Perry Kate
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Linbeymusol
Wonderful character development!
Konterr
Brilliant and touching
Yazmin
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
SnoopyStyle
Alex (Allen Covert) is a middle-aged bachelor video game tester living with his roommate Josh. They're thrown out after Josh waste their rent money on hookers. Alex tries to live with his marijuana dealer Dante but Dante is getting a lion. His co-worker Jeff still lives with his parents and Alex has an unfortunate incident with his mom. Alex is forced to stay with his grandma (Doris Roberts) and her two friends Grace (Shirley Jones) and Bea (Shirley Knight). Samantha (Linda Cardellini) is the new executive brought in to launch the latest game.Allen Covert is not a funny performer. Even if you're inclined towards slacker weed humor, Allen doesn't have the charisma to be the lead. The humor is OK for what it is. It has some funny moments but the laughs are limited (unless you're baked).
Python Hyena
Grandma's Boy (2006): Dir: Nicholaus Goossen / Cast: Allen Covert, Linda Cardellini, Peter Dante, Doris Roberts, Joel Moore: Disappointing comedy about the seemingly innocent as video game tester Allen Covert is forced to move in with his grandmother and her two elderly roommates. Simple plot dissolves into bathroom humour including footage of an elderly woman having sex with a young male. Directed by Nicholaus Goossen with characters who are all morons. The guy who dresses like a character from The Matrix is a complete idiot. Covert is unable to elevate this comic travesty above sewer level and for his first starring role, this is not very promising. Linda Cardellini as a new employee overseeing the deadline release of games is a complete fake. Never once does she convincingly sell the performance. She is more or less a romantic prop with no regards to a decent relationship. Peter Dante plays a friend of Covert's who exports exotic animals to protect his drug stash. In his own movie that might have worked to great comic appeal but here it is just a sideshow. Doris Roberts plays grandma who will eventually turn out to be hip and cool playing video games. Joel Moore plays the most idiotic antagonist dreamt up in a screenplay in a while. Technically well made comedy but with too much stupidity for an hour plus time period for anyone (including grandma) to have to sit through. Score: 3 / 10
Caroline Haglund
I thought the movie was okay, I probably would have given it an 6 if it wasn't for that it's pretty sexist and degrading towards women. Don't know how many times they called the girls for whores ... It may sound pretentious but it might makesome who see the movie think it's okay to talk about women that way. Nowmost were virgins and did not socialize with so many women, which perhaps explains why they objectifies women all the time. There was even some gay joke I don't think was okay and it was maybe a little too pro drugs. Although the story was quite predictable, it was perhaps a little disappointing. For me it was definitely the old ladies who made the movie good.
Thomas Aitken
Absolute rubbish. I'm really not sure how it has managed to garner such a high rating on IMDb (maybe pot smokers are getting discounts from their dealers if they log on to IMDb and give this movie a high rating?) Basically this is a film about stoners, for stoners that was written by stoners.It's just a series of jokes about pot and sex all thrown together in one 90 minute montage, and it's not even technically proficient.There are lots of scenes that do absolutely nothing to advance the plot. There is ZERO character arc for the lead protagonist. There is almost no plot development (which makes for a completely flat and boring film) apart from the initial set up, and then a brief flurry at the very end which is meant to inject drama into the story. However this final attempt to salvage the plot from being a complete flat-line is so poorly executed, credulous and quickly resolved that it simply may as well not even be there. Even the way this film has been shot and edited together is confusing (at one point, because of the way the actor has been directed and the scene has been shot, the impression is given that the female lead may have something to hide - but no, there is no secret, just poor direction, shooting and editing.) Even the supposed love story in this film is nonsensical - the character of the female lead is simply not developed in any substantial way, and so we don't care about her because we just don't know her. She is literally there to play a formulaic part so that the male lead ends up with a girl at the end.It's just a really bad movie that has been poorly crafted, and which introduces several different themes but never really develops any one of them properly into a cohesive storyline or character arc - it literally starts us off a journey, and then gets lost in pothead woods.(This is probably the harshest review I've ever written on IMDb yet, by the way).