I mostly like Jackass and its ilk.
I say mostly because sometimes I just don’t have the energy to watch it. The guys are too good at their work, they produce emotional gut reactions. If you’ve watched Jackass without a physical reaction (nut-tightening, dry heaving, menstruation, or otherwise) you are actually a dead person. What’s it like being a zombie? I bet it’s boring. Although…
That was starting to get dangerous, anyway… I just can’t watch it all the time because it has an effect on me. Bad Grandpa is a slight departure from the normal product in that it has an overall linear plot. The movie is mostly hidden camera crowd reaction gags that most will be familiar with but each advances the plot.
Grandpa (Johannes Knoxville) inherits the responsibility of delivering his 8 year old (I think) grandson to his estranged father who lives across the country. Grandpa doesn’t like kids, people, his give-a-shitter’s broke, and his long time wife has just passed and he’s out for some strange. Hijinks ensue.
There’s some funny shit here. Granpa’s dick gets caught in a soda machine, they enter the kid (male) in a female beauty padgent for cash, and a whole lot more shit. The main surprise is one of the last bits that will actually make you tear up a little. Not kidding, it’s not all that sad but it will catch you off guard. Even with this warning.
Good movie.