Bad Grandpa

Plot synopsis:
In the opening shot, an eight-year-old overweight boy, named Billy (Jackson Nicholl), is sitting in the waiting room of a law office. He reads a magazine and turns to a page with a picture of a guy fishing. Billy turns to the lady next to him and says he'd like to live in that spot next to the jail house since his mom is going there for getting caught selling drugs. His mom then comes out to grab him and tell Billy they're going to see his grandpa.We meet the enderly Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) sitting in the waiting room of a hospital, checking out a magazine of his own and getting aroused at the sexual imagery. A nurse comes in to tell Irving that his wife had taken a turn for the worst, and she is now dead. After a brief moment of silence, Irving starts laughing, overjoyed that his wife is dead. He talks to his penis "Leroy" and says "We're free!" Irving leaves the hospital to get himself off, but unfortunately for him, the massage parlor and strip club are closed. Desperate, he sticks his penis in the slot of a vending machine. That's when he gets himself stuck and starts asking onlookers for help. He tries pulling his penis out, stretching it to an unnatural length before someone steps in to help.Irving attends his wife Ellie's (Catherine Keener, as a corpse) funeral with a whole group of strangers. He is surprised to see them all though he admits he and Ellie outlived all their friends. Just as he starts giving a speech, Billy and his mom Kimmie (Georgina Cates) barge in and Kimmie pulls Irving out to talk to him. She has a loud conversation with him saying she's going back to jail for violating her parole, and she orders Irving to make sure Billy stays with his father. Irving reluctantly agrees and they re-enter the church. Kimmie starts to steal a pearl necklace from Ellie's casket, but Irving goes to stop her. Their struggle ends up pushing Irving into the casket, spilling Ellie's corpse onto the floor to the horror of everyone in attendance.Irving takes Billy to a restaurant to meet with a counselor while they contact Billy's father Chuck (Greg Harris) via webcam to inform him of the current circumstances. Chuck turns out to be a deadbeat jerk who refuses to take Billy in as he cannot afford to. He proceeds to take a hit from his bong as his girlfriend comes in to remind him that he can get child support for Billy, so he instructs Irving to take Billy down to Raleigh, North Carolina to drop him off with Chuck by Sunday at 2:00.Irving later starts selling Ellie's belongings. He tries to sell her bed to a potential customer and then offers to test it out. He hands her a pad with a button to adjust the bed, but once she presses it, the bed folds rapidly, bending Irving repeatedly. The customer is then too freaked out to buy the bed. Later, Irving calls a couple of unwitting guys to come help take the bed out, though he really asks them to help him and Billy carry Ellie's body to the trunk of his car, since he felt that she needs to be taken south to be buried properly. Though disturbed, the two men help them and then leave before they are implicated in a crime.Irving and Billy hit the road not long after getting everything together. Billy says he's hungry, so Irving pulls over to a nearby market where a woman is selling food. He tries to hit on her while Billy goes on a kiddie ride outside the shop. He tells Irving that it's not working, forcing Irving to test it out. He ends up getting shot through the window as the ride springs off it's base, startling everybody else. Frustrated, Irving tries to ship Billy off to North Carolina in a box. He takes him to the post office, but because Billy keeps moving and speaking, the two women in the place open it and are shocked to find him in there. Before he can get in anymore trouble, he says he'll just take Billy back on the road.Irving leaves Billy in the car as he goes to a rec center to play Bingo with other older folks. Irving starts to drink the ink from the markers before pulling out a margarita maker and blending drinks for everybody. He mentions that he visited a country where lemon juice was squirted on a man's penis to determine if he had a disease, then proving his being clean by squirting lemon juice on his own penis. Irving then proceeds to hit on the women there, making them laugh or repulsing them. Meanwhile, Billy leaves the car to walk around and stop an older gentlemen to get him to tie his shoe. He keeps him talking for a few minutes while trying to coax the man into adopting him.The two stop in a supermarket when Billy gets hungry again. Irving takes food out from their containers and makes himself and Billy sandwiches, which is seen by the employees. A woman comes out to chastise Irving for eating without paying and criticize him for influencing Billy. Still, Irving gets Billy to smuggle some items and run from the manager, who yells at Irving even as he tries flirting.The two pull into a motel for the day. They pull Ellie's corpse out of the trunk since Irving thinks it would be disrespectful to leave it in the car, all while another man watches them in displeasure. Irving then asks the man if he knows where there is a strip club around here so he can seduce a black woman. The man points him out to one and he leaves Billy in the room.Irving goes to a club featuring male performers. He tells one of the dancers that he plans on waiting until the women are so aroused by the dancers for him to swoop in and make his move. He starts talking to a group of women, making them laugh despite is crass behavior. When the men start to dance, Irving jumps on the dance floor and pulls down his pants, revealing his balls that sag past his thighs. Everybody runs away while laughing in surprise and disgust.Meanwhile, Billy leaves the motel room to find Irving. He goes to another strip club and then to an adult book store. The book store employee offers to watch him while they find his grandpa, and Billy tells her that she looks like a stripper, naming her Cinnamon. Irving eventually comes back home before they have to hit the road again.As they near North Carolina, Irving tries to use Billy as bait to find a woman to hook up with. The women they speak to find Billy adorable, but they all turn Irving down. They drive to a diner where Irving drives the car into a large penguin statue, knocking it over and arguing with one of the employees about fixing it. In the diner, Billy asks why he has to stay with his dad when he doesn't like him very much. Irving insists that he has to go with him, and then he farts. They get into a gassy contest, which ends when Irving pushes too hard and sharts against a wall. They proceed to leave and later play some basketball while Billy asks Irving if he can take him fishing.On another misadventure, Billy gets hungry yet again and Irving takes him to a church where a wedding reception is taking place. During a group photo, Irving swipes a glass of champagne, causing the whole tower of glasses to collapse, and he ends up falling on top of the table, spilling the cake on the floor. Billy seizes the opportunity to eat some of the cake.Irving eventually drives Billy to a bar where they are meeting Chuck. Chuck is talking to a member of a biker organization called Guardians of Children, who help abused kids. Chuck explains that Billy will allow for him to get child support just as Irving and Billy walk in the door. Irving asks Chuck to make sure that Billy is well taken care of, though he rudely responds to Irving that he'll get the job done. Irving bids Billy farewell and they say they love each other, just as the GOC members watch the scene. As Irving leaves tearfully, one GOC member comes out to assure him that they'll keep their eyes on Billy. Irving drives away, but quickly starts to miss Billy and reminisces about their time on the road. He proceeds to turn the car around and drive back to the bar to get Billy back, just as Chuck is showing off his bad parenting by denying Billy any food in the place. Irving calls Billy to him, but Chuck prepares to fight the old man. The GOC members pull the two away from each other and allow Irving to leave with Billy while they hold Chuck off and warn him there will be trouble if he acts threateningly.To celebrate their reunion, Irving and Billy crash a child beauty pageant after spotting a flyer for it on their road trip earlier. Billy gets dressed up as a girl and charms most of the judges, even though one reigning child champion and her mother note the unusual event of a girl being there with a grandpa. Billy dresses up as a sailor girl to put on a show while "My Bunny Lies Over The Ocean" plays. It appears cute until Billy rips off the outfit to reveal him wearing women's underwear and then put on a risque pole dance to "Cherry Pie". The other parents and girls are stunned, and Irving tops it off by walking onstage and throwing Billy dollar bills. His wig falls off and the two run out.Irving drives up to a bridge where he and Billy finally get rid of Ellie's body by throwing it into the river. The two then proceed to fish, fulfilling Billy's desires.During the end credits are outtakes and behind-the-scenes looks at Johnny Knoxville performing as Irving in the outrageous stunts, and the reactions of all the unknowing extras when the filmmakers pop out to inform them that they're shooting a movie.The credits end with a dedication to the late Ryan Dunn.

Tags: prank, stupid, humor, boring, flashback

Review:
Despite all its low brow humor and childish gags Bad Grandpa is by far one of the funniest and seriously ingenious comedies of the year and when watched with the right mindset will be a thoroughly enjoyable 90 minutes at the movies.Played by a worryingly good Johnny Knoxville Irving Zisman is the titular bad grandpa, a man set upon every women he sees and a man that finds himself in many a hilarious situation.
Knoxville's strong inhabitation of Irving however would have been wasted if his grandson weren't such a mischievous delight as well.As played by child actor Jackson Nicholl Irving's grandson Billy is the perfect foil for the antics the film sets up and Nicholl displays a rare ability for a child to think on a whim and more than once he will have you laughing hysterically with his verbal comebacks or physical comedy (A highlight being the trailer centerpiece and films ace up the sleeve beauty pageant routine).
It's good to see Jackass stalwart and co-creator Jeff Tremaine handle both the situations and actors so well and one senses that this creation will set forward more projects under the similar vein of real life candid cameras mixed with a anchoring plot line.Obviously not for everyone and more likely to offended than not Bad Grandpa is still a must see for all comedy fans and even if Jackass is not your usual cup of lime juice Bad Grandpa offers up a welcome deviation from the usual Jackass presentations and a showpiece for just how funny Knoxville is when given the right material.4 knocked over penguins out of 5 For more movie reviews and opinions head over to - www.jordanandeddie.wordpress.com.
Surprisingly, it's a gamble that pays off: Bad Grandpa is frequently as funny as it is in bad taste.The ostensible plot of it all goes something like this: Irving Zisman (Knoxville) is saddled with his grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) when his flaky daughter is sent to prison and his wife Ellie (Catherine Keener - yes, really!) passes away.
Along the way, they meet people from all walks of life: most of them unsuspecting, several of them kind, all of them pretty good sports.Much of the thrill of watching Bad Grandpa comes from knowing that it is a hidden-camera comedy - one that draws its greatest laughs and amusement from people who have no clue that Irving isn't actually a senior citizen.
The great surprise is Nicoll, a child with the most perfectly deadpan of faces - he's hilariously convincing whether he's asking a complete stranger to adopt him or re-enacting a scenario reminiscent of Abigail Breslin's wildly inappropriate grind-bump dance in Little Miss Sunshine.This is - evidently - very far from great cinema, even though director Jeff Tremaine does actually manage to sneak a little more sentiment and plot into the film than you might expect.
I really did try to like the first couple of Jackass movies, but they were more sporadic laughs and face palming, than comedy gold.
Bad Grandpa (2013) **** (out of 4) Johnny Knoxville dresses up as old man Irving Zisman and takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina to take his grandson (Jackson Nicoll) back to his real father.
We get stuff dealing with the old man's sex life, his dead wife, various scenes of him playing drunk and causing trouble and of course there are some of the moments that everyone saw in the trailer like the beauty pageant.
its nice to see true reactions of people to insane behavior, and personally a little sad that the Jackass gang got so famous that we would never get to see another movie like Jackass 1, but with Knoxville all "Dunn" up like a old man gave him the chance to do it one more time.a lot of people this this is crude humor and penis jokes.
That being said, this movie was a one star film, I give it two because of the beauty pageant scene, which was really the only moment when I laughed out loud.
That's the movie...There is a few laughs in this film that's from the creators of Jackass, a TV show about practical jokes and hurting oneself for the sake of hilarious humiliation.
The little, chubby sidekick had one or two good moments, nothing of any real interest."Bad Grandpa" is certainly the weakest installment in the "Jackass"-franchise, lacking all the crazy, painful stunts that made it so popular, and definitely it is a total waste of money and time.
This flick is half the real, crazy, way out MTV's Jackass pranks and a very boring fake story line of a Grandpa driving his Grandson from Missouri to North Carolina.
Much like Sacha Baron Cohen did with Borat, Knoxville has taken a supporting character from an existing show and attempted to place a story around him, however unlike Borat this falls very flat on its face.The main premise here is that Irving is asked to transport his grandson Billy cross country and deliver him to his selfish father after Billy's mother is told she is going to jail.
Bad Grandpa is a good movie with a pretty good storyline and really good performances from those who are acting.Most of the movie is hidden camera as Johnny Knoxville playing an old man is communicating with real people who have no idea they are being filmed for a movie,this works out really well and most of the scenes are full of cringe and it is impossible not to laugh.Johnny Knoxville does a very good job as Irving Zisman,he really got interested in this character and it wasn't until I saw a sign that said Knoxville towards the end of the movie that I had completely forgotten it was Knoxville,he puts on a voice very similar to Stan Lee's and play's a really convincing and strange old man from start to finish.The grandson Jackson Nicoll does a very good job as well,I found his comic timing very impressive for a boy his age.I am not a fan of Jackass but I really enjoyed this movie,though I think Jackass fans will enjoy it,it's different enough for people outside the Jackass audience to enjoy,because the humour isn't just watching people get hurt and there is also a storyline.I would recommend Bad Grandpa to anyone who enjoys hidden camera comedies and just comedy in general.When his daughter is sent to jail,Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) takes his grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) on a road trip across the country to take him to his irresponsible father.They get up to some crazy antics around complete strangers along the way.Best Performance: Johnny Knoxville Worst Performance: Georgina Cates.
Nothing New. I feel like I just watched an extended version of the trailer, compared to other works of Knoxville this was definitely below par, I was bored throughout the movie and only stayed to watch the scenes that I had seen in the trailer which was the reason I went, but apart from those scenes everything was disappointing.
Unfortunately, though, he goes solo for the first time in 'Jackass' history in this brilliant spin- off film, 'Bad Grandpa'.The film revolves around Jackass' horny pensioner, Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville), who is given the task of driving his impressionable 8 year old grandson, Billy (Jackson Nicoll) across America to get him to his deadbeat father when his mother is jailed.In a change of the original formula, this instalment of the hidden- camera prank series sees a very loose narrative that is accompanied by several 'Jackass' stunts and pranks.
This kid is easily the best part about the movie, everything he does in the film, he does with fearlessness and class, stealing scenes from Johnny Knoxville and capturing hearts.The story includes all of the immature, raunchy moments that you would expect to see from 'Jackass', it features all of the uncomfortable reaction shots and the gross- out gags, but surprisingly, it also has a lot of sweet moments, too.
The disc will have some extra funny bits, different takes on some of the things in the movie.But it all feels like this is Jackass mixed with a bit of Borat for good measure.
Irving finds himself having to drive his grandson across America to be raised by his father after his mother, Irving's daughter, goes to prison.This sounds like it could be funny but instead of telling a genuinely funny story, it's Jackass style, which means it's shot with hidden cameras and of no intelligence.
From shitting on walls to getting children drunk, all the usual stupidity is here but it's rarely funny or original, even for Jackass standards.The story is somewhere between Bad Santa and Little Miss Sunshine but doesn't come close to either of those films because, even when it's not obviously setting-up the scene for a mindless stunt, it doesn't have the ability to make us feel anything but disgust.Too few guilty laughs, if any, make Bad Grandpa just another bad movie..
I have seen the Jackass movies and actually have laughed through most of them but this film was pathetic .
There will be pleasant surprises along the way, particularly in the bikers' bar, when the child finds some unexpected support.Don't worry Knoxville is still using his candid camera approach for many of the scenes, continues to find ways to amuse himself and the audience goes along for the ride, enjoying inspirational moments that let you believe there is hope for just about everyone in this world, regardless of their crude behavior as long as there is a heart that beats strong and is able to feel real love..
Bad Grandpa is the fan-favorite skit from the show Jackass, where Johnny Knoxville pretends to be an old man to see how much shenanigans he can pull off, stretched into an hour and a half film.
The runtime is just perfect.All of the jokes are funny and the stunts are all real.Pros: Hilarious story, good acting by Johnny Knoxville and Jackson Nicoll, great use of real people, fast pacing, a good runtime, and all of the jokes and stunts were funnyCons: Some slow pacing towards the endOverall Rating: 8.2.
The best part was seeing the reactions of the people in the film, and even better was watching the end credits.Jeff Tremaine's latest Jackass entry focuses on a 86-year old man named Irving who must take a cross-country trip with his 8-year-old grandson to hand him to his estranged father.
Johnny Knoxville of course plays Grandpa very well and looked nearly unrecognizable in that makeup of his, which actually garnered this film an Academy Award nomination surprisingly enough.Overall, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa is funnier than I have anticipated and it is definitely worth watching.
Clown extraordinaire, Johnny Knoxville, goes in search of big laughs as Bad Grandpa.There is a story that carries the pranks, it's not important but it works.
If you like this kind of humour you may suffer a heart attack.It's candid camera with Knoxville as a cantankerous old man, recently widowed enjoying his freedom and he ends up having to take his abandoned grandson to his dads house.There's a series of pranks interwoven in the story in this buddy movie.
If you like that kind of humor, then you are in for a treat.Johnny Knoxville keeps his character consistent and the little kid (Jackson Nicoll) does a good job too.
Where they've started off being funny, they're now just pushing the boundaries of dangerous and bad taste.Bad Grandpa is a great story idea which had its moments, but it could've been so much more than it was.No doubt, Johnny Knoxville played a great character- he did it well, but it wasn't enough to save the movie.Sadly, the preview clips show the highlights I think.Sure I got a laugh at some of it, but there was just as much that was predicable and not funny..
I went into this with very low expectations since I really did not enjoy the previous Jackass films, but this was a surprisingly good movie.
Here with the Jackass king, Johnny Knoxville plays as this rude, perverted, funny old man trying to get his grandson back to his dad.
Seeing the people's reaction are priceless as ever, the kid in the movie did a pretty good job, and Johnny Knoxville took it to a whole new level.8.5/10.
The Bouncing back and fourth between a written screenplay, and candid reaction worked out perfectly.A great laugh all around, and i thought it was very funny some of the reactions people gave in awkward situations.This is not an emmy award winning comedy, the plot is very simple, and the film will not have you leaving the theater with an acknowledgement of a deeper moral lesson.This is a fun movie that tried something different, and ultimately pulled it off incredibly well.
Bad Grandpa tries to deliver an actual story, in the best way a movie like this can.
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.
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.
Although it's obscene,vulgar,dirty and lewd is outrageous funniest comedy since Borat...Knoxville is a genius really,some scenes are totally unexpected for those whose caught in the hidden camera,the highlights are stuck in vending machine is a crying shame,the funeral is embarrassing,fishing Moby Dick is a shameless scene,restaurant is awful dirty,Penguin is dangerous,ladies night is most original idea of all time and adjustable bed is scary and a lot of bonus material with deleted scenes....oh my God l've been waited for my own Blu-ray to watch it again a full lenght movie!!
From the beginning of the film Bad Grandpa, regulars will be familiar with Johnny Knoxville's Irving Zisman persona, and the theory that one can get away with anything if you're disguised as a lecherous, liver-spotted old man is taken even further when Zisman reluctantly takes a road trip with his nine-year-old grandson, with hidden- camera gags along the way.Bad Grandpa comes across as disjointed and aimless.
I will say that Johnny Knoxville's old man makeup was flawless though and probably the best thing of the movie.
Initially against his will, Irving takes Billy on a road trip in which ends up turning into an adventure of hilarious shenanigans and stunts.Filmed in documentary style, much like the television series and movies, this hysterical spin-off presents viewers with a insanely crude, yet funny experience with the two main characters engaging in hilarious pranks and mischief that often results in appalled or amused reactions from extras on screen.
They present their characters with such amazing comedic chemistry.Bad Grandpa may go a bit overboard at times, but it is a faithful and stunningly hilarious spiritual successor to the Jackass films, and Jeff Tramaine does a great job directing this.
When Knoxville and his writing partners figured out a way to make Zisman's antics into a feature film, a highly inappropriate grandfather figure was born."Bad Grandpa" is part "Jackass" and part "Borat".
It was better than I expected from watching the trailer.The movie is built as an actual film with a story, which incorporates a candid camera in each scene.
OK it's not an all time classic hence the 7/10 instead of a 9 or 10 but it's still very enjoyable.I'm a big fan of both the Jackass TV series and movies, I thought a lot of what they did was very entertaining and it's very hard to shock me so I loved their crude stuff as well.
However I have to say even thought it wasn't as crude as the Jackass movies a lot of the pranks and stunts were still very funny and because they aren't very crude they may even appeal to a wider audience.There is a small storyline inserted as well, which is no harm because it explains why this child is in the full time care of the rude, sleazy and often hilarious 86 year old Irving Zisman (Knoxville) but it doesn't get in the way of any jokes, in fact if anything it adds to the jokes.Johnny Knoxville does his best work with Jeff Tremaine and always looks far more at home under the 'Jackass Logo' and this movie is no different, he's hilarious as the Grandpa.
This movie was worth the watch it was really funny but poor child who had to act the part :) he was so so so cute the kid did very well, it would have been a blast making this movie and hanging out johnny Knoxville even dressed as grandpa :) there were some really good belly laughs in this movie which was awesome i would watch it again some of the acts were really bad tho i was shocked with some of the things happening which is why i guess i gave it a 5 but yea over all it was a good movie about a grandfather and his poor unwanted grandson as i said before i liked it :).
Johnny was convincing as an old guy, the kid did his job well, the real people's reactions were interesting and at times funny.
Much like Borat the best part of this movie is watching the people react to what is going on.
Following in the 'Borat' mould of playing pranks on the unsuspecting public, the movie sees Knoxville disguise himself as the titular grandpa – the lecherous Irving Zisman, who embarks on a road trip with his nine-year-old grandson, Billy, played impressively by Jackson Nicoll, who often out-acts Knoxville when it comes to the comedy.