Synopsis
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother.
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Cast
- Allen CovertAlex
- Linda CardelliniSamantha
- Peter DanteDante
- Shirley KnightBea
- Joel David MooreJ.P.
- Kevin NealonMr. Cheezle
- Doris RobertsGrandma Lilly
- Shirley JonesGrace
- Heidi HawkingMilk Maid
- Shana HiattPamela Mills
Recommendations
- 70
L.A. Weekly
Sandler crony Allen Covert, the star, producer and co-writer of this stunted-adolescence classic, hilariously explores a previously untapped nexus of stoner humor, joystick geekdom, elderly women and a martial arts-taught chimp. - 50
The New York Times
It cheerfully invites the audience to descend to their level, where no joke is too silly or raunchy, and a plot is just a way of passing time between game levels and bong hits. - 40
Film Threat
A touch above the usual adolescent male friendly films of Happy Madison's previous on-screen massacres (see "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" for example”) but it isn't quite as smart or funny as other recent comedies like "40 Year-Old Virgin" or "Wedding Crashers." - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
The film doesn't have much in the way of genuine laughs despite a plethora of attempted gags, but it does have a geniality that makes it hard to entirely dislike. - 40
Variety
Even Sandler diehards may pass on this mostly derivative paean to compulsive computer geekdom and male sexual dysfunction. - 38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
An Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler, it turns out, is not necessarily an improvement. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
Lacking so much as a shred of wit and crammed with more product placements than jokes, this unendurable stoner comedy clearly disproves the movie-formula wisdom that two guys, one Xbox and a 2-foot-long bong add up to something funny. - 25
New York Daily News
There's no drug potent enough to make Grandma's Boy worth 87 minutes of your life.
