Film Review

‘Grandmas’s Boy’: Simple, Stupid, Hilarious!

By:Daniel Watkins (January 14, 2006)

First off, if you don’t like movies that seem to be pointless and have no plot, don’t read on. On the other hand, if you just want to laugh and not worry about the story, this is definitely the movie for you.

The movie is centrally based around a 35-year-old video game tester named Alex (Allen Covert). He gets kicked out of his apartment because the man who he was giving the money to was spending it on certain illegal services that we won’t get into. Anyway, Alex cannot find a place to stay, so while he is testing the latest video game due for release in a few short weeks, he crashes at his grandma’s (Doris Roberts) house. Work life is normally easy, but since the new game is coming out soon, Alex is pushed hard by his annoying nerd boss J.P. (Joel David Moore), who also thinks he is a robot. A beautiful young executive (Linda Cardelinni) comes to the office that Alex works at to oversee the final stages of the game and inevitably likes hanging around all the nerds and has a crush on Alex. All very predictable, but it is delivered in a great comedic fashion.

When I say “great comedic fashion,” I mean that the movie is so stupid it’s funny. Literally nothing happens in the movie besides partying, video game playing, and doing certain illegal substances to the point where it’s laughable. The plot of trying to finish the new video game on time is only in the movie so it can actually pretend to be called a movie.

After all these shortcomings in the very simple and predictable plot, I still laughed through the entire movie. And that’s what you go to the movies for: Entertainment. Beware though, if you don’t like immature comedy or laughing at things that are clearly funny, don’t see this movie. If you just want to turn your brain off for an hour and a half and laugh though, this is a great movie for you, and it should be very entertaining.