Grandma's Boy: Critic Reviews

[The film] does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows.

This vulgar stoner comedy about an underachieving, over-age video-game tester cheerfully invites the audience to descend to a level where no joke is too silly or raunchy.

No one here has the slightest idea what being elderly actually means or that old folks may once have been (and may still be) far hipper than the young men and women looking at them with fond incomprehension.

Even silly fun needs serious talent behind it.

The Sandler-patented mix of the deliberately offensive and the blatantly sentimental loses something in the maestro's absence.

Nicholaus Goossen, another Sandler protege, makes an inauspicious directing debut with this limp collection of cliches larded with product plugs.

I may require therapy after seeing this.

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

This is one of those movies where you stay rooted in your seat just to see how bad it can really get. And every time you think it has hit the bottom, the filmmakers find a passage taking them lower.

The veteran actresses who co-star in this stoner comedy have an Oscar and multiple Emmys and Tonys among them, but it's unlikely they'll have to clear any more space on their mantels for Grandma's Boy.

It's as aimless and pointless as a joke told while stoned.

Absolutely dreadful and offensive comedy.

Even if you aren't under the influence, you might find yourself chuckling at various points during the movie, if only in disbelief at some of the things the cast is asked to do.

If nothing else, Grandma's Boy answers the question of what a ramshackle early Adam Sandler movie would be like without Adam Sandler.

Hilarity fails to ensue in the workplace or at home, in spite of the late introduction of a fighting, driving monkey.

better than some sandler movies

...one puerile, thoroughly unfunny joke after another...

The chief value of this stinker is as a glimpse of how bad Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and The 40-Year-Old Virgin might have been if they'd been written by Covert, Barry Wernick and Nick Swardson, and directed by Nicholaus Goossen.

Covert is so obnoxious, so lacking in the basic understanding of comic timing, that we understand why he has to get his buddy Sandler to give him work.

Grandma's Boy is a better series of spoofs than anything we currently see on that show. It's an affectionate and tight-knit comedy.