Fri., Jan. 6, 2006 12:00 AM PST
Now, it isn't as bad as a movie about thirtysomething dorks playing videogames with monkeys might sound. The real shame of
Grandma's Boy isn't the juvenile humor, it's that there's a lot of solid humor potential here, and it's just not realized.
Adam Sandler produced this comedy about a 36-year-old pothead videogame tester forced to move in with his grandma, and it features regular Sandler-movie bit player Allen Covert (who also cowrote).
But the guy just isn't leading-man material. He and cowriters Nick Swardson and Barry Wernick clearly understand the gamer/geek milieu, and their 30-year-old virgins are more believable as characters than
Judd Apatow and
Steve Carell's recent 40-year-old model. Unfortunately, they're nowhere near as funny. Linda Cardellini steals the show with a slutty, drunken karaoke version of Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It," but
Dodgeball's Joel David Moore is heinously miscast as a goofy ?ber-nerd who would have totally
killed if played by, say,
Jon Heder. So many missed opportunities, all we can say is, "Dang!"
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