger Moore
It's as aimless and pointless as a joke told while stoned. There are some pretty decent shock-laughs, often provided by Jones, who hasn't ever been this nasty.
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50
The New York Times Dana Stevens
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 between game levels and bong hits.
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40
Variety Ronnie Scheib
Even Sandler diehards may pass on this mostly derivative paean to compulsive computer geekdom and male sexual dysfunction.
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40
Film Threat Michael Ferraro
A touch above the usual adolescent male friendly films of Happy Madison's previous on-screen massacres (see "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" for example”) but it isn't quite as smart or funny as other recent comedies like "40 Year-Old Virgin" or "Wedding Crashers."
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40
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The film doesn't have much in the way of genuine laughs despite a plethora of attempted gags, but it does have a geniality that makes it hard to entirely dislike.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Stupid, yes, but fun nonetheless.
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40
Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman
The sex, fart, and pot jokes come so fast and furious that a white flag seems the most appropriate response.
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38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.
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33
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Grandma's Boy aspires to nothing more than the frathouse goofiness and juvenile high spirits of early Sandler vehicles, but it possesses the energy of a funeral dirge played at half-speed.
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25
Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling
Does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows.
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25
TV Guide Ken Fox
Lacking so much as a shred of wit and crammed with more product placements than jokes, this unendurable stoner comedy clearly disproves the movie-formula wisdom that two guys, one Xbox and a 2-foot-long bong add up to something funny.
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25
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
There's no drug potent enough to make Grandma's Boy worth 87 minutes of your life.
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25
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A pathetic stoner comedy.
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12
ReelViews James Berardinelli
This is one of those movies where you stay rooted in your seat just to see how bad it can really get.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 66 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

John D. gave it a10:
One of my favorite movies. Any one bashing it as NO funny side. 10/10 for the best comedy movie out there.

Josh K. gave it a10:
This is quite possibly the best movie ever made.

Jake K gave it a10:
I don't know what you guys are talking about because i loved this movie. Very funny parts to it. Hope there is a Grandmas Boy 2.

Timothy G. gave it a10:
i thought it was a great movie. anybody who doesn't like it should stop going on the internet and bitching about it. some people like it so get over it. you are just the worst kind of people.

Glen H. gave it a10:
Fantastic comedy that in NO WAY DESERVES a 32/100 metascore. Hilarious add-libs by the character J.P. make this movie one of the greatest comedies in the last number of years. Look past the jokes that fall flat and you'll love the subtlies of the great supporting cast. "I am JP I like robots I have a robot vagina." Genius.

Aaron D. gave it a9:
So this movie definitely isn't highbrow. The plot is practically non-existant and is just a mechanism to go from gag to joke to gag. Sure, at times it was crude, or a bit shocking. If you are easily offended, I can see not liking this movie... but then why are you going to a Happy Madison production anyway. I'm giving this movie a 9 because it was FUNNY. I laughed long, and hard, all my friends I have shown it to laughed long and hard. And this laughing still occurs even after multiple viewings.

Steven S gave it a7:
This movie had no story, but it actually WAS funny. You just have to get it, seriously.

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