Grandma's Boy

REVIEW
Grandma's Boy isn't going to win any awards anytime soon but nevertheless it is a very amusing movie; that is, if you can suck it up and just enjoy it for what is. And 'what it is' is a silly stoner movie with little in the way of plot but big on laughs, in that I-can't-believe-I'm-seeing-this kind of way. Alex (Allen Covert) is a video game tester who is forced to move into his grandmother and her elderly roommates' house when he loses his bachelor pad; of course he tells all his co-workers that he's moving in with a bunch of hot, horny babes, giving them all the impression that life for him is now one big orgy. But in reality things really couldn't get much worse for poor, bumbling Alex. Living with grandma isn't what it's cracked up to be and with pressure from the job and a new/old love interest making the scene, his life has become more complicated than usual. That's pretty much the extent of the story, but it never really matters what it's about. What does matter is squeezing in as many one-liners, sight gags and whatever other bit of hilarity as possible into an hour and a half. Really, plot is secondary and serves only to set up the next joke. Most of the characters are so over-the-top ridiculous: the pot dealer and his tribesman roommate; Alex's boss J.P. (a social inept geek obsessed with the matrix and whose eccentricities get progressively more bizarre, like speaking in a robot voice or dressing like Neo); his friend and coddled co-worker Jeff who still lives with his parents and sleeps in a race car bed; his grandmother's roommates – a been-around-the-block-and-then-some oldie who got it on with Charlie Chaplin and a mess of a woman who eats pills for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There are a million and one immature gags and jokes, that in any other film would probably crash and burn, but for whatever reason, here they work. When Alex gets caught masturbating by Jeff's mom and accidentally comes on her ("I can't stop, it feels too good" and later, "Dude, you came on my mom") it is beyond hysterical.