I can't lie, Allen Covert is a funny ass dude!

While this movie flopped in the box office, I still enjoyed it. This will be a really straight to the point review, because I don't know why the hell I'm reviewing this. Then again who cares, it's a celebration BITCHES! While January is the cue for studios to dump their bad movies after the holiday features it was actually a good week, without the exception for Uwe Boll's "BloodRayne". "Grandma's Boy" is probably going under the radar as another pointless R rated comedy. Their is something original in this even the characters are monotonous but very entertaining. I respect Allen Covert and thought that he was overshadowed in a lot of Adam Sandler vehicles and thought that he could manage a movie, this actually proves it. The same for Peter Dante and not an Sandler alumni, Nick Swardson, I love his stand up comedy. Another stoner comedy with fresh one-liners, quirky characters and just basically a movie to kill time and hang out with all you home boys. A rare hang-out movie, that has been missed for a long time. Let's face it the holiday was not favorable to "hang-out" movies.
Their is a story, it's about a 35 year old gamer that is on his last tab to find a place to stay, so he stays at his grandma's place. He works as a videogame tester with his fellow nerdy peers that battle each other. The other master that is always being challenged is played by the hilarious Nick Swardson. I'm not a big video-game nut, let alone own a console and is really disconnected with video gamers at the age of 19. I'll play for a little while, but sometimes I find that its a waste of time and actually get bored. This movie actually got me into it, not into the games that aren't actually talk of the town in the movies, but the characters. As two-dimensional they may seem they felt like people I could hang out with...For real. Of course special(actually not special) cameos by Adam Sandler alumni like Rob Schneider(He's in there for a little bit) and David Spade(I still got love for him). It felt like all the comedic sidekicks in Adam Sandler films got there own movie. It was like the sheer guilty pleasure of an Adam Sandler without Adam Sandler. I think that Allen Covert can really hold a movie same with peter Dante.
The sort steers away from comedic cliches and is just a big set up for kind of original stoner humor. Their is romance between Allen Covert and the character played by Linda Cardinelli, but it doesn't tend to go to point of being predictable, where you watch and say "Oh, this is the part they hook up because of his dead brother" or something. The actor minor supporting cast is the fat boy from "40 Year-Old Virgin" who came into the eBay trying to buy sparkling boots. Or from the character J.P. who is supposedly the bad guy, but doesn't look like your bad guy type or prick, he's played by Joel(Dodgeball) Moore. Kevin Nealon had a funny role and a few one-liners. I had a blast, an escape from pg-13 comedy, which I have nothing against but it gets sad. As for the games, I have know clue the characters obsession with them, but its fun listening to them talk about it. Their as been a number of blog discussions on Rogerebert.com about "gaming vs. Art" and video games ever rising to the standard of art. I agree with Ebert that it never will, but the people who are involved in producing it are twice as interesting than the games they create! This Aliye Nyoka saying "DYNO-MITE!"