Plenty of things want to be funny, but Bad Grandpa bites off more than its dentures can chew this time around.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Sep 4, 2023

Amidst all the chaos and naughtiness, there's an unabashed celebration of the human spirit here that left me simultaneously laughing and crying.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

You can laugh at poop and fart jokes for only so long; sooner or later all the pooping and farting will start to stink.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 23, 2020

With his 8-year-old grandson riding shotgun, Knoxville just keeps on punking the real world with carefully constructed shonky shenanigans. Do not try this at home. Do feel free to laugh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2020

"Bad Grandpa" isn't just about grossing the audience out (which it does a lot). It remains an interesting study on how easy it is to fool people -- even in the day of YouTube and Facebook.

| Apr 9, 2019

Bad Grandpa offers a whole lot of moments that will make you laugh, make you feel bad about laughing and then make you laugh again.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2019

This is quite simply an asinine 90 minutes of fart jokes.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 2, 2018

For comedy fans, "Bad Grandpa" is a no-brainer. In every possible way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 14, 2016

An unfunny 'comedy' full of cheap crudity and punches down at targets who don't deserve it. For some movies there should be hazard pay.

| Mar 2, 2014

It's foul and filthy but only occasionally funny.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 7, 2014

Bad Grandpa's biggest, most eyebrow-rising surprise may very well be the fact that we actually grow to care about him and Billy by the final reel

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 3, 2014

Stuffs male jackassery into a paper-thin piata of a contrived plot, then blindly bashes us over the head, again and again, with a stick marked 'SEE WHAT AN OLD MAN AND A YOUNG BOY CAN GET AWAY WITH!'

| Dec 27, 2013

The wrongs pile up, and there's a clear object of satire. That feels new for the Jackass experience: a target that isn't a crotch. I'd like to see Irv try to strike again with braver gags.

| Dec 10, 2013

...ultimately just another misguided effort from Knoxville and his band of pranksters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2013

Less violent and less mean-spirited than Jackass, Bad Grandpa is a funny little diversion and that's about it, but that's okay.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2013

Lewd, crude, tasteless...It's when Irving dresses Billy up as a girl in a kids beauty pageant that things get crazy. It's one of those moments, folks, where the angels of good taste and decorum desert you and you find yourself laughing like an idiot.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 14, 2013

In this sporadically hilarious off-colour comedy, stupid, misogynistic America is skewered by a paradoxical creation: an actor young and reckless enough to raise hell and a character old enough to know better.

| Nov 14, 2013

You'll cough out some second-hand chuckles reliving the moment Irving Pic-ass-o'ed the wall.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2013

Bad Grandpa is to Jackass what Borat is to Ali G. The gag is far less about Irving and his grandson; it's relishing in how they antagonise and perplex their unwilling support cast. It's juvenile, it's ridiculous but I laughed, a lot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2013

This really is a movie full of gags. And not entirely in a good way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2013