Plot
86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 7.2/10 (2,304 voted)
Director:Jeff Tremaine
Storyline
Eighty-six-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy, in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa". This October, the signature Jackass characters Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places, and situations that give new meaning to the term "childrearing". The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.
In 2000 a show started airing on MTV that had a group of guys
performing stunts. These were not just regular stunts, these were
stunts that required a "don't try this at home warning" before every
show. I never was a fan, or I thought I wasn't, the problem was I never
actually sat down and watched it. Well it was such a success the guys
took their antics to the big screen, and that is where I discovered the
joy of Jackass.
Johnny Knoxville can take a hit, as well as everyone in his crew. Now,
while some things border on disgusting, in the end you can do nothing
but laugh at just how far these guys will go. Unlike the previous
movies/ TV show, "Bad Grandpa" is a different approach, but provides
just as many laughs. Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) has just lost his
wife. To make things more complicated, his daughter drops off his
grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll), so that Irving can take him to his
father who lives cross country. The deal is, it's all fake. The purpose
of the trip is to catch people's reaction to everything from stealing,
destroying property, and even crashing a kid beauty pageant. They do
this all while having Irving's dead wife in the trunk. It is all done
for laughs, and trust me you will have plenty of those as you watch
this movie.
It is easy to be like how I was before I actually watched these guys in
action and judge them as idiots. In the end they may be idiots, but
they will make you laugh, and at times cry. I know these movies are not
for everyone, but for those of you who go see it, you will have a great
time. You get to see a picture of Middle America and the many
characters we have living in this great country. I haven't laughed as
hard in a movie in a long time, and I have seen a lot of so called
comedies this year alone that did very little to bring the funny. So
don't be like me, don't judge this book by its cover. Go see "Bad
Grandpa" because the world is a much better place with laughter, and
this movie provides plenty of it.
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