Grandma's Boy

Grandma's Boy (2006)

  • 18% of critics liked it
    (61 reviews)

  • 85% of users liked it
    (202,709 ratings)

Can the world's oldest adolescent maintain his cool while living with his grandmother? Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video-game fanatic who gave up a career in accounting to take a job testing games for Brainasium, the company behind the wildly popular game "Eternal Death Slayer." While Alex… More

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R, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By
Nick Goossen
Written By
Allen Covert, Nick Swardson
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 6, 2006 Wide
On DVD
May 9, 2006
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly

    [The film] does a very thorough job of reducing every recognizable member of the cast to probable career lows.

  • Ronnie Scheib, Variety

    The Sandler-patented mix of the deliberately offensive and the blatantly sentimental loses something in the maestro's absence.

  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

    Grandma's Boy is an Adam Sandler comedy without Adam Sandler, which is kind of like getting a root canal without the dentist.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement.

  • Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

    Even silly fun needs serious talent behind it.

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  • Jeff "


    Grandma's Boy is one enjoyable stoner comedy. I love this film. Though never really hilarious, the film is fairly humourous and is pretty well done. The plot is simple, but what makes this film work is the comical cast involved. Though not perfect, Grandma's Boy is at times… More

  • Coxxie M


    So this is one of those movies that i know is just beyond dumb but i cant tell my friends that cause you know, whatever your friends are doing is obviously the thing to do, right? i mean i may think Grandma's boy sucks, but what do i know? ive been wrong before. remember Vans?… More

  • Spencer S


    Allen Covert (a frequent collaborator of Adam Sandler's) and Nick Swardson make a dynamic duo like no other in this, one of the funniest films I have ever seen.

  • Albert K


    surprisingly funny

  • KJ P


    I don't usually like stupid comedies like this but this one was irresistable!http://static.flixstercdn.com/static/images/facebook/rating/post.button.gif

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