(Download Bad Grandpa) The minute you see the trailer for Bad Grandpa you will make up your mind right away if you’re interested in seeing the film, whether you think it looks hilarious or crass, tasteless and unfunny. I‘m sure the makers of it would be happy with either reaction.
The film is expanded from one of the many segments of the once wildly popular Jackass series in which Johnny Knoxville dresses up in old man prosthetics and behaves inappropriately in public. It’s really the only part of Jackass that could have been made into a film on its own (the rest being essentially a bunch of daring morons hurting themselves on camera)(Bad Grandpa Download) but as it turns out the film is a case of a joke spread too thin (not unlike the Machete franchise) but the moments that work are funny enough for those who don’t mind the level of maturity dialled down and the in-your-face shock factor turned up to 11.
(Download Bad Grandpa) The plot, such at is, centres on 86-year-old Irving Zisman (Knoxville) who is tasked with taking his grandson across the country to be with his father after the mother is put in jail. While on their journey the pair get up to all manner of public mishaps, from (quite literally) (Download Bad Grandpa Movie) crashing a wedding to faking their way into a girl’s beauty pageant.
(Download Bad Grandpa) The reason why the fake old man gag worked as well as it did in the Jackass TV show and subsequent feature films was in seeing the public’s reaction to his behaviour. The problem with this film version is it only works in those moments and everything in between falls rather flat and just gets in the way of the reaction-based comedy. You spend some of the time wondering how genuine those reactions are, especially in some of the film’s more clearly manufactured moments – Irving crashing through the window of a shop after a children’s ride “malfunctions,” for example – but the end credits put much of those doubts to rest as it shows you Knoxville and Co. revealing to the unwitting public that it’s actually a movie.
(Download Bad Grandpa) The film tries to hit several emotional beats involving Irving actually caring for his grandson despite him trying get rid of him but that aspect never quite works, while scenes of them sitting in their car bonding in their own special way feels like marking time until we get to the next public altercation. It also falls victim to that most annoying of modern movie going traits; most of the best bits are in the trailer. It doesn’t have enough surprising tricks up its sleeve with only one well-kept gag involving a cafe-based farting competition between Irving and his grandson Billy (the endearingly mischievous relative newcomer Jackson Nicoll) that provides the film’s biggest belly laugh. Other than that the laughs are there but far less frequent than you would hope thanks to a paper-thin plot that merely distracts rather than makes it work as a fully functioning feature film.
(Download Bad Grandpa) If you’re at all interested in seeing Bad Grandpa then you know what you’re getting yourself in for and so the level of unashamed crassness and attempts at shocking you should come as no surprise. The comedy is wildly inconsistent, ranging from genuinely laugh-out-loud hilarious (often make you feeling utterly guilty for laughing at it) to just tasteless moments without the funny factor to back it up; a running gag about Irving travelling with his wife’s dead body in the trunk of his car, for example, is particularly misjudged. But for those who find the Borat-style public reaction humour to be their particular cup of tea then there’s just about enough here to make it passable. Just.
Slapping on the prosthetics, Johnny Knoxville returns as his codger character Irving in this fourth Jackass movie.With Irving on the road with his grandson (Jackson Nicoll), it’s not clear why the team decided to swap the usual skits for this paper-thin story.And while there are stunts aplenty it’s largely built on pranking passers-by with puerile antics. Stomach-churners include the penis-in-a-vending machine opener and Irving’s striptease.(Watch Bad Grandpa Online) There’s also a priceless beauty pageant sequence, but most of the gags fall flatter than a Knoxville belly-flop.