Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

Plot synopsis:
A small-town manchild with big buck-teeth, Bucky Larson (Nick Swardson), stumbles upon a family secret: His quiet and reserved parents (Edward Herrmann and Miriam Flynn) were famous porn stars in the 1970s. This motivates him to leave northern Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps and fulfill his destiny as the biggest adult-film star in the world. Unfortunately, he has no idea how to become a porn star like his parents, and his penis is incredibly small.
Through a series of misunderstandings, he gets a job as a porn actor with fading director Miles Deep (Don Johnson). He makes several films, and achieves a certain fame when his small penis makes women appreciate their partner's endowment. Along the way he meets and falls in love with Kathy (Christina Ricci), a kindhearted waitress. After becoming incredibly famous, Bucky learns he just wants to be with Kathy; she rejects him without explanation, however, leaving him brokenhearted. During a film shoot, Miles confesses that he had told Kathy to leave Bucky so he could have his prize star all to himself. Bucky forgives Miles and goes after Kathy, who is on a horrible date with another porn star, the well-endowed Dick Shadow (Stephen Dorff). Bucky declares his love, and the two get married. After one year, Bucky opens his own famous steakhouse. One night, his former roommate (Kevin Nealon) comes into the restaurant and yells at him for owing him rent money, and tells Bucky he is "just like John Mayer".

Tags: adult comedy

Review:
It uses the same three jokes the entire movie: Bucky has buck teeth, he shoots semen at the mere sight of a naked girl, and he has a tiny penis covered with a bush of hair.
Boogie Nights treated its characters as flawed human beings searching for acceptance and a feeling of belonging -- Bucky Larson's characters are all supposed to be laughed at and there are just too many times throughout the movie which had me wanting to rush to the bathroom to vomit as 89% of the film is stomach-churning.This should pretty-much END the career of anybody involved and I am actually surprised that Adam Sandler's name is attached as both a writer and a producer of this trash (Sandler also gave us Jack and Jill and Just Go With It this year -- the latter film is only saved b/c of the over-the-top performance of the unlikely physical comedienne Nicole Kidman -- so I question whether or not his days are numbered?).An unfunny-to-me Nick Swardson (Just Go With It, 30 Minutes or Less, Blades of Glory) -- who's career is mostly stand-up comedy -- stars as the grotesquely buck-toothed Bucky Larson (who must've been born with buck-teeth?) who believes he is destined for a glorious career in porn after discovering his parents were au natural (meaning: unshaven, un-waxed, un-spray-tanned, un-fit etc) porn stars of the 1970's.
but let's throw-out another stupid laugh at the expense of the heartland) heads to LA where his dreams can come true.Bucky luckily meets a nice, big-hearted waitress (Christina Ricci - Sleepy Hollow, Penelope, Monster ...
This film deserves to be in the bottom 250 on IMDb. With the talent that was involved in the project and the premise of a porn comedy, "Bucky Larson" should have been funny.
Honestly, some people on here need to have a good look at themselves and wonder exactly why it is they are watching movies they know they aren't going to like.
I for one hope he keeps churning them out because when I have a bit of time to kill, I can think of worse ways to do that than watching one of Adam Sandler's movies..
"Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star" bombed big time when it was released to theaters.
The cast is spirited, but they can do absolutely nothing with the terrible script.Oh, one more piece of evidence for its badness: The end credits for this 2011 release list a 2010 copyright, suggesting that Columbia Pictures didn't know what to do with the movie for quite some time..
This film should be the death-knell of not only Nick Swardson's entire career, but Adam Sandler's "Happy Madison" production company should be banned from making any more movies until Sandler publicly apologizes for this horrible horrible waste of film.
I have already watched hundreds of bad comedies and about 20 Adam Sandler movies and this operates on another league of greatness.
This movie is about a red neck,bucked tooth,goofy kid name Bucky who dreamed of being a pornstar in California after realizing his parents were famous pornstar during the 1970's.He soon became famous for his really small microscopic penis.The worst part was that this movie had a lack of storyline.It had no climax.It wasn't exciting.
I think Sandler gave us another great dark comedy that will be loved by a small group of people, and hated by most.
I think Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star deserves an 8/10 and it's unfortunate that people these days can't handle a great comedy just because it's dirty.
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star was funny and stupid all in one..
I thought Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star was funny and stupid all in one.
Yes, some of the humor was off or one could even say stupid without the funny, however for the most part this was a better then average comedy.This movie made you laugh because of the above mentioned absurdity of the subject matter.
There's just something funny about watching messed up people in movies.Bucky Larson has 2 bucked teeth, making him look like a rabbit.
I just watched Bucky Larson: Born To Be a Star primarily because I've heard that it is one of the worst movies ever made.
The movie concerns the titular character (Nick Swardson) and his "destiny" to enter the porn industry after discovering that his parents were porn stars in the 1970's.
Along the way, he meets Kathy, a kind waitress (Christina Ricci), Miles Deep, a washed-up porn producer (Don Johnson), Dick Shadow, a porn star that lives up to his name (Stephen Dorff), as well as various other characters.
Bucky wants to be "a star" in "nude movies" but he has trouble breaking into it because of his small penis.The humor is childish, at best,(there is an endless amount of tiny penis and big teeth jokes)It qualifies as "stupid funny".
Personally, the only times I laughed were during the scenes with Kevin Nealon's "roommate from hell" character, and the facial expressions of Nick Swardson.
Overall, compared to other movies that I've given the dreaded 1 star to, Bucky Larson has to be the best.
Just know that P.T. Barnum was right; "There's a sucker born every minute." One or more suckers sank ten million bucks into this dogs' breakfast.On the plus side, watching the movie is better than getting a slap in the face with a wet fish.1/10 - Double fail.
We come to expect movies to have way to much drama, and long scenes of terrible progression but Bucky didn't annoy me like that.
Bucky Larson was a bad movie that was funny.
Mom and Pop, even though they had starred in porno back in the day, came across as loving proud parents and Bucky had obviously embraced good social values.The normalization of the porn industry was well handled and yet the essential goodness of faithfulness was also brought to the fore.All in all an amusing evening and the enjoyment of seeing some sensitive issues handled with a deft touch.
He's a lovable and gentle hearted outsider but unknowingly has no inhibitions, & it is his genuinely played innocence that makes this such a laugh out load movie, & Christina Ricci, Don Johnson are great supporting actors..
or maybe they just have an inner fear of laughing at something that's meant to be silly; and if so they really shouldn't be watching comedies in that case.....anyway; In my opinion Bucky Larson does sit low on the Happy Madison scale, around the same mark as 'I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry', 'Paul Blart Mall Cop' and 'Dickie Roberts'...
Maybe he works best with himself and himself only locked in a sound-proof room where he can be alone with his thoughts.Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison Productions company have now just given me one of the least ambitious comedies I have ever seen.
If it's not funny the first time, it definitely won't be the second, the third, or even the forth time around.Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star didn't upset me as much as some would think.
It's a movie experience of deplorable, unforgivable quality.Starring: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, and Stephen Dorff.
This simplistic comedy centres around the buck teeth-challenged Bucky Larson (Nick Swardson) and his dream to become a famous porn star, irregardless of his minuscule manhood.
Don Johnson possibly needed the money, but the presence of Christina Ricci and Stephen Dorff in this bona fide turd is a true mystery.Lumbering along with tirades of trite jokes, this monstrosity of a movie does not even invoke laughter as to how bad it is, instead imbuing an overbearing notion of boredom.
The Adam Sandler-produced Nick Swardson vehicle "Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star" is arguably one of the most dead-on-arrival comedies of the past decade.
Jokes are all phoned-in and are the sort 13-year-old boys snicker at to each other, and the writing is downright offensively bad.Nick Swardson plays Bucky Larson, a simpleton with an outlandish set of buck-teeth.
"Bucky Larson" is so bad, even "Grandma's Boy" made Grandma a nice big piece of sugar cookies.Bottom Line: This is one of the worst obese films of 2011 and as I could recall to Bucky Larson, I should re-name my title "Bucky Larson: Born to Suck Every Adam Sandler movie and let my critics throw Subway sandwiches at me." Nick Swordswan, you deserved a Razzie for that and Worst Picture..
And that alone makes the plot unbelievable.I suppose there is a whole, "even guys with small dick's deserve love and can get a hot girl" message there somewhere, but its clouded by stupidity, and its never very moving, because there is just NO CHANCE Christina Ricci would ever touch "Bucky Larson" - Stephen Dorf has a line in the movie "Am I in the Twilight Zone?" That is the only place where the story of this movie would ever be even remotely believable.And to make matters worse, there is ONE conflict and it happens in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
I'm a huge fan of Adam Sandler's films and for the most part, I like Nick Swardson.
When Bucky gets a roommate, the dude (Kevin Nealon) is such a jerk that you wish he hung himself and left the poor guy alone.The entire film is predictable and Stephen Dorff looks like Bret Michaels, which isn't a good thing.
I think there are plenty of laugh out loud moments, and honestly, If you like Nick Swardson you'll find plenty of entertainment in this movie.
"I'm the son of two movie stars...that's like a super-duper movie star." Bucky Larson (Swardson) is working as a bagger at a grocery store when he gets into a fight with his manager.
This unconditional acceptance soon blossoms into something beautiful, and this is what I think is the redeeming feature of the film."Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" might be better if the focus is shifted to being food for thought about the state of vanity and judging a person based on external attributes..
But, if you like raunchy humor, this movie will keep you in stitches from start to end.Swardson plays Bucky, a buck-toothed Dutch-boy coiffed loser from Iowa who learns that his parents (now farmers) used to be porn stars in the '70's and takes a bus to Hollywood to get into the industry.
I don't understand why it's gotten so much hate, Nick Swardson's character is so funny you'll laugh just by looking at him, the script is insane and entertaining and the jokes are raunchy but there's a sweetness to the whole film that stops it from being pure gross-out.
Nick Swardson's character, Bucky Larson, really relies on others for laughs and it's a unique character so it is hard to critique.
Watch other movies like 'Shawshank Redemption' 'Batman: Darknight' or the basic and generic 'Babby Driver' none of these movies compare to the sophisticated 'Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star'.
Bucky Larson the character is the definition of raw perfection and 'Nick Swardson' the actor is very talented.
this movie was a blatant and unfunny rip off of Boogie Nights and A Star Is Born, and on top of that some scenes make you want to hurl instead of laugh.
It may not sweep the Oscars or be the topic of any Stephen Fry after-dinner speech, however this is a film thats gonna lift your spirits and make you realise however serious you think life is there are always going to be a handful of people willing to make "Art" in the name of stupidity!!I for one will offer them my vote!!I could try and extend my words to explain the little details but i think bullet points may please certain readers up at this late hour.*Nick Swarsdon *Don Johnson *Christina Ricci *It's an 18 Certificate (When was the last time we saw one of those eh?Plus: Drum Roll please it has a cameo from Dante (Grandma's Boy)So now you know where i look for my comedy fix pretty broad i guess,don't get me wrong i thought "We need to talk about Kevin" was the best British comedy since Four Weddings.....DjHw"I know you touched my Drum-stick and i just wanna hear that dirty little mouth admit it" (c)Dale Doback.
How does a movie like Bucky Larson get made?
The only logical explanation I can come to for this movie's existence is that Mr. Sandler has some very incriminating photos of someone at Columbia Pictures.Our title hero, Bucky (played by comedian Nick Swardson), is a dweeb.
Seconds into watching the film, Bucky recognizes the stars as being his parents.
It's at that moment he decides that it's his destiny to be a star as well, and decides to head to California and make it in "nude movies".Bucky arrives in Hollywood with big dreams, but seemingly little common sense, as when he auditions for a mac and cheese commercial, and immediately drops his pants and starts jerking off in front of the horrified director and casting crew.
The first person Bucky meets is the porn star Dick Shadow (Stephen Dorff), who is currently the biggest thing in the movies (in more ways than one), and immediately shuns him.
I find myself returning to my original question, how does a movie like Bucky Larson get made?
The movie repeats these same jokes many times, as if it thinks if it repeats them enough, it will wear down our defenses, and we'll eventually start laughing.Back to the plot - Bucky's disastrous audition winds up on the Internet, and becomes a sensation.
When I saw Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star out of curiosity- though I did have reservations about seeing it starting with the trailer and Adam Sandler co-penning the script- online, I found next to nothing to love or admire about it.The film looks cheap for starters, more in the slapdash editing and cinematography and dull lighting than the scenery.
Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star has some of the worst direction I have seen in a movie in quite a while, as all the basic tools of direction like camera placement and continuity Brady seems to be ignoring here.Story-wise this just didn't engage.
It is not funny at all, just dumb, puerile and irritating, with no heart whatsoever.When it comes to the pace, the film has no life to it, because the dialogue and jokes are so bad(seriously the penis that was so small you could use a straw for a condom idea was incredibly stupid) and no effort is made in regards to the characters, who are little more than stiff caricatures at best.
There were some very funny moments with Bucky's landlord (Kevin Nealon) and it was sort of romantic in the end how this idiot from Iowa hooks up with a babe waiter in Hollywood but the ultimate result for this movie is a failure because its just time consuming blather if you don't find Swardson's thick midwest accent amusing.
Did the world famous "Jack and Jill" (co-writer) Adam Sandler and Going-Nowhere-Fast Nick Swardson INTENTIONALLY set out to make the world's worst comedy?Seriously.
The plot: Sandler protégé Nick Swardson (clearly the Rob Scheider of our time) plays Bucky Larson, a thirty-something, mentally retarded man-child living in Iowa with his conservative parents.
One day after being fired from work, his friends try to cheer him up by watching "nude movies" only to find that Bucky's parents were once successful porn stars in the 70s.
The IMDb guidelines for user review state that you should avoid "Profanity, obscenities, or spiteful remarks." No other movie has made me want to add all three as much as Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star.
I would hate to see what comes next from him because "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" sucks on so many levels of shameful stupidity, it is sad.
The easy way to some up this film would be: "A boring kid with buck teeth, hence "Bucky" becomes a pornstar when directors see him masturbate and screech like a monkey." How does that sound?Would it surprise you if you knew Adam Sandler was the writer to this s**t?
If they want to attempt to dull my intelligence with this, I am going to burn them as well for making an awful movie that no one should have to see.Nick plays the titular character who is a manchild and lives with his mom and dad in some small town and Bucky comes off as this innocent kid, to which he is, but he doesn't seem all that smart.
Enter all of Adam Sandler's moron friends, because they only star in his movies, and the film has gone to total s**t.
Nick Swardson: Born to Be Bucky Larson..
Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011): Dir: Tom Brady / Cast: Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Don Johnson, Stephen Dorff, Kevin Nealon: Aimed at the lowest common denominator yet it references the fact that everyone has a purpose in life.
Nick Swardson plays the buck-toothed Bucky whose unappealing physical appearance and small manhood render him a star in the adult film industry but what is interesting here is what Larson will find truly important and how he renders stardom upon how others see you.
She is great, but other cast members don't seem to be taking the movie as seriously as she, but that's probably because they are all mates of Sandler.Its highly predictable, things are going rest for Bucky, something knocks him back, but all comes good at the end.So its not very good, there are a few funny moments, but the film is saved by Ricci and Johnson, playing way above everyone else..
All jokes aside, Sandler's LITTLE NICKY (2000) makes BUCKY LARSON look like a Best Picture Oscar contender.
Once I saw the previews for this movie with Nick Swardson, I had to watch it.
If you enjoy Adam Sandler type 90's comedies, I think you'll like Bucky Larson.