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Movie ID: 826
RT slug: jackass_presents_bad_grandpa
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jackass_presents_bad_grandpa
Release year: 2013
Runtime: 92 mins
Wide release date: 2013-10-25
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2015-09-29
Tomatometer final: 61%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Comedy
Directors: Jeff Tremaine
Writers: Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze
Producers: Derek Freda, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-18 18:55:09
Updated: 2026-06-18 18:55:09
Irascible Irving Zisman and his young and impressionable grandson, Billy, set out on a road trip across America. Hidden cameras capture their insane and shocking encounters with a diverse set of unsuspecting citizens, including male strippers, disgruntled contestants (and their mothers) from a children's beauty pageant, mourners at a funeral home, patrons at a biker bar and more. Based on the "Jackass" TV series.
Never quite as funny as it wants to be, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa still offers viewers the timeless pleasures of seeing an old man get his privates stuck in a vending machine.
Canonical reviews: 109
Canonical fresh: 67
Canonical rotten: 42
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 61%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-18 14:03:52
Snapshot Tomatometer: 61%
Snapshot review count: 109
Snapshot fresh count: 67
Snapshot rotten count: 42
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1479 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
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| Paramount Pictures | distributor |
| Dickhouse Productions | production |
| MTV Films | production |
| Paramount | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
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| 1 | Johnny Knoxville | Irving Zisman |
| 2 | Jackson Nicoll | Billy |
| 3 | Gregorio | Chuck |
| 4 | Georgina Cates | Kimmie |
| 5 | Kamber Hejlik | Doctor |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181005 | Don Shanahan | Every Movie Has a Lesson | Fresh | 0/5 | 2023-09-04T15:54:48Z | 2023-09-04 15:54:48 | Plenty of things want to be funny, but Bad Grandpa bites off more than its dentures can chew this time around. |
| 181006 | Richard Propes | TheIndependentCritic.com | Fresh | 3.5/4.0 | 2020-09-12T22:41:46Z | 2020-09-12 22:41:46 | Amidst all the chaos and naughtiness, there's an unabashed celebration of the human spirit here that left me simultaneously laughing and crying. |
| 181007 | Allen Almachar | The MacGuffin | Rotten | C+ | 2020-07-23T20:51:12Z | 2020-07-23 20:51:12 | You can laugh at poop and fart jokes for only so long; sooner or later all the pooping and farting will start to stink. |
| 181008 | Leigh Paatsch | Herald Sun (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-04-20T22:20:47Z | 2020-04-20 22:20:47 | With his 8-year-old grandson riding shotgun, Knoxville just keeps on punking the real world with carefully constructed shonky shenanigans. Do not try this at home. Do feel free to laugh. |
| 181009 | Micheal Compton | Bowling Green Daily News | Fresh | — | 2019-04-09T23:21:41Z | 2019-04-09 23:21:41 | "Bad Grandpa" isn't just about grossing the audience out (which it does a lot). It remains an interesting study on how easy it is to fool people -- even in the day of YouTube and Facebook. |
| 181010 | Allen Adams | The Maine Edge | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2019-02-20T22:41:51Z | 2019-02-20 22:41:51 | Bad Grandpa offers a whole lot of moments that will make you laugh, make you feel bad about laughing and then make you laugh again. |
| 181011 | Debbie Baldwin | Ladue News | Fresh | 7/10 | 2018-11-02T00:27:17Z | 2018-11-02 00:27:17 | This is quite simply an asinine 90 minutes of fart jokes. |
| 181012 | J. Olson | Cinemixtape | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2016-04-14T19:41:36Z | 2016-04-14 19:41:36 | For comedy fans, "Bad Grandpa" is a no-brainer. In every possible way. |
| 181013 | MaryAnn Johanson | Flick Filosopher | Rotten | — | 2014-03-02T14:08:40Z | 2014-03-02 14:08:40 | An unfunny 'comedy' full of cheap crudity and punches down at targets who don't deserve it. For some movies there should be hazard pay. |
| 181014 | Unknown Critic | Daily Record (UK) | Rotten | 3/5 | 2014-02-07T15:40:14Z | 2014-02-07 15:40:14 | It's foul and filthy but only occasionally funny. |
| 181015 | James Kendrick | Q Network Film Desk | Fresh | 3/4 | 2014-02-03T10:50:55Z | 2014-02-03 10:50:55 | Bad Grandpa's biggest, most eyebrow-rising surprise may very well be the fact that we actually grow to care about him and Billy by the final reel |
| 181016 | Brian Gibson | Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta) | Rotten | — | 2013-12-27T14:48:27Z | 2013-12-27 14:48:27 | Stuffs male jackassery into a paper-thin piata of a contrived plot, then blindly bashes us over the head, again and again, with a stick marked 'SEE WHAT AN OLD MAN AND A YOUNG BOY CAN GET AWAY WITH!' |
| 181017 | Wesley Morris | Grantland | Fresh | — | 2013-12-10T14:32:39Z | 2013-12-10 14:32:39 | The wrongs pile up, and there's a clear object of satire. That feels new for the Jackass experience: a target that isn't a crotch. I'd like to see Irv try to strike again with braver gags. |
| 181018 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-11-22T11:51:14Z | 2013-11-22 11:51:14 | ...ultimately just another misguided effort from Knoxville and his band of pranksters. |
| 181019 | Tim Martain | The Mercury (Australia) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-11-16T02:56:41Z | 2013-11-16 02:56:41 | Less violent and less mean-spirited than Jackass, Bad Grandpa is a funny little diversion and that's about it, but that's okay. |
| 181020 | Jim Schembri | 3AW | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-11-14T20:47:34Z | 2013-11-14 20:47:34 | Lewd, crude, tasteless...It's when Irving dresses Billy up as a girl in a kids beauty pageant that things get crazy. It's one of those moments, folks, where the angels of good taste and decorum desert you and you find yourself laughing like an idiot. |
| 181021 | Luke Buckmaster | The Daily Review/Crikey | Fresh | — | 2013-11-14T18:46:10Z | 2013-11-14 18:46:10 | In this sporadically hilarious off-colour comedy, stupid, misogynistic America is skewered by a paradoxical creation: an actor young and reckless enough to raise hell and a character old enough to know better. |
| 181022 | Liam Maguren | Flicks (AU, NZ, UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-11-14T14:54:54Z | 2013-11-14 14:54:54 | You'll cough out some second-hand chuckles reliving the moment Irving Pic-ass-o'ed the wall. |
| 181023 | Blake Howard | 2UE That Movie Show | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-11-14T11:55:39Z | 2013-11-14 11:55:39 | Bad Grandpa is to Jackass what Borat is to Ali G. The gag is far less about Irving and his grandson; it's relishing in how they antagonise and perplex their unwilling support cast. It's juvenile, it's ridiculous but I laughed, a lot. |
| 181024 | Andy Lea | Daily Star (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-11-14T07:46:36Z | 2013-11-14 07:46:36 | This really is a movie full of gags. And not entirely in a good way. |
| 181025 | Linda Cook | Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2013-11-13T22:55:36Z | 2013-11-13 22:55:36 | 'Bad Grandpa' made me laugh more than it didn't, but I still missed the antics by the rest of the 'Jackass' gang in this R-rated road trip. |
| 181026 | Adam Ross | The Aristocrat | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-11-13T20:51:04Z | 2013-11-13 20:51:04 | I can't imagine anyone going into this film expecting Mrs. Doubtfire... |
| 181027 | Matt Neal | The Standard | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-11-13T20:39:11Z | 2013-11-13 20:39:11 | There is something really unsettling and weird about this, and I'm not talking about when the kid does a hilariously wrong striptease to Warrant's Cherry Pie at a beauty pageant. |
| 181028 | Graham Young | Birmingham Mail | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-11-07T13:22:22Z | 2013-11-07 13:22:22 | As hit and miss as it can be cruel, but with an "odd couple" eight decades apart at its heart it's likely to hit a few sweet spots for eager consumers of Borat-influenced comedy. |
| 181029 | J. R. Jones | Chicago Reader | Rotten | — | 2013-11-07T11:01:53Z | 2013-11-07 11:01:53 | Onlookers occasionally glance into the camera, a pretty good sign that people are hip to these prankster movies now and just play along. |
| 181030 | Ed Whitfield | The Ooh Tray | Rotten | — | 2013-11-03T10:24:17Z | 2013-11-03 10:24:17 | In 92 minutes I laughed twice. Once at the sight of Knoxville's geriatric being folded on a faulty bed and once on learning that Spike Jonze was part of the brain trust responsible for the alleged screenplay. |
| 181031 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-11-03T07:53:41Z | 2013-11-03 07:53:41 | After a time, the characters start to bond with one another and form a genuinely likeable team. |
| 181032 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 2/10 | 2013-11-01T08:41:39Z | 2013-11-01 08:41:39 | To put an eight year old child in the middle of Jackass type gross antics is not entertaining. |
| 181033 | Bob Grimm | Tucson Weekly | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-31T20:07:30Z | 2013-10-31 20:07:30 | I'm totally okay with Knoxville finding a way to be crazy without allowing large animals to run him over. |
| 181034 | Tim Brayton | Antagony & Ecstasy | Rotten | 3/10 | 2013-10-30T23:51:34Z | 2013-10-30 23:51:34 | The only reason I won't say that the film isn't as shocking as it thinks itself to be, is because it's not really very clear that it even thinks that it's shocking. |
| 181035 | Robert Kojder | What Culture | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-30T20:53:25Z | 2013-10-30 20:53:25 | The results are the most inspired and refreshing series of gags in years from the group and a step in a direction ripe with further potential. |
| 181036 | Rick Kisonak | Seven Days (VT) | Rotten | — | 2013-10-30T08:29:14Z | 2013-10-30 08:29:14 | As long, strange trips go, Bad Grandpa's cross country odyssey feels more long than strange. |
| 181037 | Neil Pond | American Profile | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-29T07:15:19Z | 2013-10-29 07:15:19 | Be warned: Knoxville has a thing for body parts, and body functions, that you'll never, ever, see on America's Funniest Home Videos. |
| 181038 | Marshall Fine | Hollywood & Fine | Fresh | — | 2013-10-29T05:26:27Z | 2013-10-29 05:26:27 | I didn't laugh as often as I did at the earlier Jackass films, but it did make me laugh just as hard. |
| 181039 | David Keyes | Cinemaphile.org | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-10-28T21:04:22Z | 2013-10-28 21:04:22 | I laughed, cackled, and often felt completely embarrassed by doing so. |
| 181040 | Mark Kermode | Observer (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2013-10-28T08:18:54Z | 2013-10-28 08:18:54 | Secondhand gags, third-rate execution, fourth-rate results. |
| 181041 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Rotten | 4/10 | 2013-10-27T06:30:32Z | 2013-10-27 06:30:32 | Another gleeful 'Jackass' gross-out... |
| 181042 | Griffin Vacheron | We Got This Covered | Fresh | 6/10 | 2013-10-26T15:16:13Z | 2013-10-26 15:16:13 | If your expectations are in the right place, then this is a film that is endlessly amusing and often hilarious, but if you have a firm distaste for the raunchy or ridiculous, you may want to steer clear. |
| 181043 | Kevin Carr | Fat Guys at the Movies | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-10-25T16:09:12Z | 2013-10-25 16:09:12 | There's a lot of things in there that we really shouldn't laugh at, but we can't help it. |
| 181044 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-10-25T15:30:29Z | 2013-10-25 15:30:29 | Thank goodness comedy still has the power to make us confront the stuff decorum tells us to avoid. |
| 181045 | Ben Kendrick | Screen Rant | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-25T15:01:08Z | 2013-10-25 15:01:08 | The story is thin but Bad Grandpa successfully freshens the Jackass format and will, without question, keep fans of the series laughing (and cringing) the entire time. |
| 181046 | Kristian Harloff | Schmoes Know | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-10-25T14:59:58Z | 2013-10-25 14:59:58 | The pranks themselves, the incredibly deft execution and improvisation (by both Knoxville and his impressive child co-star), and most of all the reactions from the prankees make for some of the best laughs I've had in or out of a theater this year. |
| 181047 | Corey Hall | Metro Times (Detroit, MI) | Rotten | D | 2013-10-25T12:14:17Z | 2013-10-25 12:14:17 | Knoxville continues to crank out lowest-common-denominator schlock that would be deeply embarrassing on the rsum of a man half his age. |
| 181048 | Luke Y. Thompson | The Robot's Voice | Rotten | — | 2013-10-25T10:50:53Z | 2013-10-25 10:50:53 | An entirely conventional filmed comedy with this pair could have worked, and I suspect a gonzo, Jackass-style montage would have been decent as well. Putting the two together results in a final product that's only half as good. |
| 181049 | David Berry | National Post | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2013-10-25T10:47:43Z | 2013-10-25 10:47:43 | There's a reason candid camera stuff has been with us since we figured out how to hide cameras, and Knoxville's grinning rambunctiousness is enough to keep it far away from Just for Laughs Gags territory. |
| 181050 | Rick Bentley | Fresno Bee | Rotten | D- | 2013-10-25T10:45:02Z | 2013-10-25 10:45:02 | What may surprise you is that this film fails not because of the low-brow humor. It's the abysmal filmmaking. |
| 181051 | Jim Slotek | Jam! Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-10-25T10:26:38Z | 2013-10-25 10:26:38 | A sometimes-funny-but-mostly-not mash-up of Borat, Weekend At Bernie's (a corpse along for the ride) and Bad Santa (an offensive old guy along with a kid). |
| 181052 | Marjorie Baumgarten | Austin Chronicle | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2013-10-25T10:05:01Z | 2013-10-25 10:05:01 | Some of the jokes are flat-out hilarious, but most are overworked or tepid. |
| 181053 | Donald Clarke | Irish Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-10-25T08:45:16Z | 2013-10-25 08:45:16 | The trick to such humour involves persuading the audience to squirm and laugh at the same time. Grandpa triggers merely the squirming, and you can get that from a mild case of haemorrhoids. |
| 181054 | Tim Robey | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-25T08:38:23Z | 2013-10-25 08:38:23 | Bad Grandpa has no goals whatsoever beyond making you snort with base, moronic glee, but when it scores, it scores. |
| 181055 | James Verniere | Boston Herald | Rotten | D | 2013-10-25T08:37:28Z | 2013-10-25 08:37:28 | My eyes are still burning. |
| 181056 | Christopher Campbell | Film School Rejects | Fresh | C+ | 2013-10-25T08:30:08Z | 2013-10-25 08:30:08 | Worth seeing just for Nicoll, whose deadpan delivery is priceless. |
| 181057 | Charlotte O'Sullivan | London Evening Standard | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-25T08:26:32Z | 2013-10-25 08:26:32 | When Knoxville's bad, he's very very bad. But when he's good, he's wicked. |
| 181058 | Teddy Durgin | Screen It! | Fresh | — | 2013-10-25T08:02:06Z | 2013-10-25 08:02:06 | The film's humor is very hit or miss. There aren't many small laughs. But the big laughs are VERY big! (Full Content Review for Parents also available) |
| 181059 | Dave McGinn | Globe and Mail | Rotten | 1/4 | 2013-10-25T07:57:46Z | 2013-10-25 07:57:46 | It's been 11 years since Jackass: The Movie, and three since Jackass 3D, although it feels a lot longer than that. |
| 181060 | Linda Barnard | Toronto Star | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2013-10-25T07:56:08Z | 2013-10-25 07:56:08 | Like the lime-green bingo dabber contents Irving drinks down to the horror of his seatmates, it's an acquired taste. |
| 181061 | Peter Travers | Rolling Stone | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2013-10-25T07:54:07Z | 2013-10-25 07:54:07 | It's not really a movie. It's Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass crew faking out real people into believing he's 86-year-old Irving Zisman, an old fart bag traveling cross-country. |
| 181062 | Dan Kois | Slate | Fresh | — | 2013-10-25T07:34:05Z | 2013-10-25 07:34:05 | What impressed me again and again is how unflappably polite Americans can be. |
| 181063 | Rob Vaux | Mania.com | Fresh | B | 2013-10-25T07:34:03Z | 2013-10-25 07:34:03 | Those who appreciate Knoxville's particular brand of fun are apt to find a very dirty good time waiting for them here. |
| 181064 | Willie Waffle | WaffleMovies.com | Rotten | 1/4 | 2013-10-25T07:31:16Z | 2013-10-25 07:31:16 | It's all too good to be true, so the joke is not on the people in the movie. It's on the people who bought the tickets. |
| 181065 | Bilge Ebiri | New York Magazine/Vulture | Fresh | — | 2013-10-25T07:27:47Z | 2013-10-25 07:27:47 | For all its flaws, it might just be the most heartwarming movie of the year. |
| 181066 | Odie Henderson | RogerEbert.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-10-25T07:06:06Z | 2013-10-25 07:06:06 | Knoxville immerses himself in the role, radiating affection and concern for his charge. He's completely convincing, even during the most bizarre moments in "Bad Grandpa." |
| 181067 | Sam Adams | Time Out | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-10-25T07:04:45Z | 2013-10-25 07:04:45 | Apart from a handful of physical stunts and the penultimate biker-bar setup, Knoxville never puts himself at risk, and the imbalance of power curdles the imperative to laugh at the rubes. |
| 181068 | Owen Gleiberman | Entertainment Weekly | Fresh | B- | 2013-10-25T07:02:28Z | 2013-10-25 07:02:28 | You'll occasionally laugh out loud, but the heart of the movie is safe enough to chuckle at. |
| 181069 | Jolene Mendez | Entertainment Spectrum | Fresh | 4/5 | 2013-10-25T06:34:18Z | 2013-10-25 06:34:18 | I have no complaints about "Bad Grandpa" except that the journey ended too soon. |
| 181070 | Mark Dujsik | Mark Reviews Movies | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2013-10-25T06:08:36Z | 2013-10-25 06:08:36 | What's the joke here? |
| 181071 | Dustin Putman | TheFilmFile.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2013-10-24T21:47:18Z | 2013-10-24 21:47:18 | Total cinematic junk food, but that doesn't mean it isn't sinfully tasty while it lasts. |
| 181072 | Daniel M. Kimmel | North Shore Movies | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2013-10-24T20:40:20Z | 2013-10-24 20:40:20 | Apparently there's always an audience for a joke involving explosive flatulence. |
| 181073 | R. Kurt Osenlund | Slant Magazine | Rotten | — | 2013-10-24T17:36:40Z | 2013-10-24 17:36:40 | .5/4 A choppy, feature-length progression of crude, predictable gags, the film plays like a variety show, and yet its main attraction is barely funny enough to warrant his own brief sketch. |
| 181074 | Betsy Sharkey | Los Angeles Times | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-10-24T16:32:28Z | 2013-10-24 16:32:28 | The film has a story complete with a beginning, middle and end. It has some acting and emotion. And most shocking of all - it has empathy. |
| 181075 | Neil Genzlinger | New York Times | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-10-24T16:17:26Z | 2013-10-24 16:17:26 | It's hard to score big laughs with hidden-camera material these days because there has been so much of it since the "Jackass" TV show, but Mr. Knoxville and his young sidekick still land a few jaw-droppers. |
| 181076 | Jason Buchanan | TV Guide | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-10-24T15:29:38Z | 2013-10-24 15:29:38 | The real butt of the joke isn't the good-natured folks who signed release forms to appear in the film -- it's you for expecting something a bit more from the contemporary torchbearers of physical comedy. |
| 181077 | Steve Rose | Guardian | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-24T15:15:50Z | 2013-10-24 15:15:50 | Some of the pranks are awfully funny, putting lewdness and prosthetic body parts in places they're really not supposed to go ... |
| 181078 | Kyle Smith | New York Post | Rotten | 1/4 | 2013-10-24T15:14:02Z | 2013-10-24 15:14:02 | This whole movie is pretty much a mental colon blow. |
| 181079 | Jay Stone | Canada.com | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-10-24T15:13:58Z | 2013-10-24 15:13:58 | The fun is supposed to come in watching people's reactions, but punking innocent bystanders is both too easy and mean-spirited. |
| 181080 | Scott Bowles | USA Today | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-10-24T15:13:03Z | 2013-10-24 15:13:03 | Not only stands as the best installment (by bounds) of Johnny Knoxville's hidden-camera franchise; it's one of the sharpest comedies of the year. |
| 181081 | Laura Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Fresh | B- | 2013-10-24T14:03:44Z | 2013-10-24 14:03:44 | Knoxville's an old hand at this stuff, but his young costar is an amazing natural, fearless and convincing in his staged exploits. |
| 181082 | Peter Keough | Boston Globe | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-10-24T13:39:09Z | 2013-10-24 13:39:09 | Though at times it grows predictable and more inane than outrageous, "Bad Grandpa" gets more than its share of cheap laughs. |
| 181083 | Chris Hewitt | St. Paul Pioneer Press | Fresh | 3/4 | 2013-10-24T13:00:28Z | 2013-10-24 13:00:28 | It's quite different from "Borat," which was funnier but which was also more mean-spirited. |
| 181084 | Peter Hartlaub | San Francisco Chronicle | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-10-24T12:58:53Z | 2013-10-24 12:58:53 | Some of the pranks are masterfully executed; the beauty pageant and a disastrous funeral near the beginning stand out. But on the whole, "Bad Grandpa" can't locate a consistent groove. |
| 181085 | Michael O'Sullivan | Washington Post | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-10-24T12:57:41Z | 2013-10-24 12:57:41 | Although we're allowed the perverse pleasure of watching Irving commit one inappropriate act after another, our sense of horror/delight dissipates after each one. |
| 181086 | JimmyO | JoBlo's Movie Network | Fresh | 8/10 | 2013-10-24T12:33:16Z | 2013-10-24 12:33:16 | Knoxville is of course terrific as Zisman, but it is young Jackson Nicoll's fearless performance that really steals the show. |
| 181087 | Elizabeth Weitzman | New York Daily News | Rotten | — | 2013-10-24T11:46:36Z | 2013-10-24 11:46:36 | Knoxville and the perfectly cast Nicoll have great chemistry throughout. But longtime "Jackass" director Jeff Tremaine consistently cuts away too quickly, undermining each joke in order to rush on to the next. |
| 181088 | Matt Singer | The Dissolve | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2013-10-24T11:33:33Z | 2013-10-24 11:33:33 | Bad Grandpa is less a feature than a filmed investigation into the effect of dick jokes on the human psyche, like a Milgram experiment where the shocks are real, and Milgram himself is receiving them. |
| 181089 | Graham Killeen | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Rotten | 2/4 | 2013-10-24T11:30:57Z | 2013-10-24 11:30:57 | Prop gags that "Saturday Night Live" might stretch to fill an entire sketch fizzle almost immediately, while director Jeff Tremaine's low-def hidden-camera footage often looks like it was shot on Skype. |
| 181090 | Nigel Andrews | Financial Times | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-10-24T11:27:15Z | 2013-10-24 11:27:15 | Too much of a slight and, at times, self-consciously naughty-minded thing. |
| 181091 | Amy Nicholson | L.A. Weekly | Rotten | C | 2013-10-24T11:21:32Z | 2013-10-24 11:21:32 | The joke is really on Knoxville, who, despite flinging himself through a glass wall and rigging up a fake poo-sprayer in his pants, gets fewer laughs than his boy sidekick |
| 181092 | Ryan Gilbey | New Statesman | Fresh | — | 2013-10-24T09:54:01Z | 2013-10-24 09:54:01 | The only motivation is to grab laughs on the hoof, wherever they might be found. Sometimes that's enough. |
| 181093 | Brian Orndorf | Blu-ray.com | Fresh | B+ | 2013-10-24T09:02:19Z | 2013-10-24 09:02:19 | Certainly crude, but it's also riotously funny at times, with a bizarre calmness about it that's immensely appealing, toning down the cruelty to play some old-fashioned pranks on a semi-suspecting public. |
| 181094 | Nick Schager | Film Journal International | Fresh | — | 2013-10-24T08:46:48Z | 2013-10-24 08:46:48 | While Bad Grandpa loses steam whenever it concentrates on the banter between its stars, and even though its practical jokes aren't quite on par with the finest from the Jackass films, there's still choice nonsense on display throughout. |
| 181095 | Rich Cline | Contactmusic.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-24T08:38:24Z | 2013-10-24 08:38:24 | The Jackass crew takes an oddly gentle approach here, abandoning their more riotous stunt-based movies for a series of undercover pranks, like Borat or Bruno without the social commentary. |
| 181096 | Katherine McLaughlin | ViewLondon | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-24T06:57:30Z | 2013-10-24 06:57:30 | Johnny Knoxville revives his old man character, Irving Zisman, for another crude and audacious comedy that's actually quite funny. |
| 181097 | David Jenkins | Little White Lies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2013-10-24T06:50:57Z | 2013-10-24 06:50:57 | An amusing, Jackass-branded fairy tale with Johnny Knoxville pranking middle America in the guise of a pervy oldster. |
| 181098 | James Mottram | Total Film | Rotten | 2/5 | 2013-10-24T06:04:00Z | 2013-10-24 06:04:00 | Most of the gags fall flatter than a Knoxville belly-flop. |
| 181099 | Matt Pais | RedEye | Rotten | 1/4 | 2013-10-24T05:17:31Z | 2013-10-24 05:17:31 | If it's wrong to feel for people whose wedding day becomes the victim of a pointless stunt, I don't want to be right. |
| 181100 | Kyle Ryan | AV Club | Fresh | B- | 2013-10-24T04:57:50Z | 2013-10-24 04:57:50 | Bad Grandpa mostly succeeds in its very modest goal. It's Borat without the satirical edge, with Knoxville and longtime Jackass director Jeff Tremaine taking the most outrageous parts of that film and escalating them dramatically. |
| 181101 | Mark Adams | Screen International | Fresh | — | 2013-10-24T04:54:59Z | 2013-10-24 04:54:59 | Knoxville's make-up is actually very good, and he is pretty convincing as a sex-starved old curmudgeon, but best of all is young Jackson Nicoll who is a comedy natural and helps balance out the films tendency to go over-the-top. |
| 181102 | Fred Topel | CraveOnline | Fresh | 7/10 | 2013-10-23T18:15:07Z | 2013-10-23 18:15:07 | Bad Grandpa may not be quite as strong as the perfection that was Jackass Number Two or the outrageousness of Jackass 3D but it is an evolution far beyond the first movie or TV series. |
| 181103 | Drew McWeeny | HitFix | Fresh | B+ | 2013-10-23T18:14:12Z | 2013-10-23 18:14:12 | This is very funny, and a nice next step for cinema's rowdiest rodeo clowns. |
| 181104 | John DeFore | The Hollywood Reporter | Fresh | — | 2013-10-23T17:38:11Z | 2013-10-23 17:38:11 | [The plot] focuses the general air of collegial numbskullery into a buddy-pic bond between Knoxville and the very well-cast Jackson Nicoll. |
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