A boy Jackson Nicoll is traveling cross-country with his widower grandfather Johnny Knoxville after his mother Georgina Cates goes to jail and he experiences a variety of crude practical jokes perpetrated by his octogenarian mentor; they involve funeral homes, biker bars, male strip clubs and children's beauty pageants. Also with Spike Jonez. Directed by Jeff Tremaine. Some English subtitles appear for unclear conversations.

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Movie review: Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (with video)
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The testicles droop to his knees. The women in the strip club are alternately appalled and tickled. And guess what. Wearing persuasive makeup, Irving is taking his eight-year-old grandson Billy an appealing child actor named Jackson Nicoll to live with his reprobate father. Along the way they will grow closer, outrage several innocent bystanders, and, in one particularly telling stunt, pretend to poop on the wall of a restaurant, thus flabbergasting their fellow diners. Bad Grandpa comes late to the game of hidden-camera humour, of which Sacha Baron Cohen is the modern pioneer, but it is unique in its combination of outrage and sentiment, which turns out to be a particularly repellent combination. Knoxville and his fellow writers Spike Jonze and Jeff Tremaine who also directed want to provide tears of emotion between the tears of laughter. I found it tiresome, although at a recent premiere, I was surrounded by moviegoers in danger of choking to death on their mirth. There is, in all of this, one moment of inspiration: a junior miss beauty pageant peopled by sexualized little girls — real ones, apparently, and hypnotically fascinating in their crude artificiality — that is disrupted by Irving and Billy. Wait until you see those testicles.
It features a grandfather corrupting his grandson with alcohol, vulgarity, promiscuity, theft, and dishonesty. The actors perform disgusting scenes in front of unsuspecting non-actors. The mother asks her father to take her son to his father. This setup enables the grandfather to appear better than the father, even though his behavior is literally criminal. Featuring a grandfather corrupting his young grandson with alcohol, vulgarity, promiscuity, theft, and dishonesty, it makes a very disturbing statement on how low a major American movie studio is willing to go to appeal to fans of depraved humor. The rest of the movie contains full male nudity and sick routines involving fake male sex organs and a grandfather teaching his grandson to steal, pick up women, and get drunk. The grandson crossdresses, enters a beauty pageant, and then performs a stripper dance routine to shock the parents of the girls in the pageant. Sadly, millions of dollars have been spent and are being spent trying to get people to come see this movie.