Dir. Nicholaus Goossen
Writ. Barry Wernick, Allen Covert, Nick Swardson
Act. Allen Covert, Linda Cardellini, Doris Roberts

I am beginning to think that Adam Sandler has way too much money. He keeps producing crap movies that have all of his buddies in them. The most obvious example of this would be last summer's disgustingly sh*tty Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. Sandler again offers yet another bad movie to help kill the brain cells of young people everywhere. Grandma's Boy is not Deuce Bigalow, but it isn't a good movie.

A 35 year old video game tester Alex, played by Allen Covert (pick your Adam Sandler movie) loses his home and is forced to move in with his Grandmother, played by Doris Roberts (TV's Everybody Loves Raymond.) Alex must cope with trying to live with his Grandmother and her roommates and must fight for, sort of, the new women in the office Samantha, played by Linda Cardellini (Brokeback Mountain,) with the child genius video game creator J.P., played by Joel Moore (Dodgeball.)

The most noticeable component of this movie is that every male actor that has ever had a cameo or a bit part in an Adam Sandler film is in this movie. Which means that this is a buddy movie, which also means it is not very good. Rob Schneider, David Spade, Kevin Nealon, are the big names among the cast of thousands that owe their career to Sandler. I don't see the point of making more than one or two of these because I am going to guess that eventually Sandler is going to lose money and not be happy about it.

This main problem is that there is no real story to the movie. It is more of a Discovery Channel special on the lives of video game testers. Which sounds interesting but that sound quickly dissipates when nothing else develops. The writes of the script, Barry Wernick, Allen Covert, and Nick Swardson, know how to write a scene that needs drugs, laughs, and tits, but not conflict. They wait until the last 10 minutes of the movie to introduce some conflict, the young game designer stealing Alex's game idea and calling it his own, and because its at the absolute end of the movie, the solution is pure bullsh*t. I am also not going to believe that a hot woman such as Cardellini is going to be remotely interested in video games of any kind. Sorry, but its not happening. I also don't understand why smoking pot is so f*cking hilarious. I need to find a pot head I guess to answer that question.

I did like a few things in the movie. I thought the best acting job was done by Joel David Moore as J.P. Using a computer voice as his conscience was quite funny and very good. He was annoying geek. I don't know if The Matrix look was his choice or the director's or even the writers, but that was also a great idea.

The three old ladies playing the grandmother as well as the two roommates were pretty good. The humor that was written for them was fairly unoriginal but it was fully to see Mrs. Partridge, Shirley Jones, making out with a kid young enough to be her grandson. Not original, but fairly amusing.

Basically I am telling you that this is not a good movie. But considering what has been released by Happy Madison productions and Adam Sandler, this one is at least watchable. You do get to see one set of hooters so I guess that can't be too bad.

Brian - the Naked Gun