Grandma’s Boy is a 2006 stoner comedy written by Allen Covert and Nick Swardson. Friends and common collaborators of Adam Sandler and his production company “Happy Maddison Productions”. Covert and Swardson are also the stars of the movie, along with Linda Cardellini, Joel David Moore, and Covert’s grandmother and her two roomates, played by Shirley Jones, Shirley Knight, and Doris Roberts. Sandler’s old SNL castmates Kevin Nealon and David Spade also have small roles as well.
It says on Rotten Tomatoes, which, for those of you who don’t know, is a very popular movie rating website, that the average rating of Grandma’s Boy is 3.6/10. But I don’t think that’s accurate, because most of the people that I know that have seen the movie not only know it, but think it’s very funny, and in fact, quote it, often. It’s a highly quoteable movie. With a lot of hilariously memorable scenes. Which is ironic considering it’s a stoner movie, and you should be prone to forgetting most of it.
The characters are surprisingly well developed for such an idiotic movie. And for as stupid as everyone is supposed to be, the dialogue is actually far smarter than it should be. The acting gives it a sort of backwards sense of delivery, where, because it isn’t written like a typical comedy, it somehow makes it even funnier. It’s hard to make that make sense. But if you get it, you’ll know what I mean. Or maybe you just have to be high enough. I don’t know…
Either way, I don’t have to be high to enjoy Grandma’s Boy. I think it’s a laugh riot, even if I’m not stoned. Because it is. There’s more than enough comedy to go around. From Alex’s roommate Josh spending all of their rent money on Filipino hookers, to the monkey karate chopping the elephant at the end of the movie. See? There’s a sentence you never thought you’d read, isn’t it?
So, yeah. Go and see Grandma’s Boy. I can guarantee you’ll laugh all through the movie. And if you don’t, you’re watching the wrong kind of movie. Go find something with subtitles where people are crying or something. Because this is a movie about weed and videogames. And as always, keep on watching, with a smile on your face…
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