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Film: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Release Date (UK): 25th October 2013
IMDb rating: 6.9 out of 10
BigBox rating: 6.5 out of 10
Summary: 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.
You will like this film if: If you love Jackass films and the TV show, enjoy a good bit of crude humour, love real reaction comedy, fan of Johnny Knoxville.
You will not like this film if: Hate crude humour or have no sense of humour at all, hate Johnny Knoxville, never enjoyed Jackass.
The Review
There are only two actors really that can be discussed here, due to the nature of the film. If you are unaware of Jackass, they love to play pranks on real people, getting real reactions. Beginning with the most known here, Johnny Knoxville. He is playing an old man called Irving - which is one of his iconic characters from the Jackass TV show. This character is a very bad role model, he is perverted and just extremely irresponsible, so you know when he gets custody of a young 8 year old child, bad things are going to occur. Johnny Knoxville is surprisingly very professional in this film, even though it has a not so serious storyline. He is so good that half the time I forget it was even him playing the character. There isn't much to say about him, except that he is just good and this character is genius. Now, moving onto the child he has to look after, Billy played by Jackson Nicoll. He is dumped into the arms of his Grandpa by his druggy mum. Nicoll plays the role very well, as you feel sorry for his situation yet you still get to see the fun he has with his grandpa, and how he just wants to be loved by a family. I have never heard of him prior to this film, but he was a good selected on Jackass' behalf as the pranks are very fitting to his look and the way he is.
This film is just funny. The pranks they achieve made the entire audience laugh, especially where Irving and Billy have a farting contest, and he shits up the wall in a packed restaurant and just walks out and leaves it (yes, its how you picture it). Having real life reactions from people makes it that so much better, as they believe everything that is happening is real, and seeing how people respond makes you think how you would handle the situation. The people behind Jackass are hilarious, and everything about it is my kind of humour, which makes me love it even more.
So, yes, of course I recommend you go and see this film right away. If you don't know what Jackass is, it doesn't matter as it's a stand alone film. The humour, the real reactions, Knoxville, everything is just hilarious. If you want to laugh, go and see Bad Grandpa.
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