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Grandma's Boy
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation


7.1

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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

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

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.

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.

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.

Variety Ronnie Scheib

Even Sandler diehards may pass on this mostly derivative paean to compulsive computer geekdom and male sexual dysfunction.

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."

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.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Stupid, yes, but fun nonetheless.

Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman

The sex, fart, and pot jokes come so fast and furious that a white flag seems the most appropriate response.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.

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.

Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling

Does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows.

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.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

There's no drug potent enough to make Grandma's Boy worth 87 minutes of your life.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A pathetic stoner comedy.

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.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 63 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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

T D. gave it a10:
Very funny the story of my life videogames and weed / does it get any better.

Pierre C. gave it a10:
I really do not understand what the big fuss over this movie is. When I first saw this movie about a year ago, I laughed harder than I've ever laughed watching a movie. Since then, I've seen it on numerous occasions among friends, and I have yet to get tired of it. That's the essence of a good film. I could not imagine it done differently!

Greg C. gave it a10:
Anyone who doesn't like this movie needs to open the sense of humor and stop disliking movies just because their stupid and have raunchy humor with lots of drugs, sex and swearing. This is one of the all time funniest movies made. Just because it is R rated and not as smart as the 40 year old virgin doesn't mean its not good or not funny. Open up your sense of humor and people. I mean common any movie with pot heads, Filipino hookers, video games, hot girls, a dude who thinks hes a robot, and a tai-kwon-do chimpanzee is a good movie.

Casey M. gave it a9:
I've much to offer in the sense of giving a fair/unbiased review, but am limited to few words. Simply put, the critiques provided by the more popular sites/magazines have absolutely no flexibility in expanding mental prowess to accommodate the comedy used, so you can forget about rating accuracy. Theres definitely some intelligence built into the creation of this movie, but if you can't seem to grasp the moments, thats unfortunately your own lack of creativity. Don't bother watching and providing the world a negative review if you don't understand this movie. And for the record, this movie never attempted to have a historically altering plot attached. Its unreasonable, for example, to compare Shaun of the Dead to Dawn of the Dead. (Also, you can't say J.P. was a "hollow" character) -CM

Lawrence T. gave it a0:
Grandma's Boy is one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life. It lacks a plot, and has hollow characters. I of course could forgive those if it made me laugh, but it didn't. I want that hour and a half of my life back.

AJ gave it a2:
Wow I just bought this movie used and man did it suck. It was so bad I don't even have words to describe it. I gave it a two because I laughed when the monkey kicked the guy at the bottom of the stairs. It's the only funny part but it was in the commercial anyway.

Grandma's Boy Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Grandma's Boy
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation