Johnny Knoxville has made a name for himself by destroying his body and making countless fans die laughing in the process. His fearless motive and hilarious stunt attempts made him a star. Now while Bad Grandpa does carry the Jackass name, make no mistake, this is not your average Jackass film.
Now what was stated above overall hurt and helped the film in different ways. Right off the start you can tell that this isn't going to be 90 minutes of 9 or 10 guys continuously beating themselves to a pulp in the most insane ways imaginable. Bad Grandpa tries to deliver an actual story, in the best way a movie like this can. The hilarious Irving Zisman, who we saw in previous Jackass films as a spin-off character, gets his own full length film where he has to take his grandson across the country and deliver him to his father. The story is as straight forward and dumbed down as a movie can get and it slows the movie down from what it's really about, and that's making the audience laugh. While this is an interesting new take on a Jackass movie, it's structure ultimately fails in delivering any sort of extra spice to the movie.
Despite the movie being hampered down by its own narrative, Bad Grandpa still finds ways to get laughs from the viewers. Again, this isn't the bruise wearing Johnny Knoxville we all know. In Bad Grandpa, Knoxville and his 8 year-old grandson Billy, played by youngster Jackson Nicoll, get the laughs from absurd behavior, creating immensely uncomfortable situations and causing America's public to second guess how crazy someone can be. Real life people and situations create some preposterous moments and Knoxville uses his wit and inappropriate words to make a dirty and funny 86 year-old character. By in large, the movie succeeds in being an overall funny movie, just in a different way than its predecessors. There are times, however, that the comedy falls on its face. At times I was left not finding some of the material funny, especially in situations where the movie goes too over-the-top. It was in the subtle moments where I found some of the biggest laughs, and when the movie was trying too hard to get people to laugh, the movie became a tad dull.
Johnny Knoxville might not be the bizarre man everybody once knew, but in all honesty how long can someone do that for in the first place? Knoxville does a fine job in transferring into a more prominent acting role and young Jackson Nicoll also does a solid job on the big screen. Each character feeds off each other and the combination of an 86 year- old man and a 8 year-old child acting completely raunchy provides for some huge laughs.
While Bad Grandpa isn't your ordinary Jackass movie it still does the name justice. There may be an awful plot, some dull moments and a lack of true structure, but Bad Grandpa is still an extravaganza of absurd behavior and wildly inappropriate yet hilarious humor, and after all, that's what Jackass is made for; to make the audience laugh.
7/10
Now what was stated above overall hurt and helped the film in different ways. Right off the start you can tell that this isn't going to be 90 minutes of 9 or 10 guys continuously beating themselves to a pulp in the most insane ways imaginable. Bad Grandpa tries to deliver an actual story, in the best way a movie like this can. The hilarious Irving Zisman, who we saw in previous Jackass films as a spin-off character, gets his own full length film where he has to take his grandson across the country and deliver him to his father. The story is as straight forward and dumbed down as a movie can get and it slows the movie down from what it's really about, and that's making the audience laugh. While this is an interesting new take on a Jackass movie, it's structure ultimately fails in delivering any sort of extra spice to the movie.
Despite the movie being hampered down by its own narrative, Bad Grandpa still finds ways to get laughs from the viewers. Again, this isn't the bruise wearing Johnny Knoxville we all know. In Bad Grandpa, Knoxville and his 8 year-old grandson Billy, played by youngster Jackson Nicoll, get the laughs from absurd behavior, creating immensely uncomfortable situations and causing America's public to second guess how crazy someone can be. Real life people and situations create some preposterous moments and Knoxville uses his wit and inappropriate words to make a dirty and funny 86 year-old character. By in large, the movie succeeds in being an overall funny movie, just in a different way than its predecessors. There are times, however, that the comedy falls on its face. At times I was left not finding some of the material funny, especially in situations where the movie goes too over-the-top. It was in the subtle moments where I found some of the biggest laughs, and when the movie was trying too hard to get people to laugh, the movie became a tad dull.
Johnny Knoxville might not be the bizarre man everybody once knew, but in all honesty how long can someone do that for in the first place? Knoxville does a fine job in transferring into a more prominent acting role and young Jackson Nicoll also does a solid job on the big screen. Each character feeds off each other and the combination of an 86 year- old man and a 8 year-old child acting completely raunchy provides for some huge laughs.
While Bad Grandpa isn't your ordinary Jackass movie it still does the name justice. There may be an awful plot, some dull moments and a lack of true structure, but Bad Grandpa is still an extravaganza of absurd behavior and wildly inappropriate yet hilarious humor, and after all, that's what Jackass is made for; to make the audience laugh.
7/10