You can see all the other contestants' mothers staring shocked and in disbelief, as if what they were doing to their daughters was any better. Whether Irving is at a bingo center, diner or postal office Johnny Knoxville inhabits him wholly and completely that one forgets we are watching a pretend old man. I didn't have expectations for Bad Grandpa; none good at least. Unfortunately, his joy is soon ruined, as his daughter leaves her son Irving's grandson Billy Jackson Nicoll with him because she's being sent to jail for drug use. The purpose of the trip is to catch people's reaction to everything from stealing, destroying property, and even crashing a kid beauty pageant. I'm not going to go into great detail about the various pranks in the film because it's best to go in without knowing too many of them.
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. I'm really surprised that I didn't mind this child actor, as I normally have a problem against their type. In conclusion, I don't know why everybody seems to hate this movie: there are just a few fart jokes in it, everything they do is really funny, and there's even a story you can follow and characters you can learn to love. I always considered Jackass to be silly in an unfunny way, and I was never much of a fan of pranks in general, so I was immediately turned off by Bad Grandpa. They do this all while having Irving's dead wife in the trunk. Nicoll though, killed it as Billy. It's oh-so-silly but that's the point.
It had me laughing the majority of the way through, and I honestly couldn't believe what they were doing in public. Knoxville is great as the ever-horny, foul mouthed old man, especially as he manages not to laugh at all of the sketches he put up and, in case some of you haven't realized this, he's completely shameless: for example, he agreed to pretend to have his penis stuck in a vending machine, among other things! I will say that this here doesn't resort to physical violence all that much, although there are a couple examples. Brian Taylor Bad Grandpa is a film I certainly wasn't anticipating. 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. 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. Whilst not nearly the best comedy released in 2013, this is surely the funniest.
Irving Zisman Johnny Knoxville has just lost his wife. The various situations the two find themselves in are certainly the highlight of the picture as we get some downright shocking scenes. 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. If you want to have fun and you haven't seen Bad Grandpa yet, do it, because you're guaranteed to laugh for the entire duration of the movie! I was pleasantly surprised though! 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. I'm going to keep this short and to the point. Johnny Knoxville is fantastic as Irving, an incredibly raunchy and hilarious 86 year old man.
In short, this movie looked like another comedic failure to me, but amazingly it proved to be very funny and entertaining. 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. The story is fairly simple: Irving Zisman Johnny Knoxville is an 86 years old man whose wife has just died, and that makes him very happy, since he's now free to pick up young women. Unlike a lot of people my age, I don't support Jackass, or enjoy any of their films. 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.
Despite the fact that a lot of these jokes presented are incredibly over the top, I really enjoyed the comedy here. It is all done for laughs, and trust me you will have plenty of those as you watch this movie. His grandson within the film, Billy, played by Jackson Nicoll, is awesome as well, managing to create some fantastic scenarios which will leave you in stitches. 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. Thrown into real life prank situations, he steals the show, pranking people in some bizarre and incredible ways that I just couldn't stop laughing at! The deal is, it's all fake. Irving is supposed to take Billy to his father, and he accepts just to get rid of the kid, even if he doesn't like the kid's father and so, a quasi-road trip movie begins. 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.
Like, if someone tried to mail a child and the post office employees found that out, in a movie they would immediately call the police. The film really is a laugh riot from the opening scene to the very last one and a lot of credit has to go to Knoxville and the various writers. I think the film is remarkably funny and I'd probably call it one of the funniest films I've seen in a very long time. Now, while some things border on disgusting, in the end you can do nothing but laugh at just how far these guys will go. The main focus is just this weird old man who puts his grandson into all sorts of bad situations and usually makes them worse. .
If you love pranks, or Jackass, or both, you'll adore this film! It must be said also that some of the film's most quiet and funny moments come from Knoxville merely waltzing about town in full old man get up, waving and traipsing about his business as passer byes are none the wiser. So don't be like me, don't judge this book by its cover. In the end they may be idiots, but they will make you laugh, and at times cry. The story isn't really that important, since this is a hidden camera movie, but it's nice to see that the writers didn't just dismiss the story for that reason and didn't make this movie a collection of unfunny and loosely connected sketches that are going nowhere like Grown ups 2. 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. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy. There are even moments that you'll see coming from a mile away but then you'll get a twist that will just have tears running down your face.
Jackson Nicoll, who plays Billy, is one of the best child actors I've seen in a long time. You get to see a picture of Middle America and the many characters we have living in this great country. But despite this, surprisingly, I adored Bad Grandpa! I never was a fan, or I thought I wasn't, the problem was I never actually sat down and watched it. Jackass knows how to make pranks work, and here is easily their best work. Knoxville's strong inhabitation of Irving however would have been wasted if his grandson weren't such a mischievous delight as well. It is easy to be like how I was before I actually watched these guys in action and judge them as idiots.
Johnny Knoxville can take a hit, as well as everyone in his crew. He's extremely convincing and talented, and even if you don't like kids in general or in movies , you'll end up loving Billy. There aren't any other relevant actors in the movie, but the people's reactions to the pranks are priceless. 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. They just seem a little too over the top for my liking. 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.