Mikey D

First off, I hadn't even heard of this movie until Grace told me about it on our ride home to Maryland. It's called "Grandma's Boy" and it came out in January of 06', and it's produced by Happy Madison Productions. How did I not know about this movie??? I'm still wondering...

Anyway, the movie has a shitload of people in it. David Spade, Kevin Nealon, and Rob Schneider all have bit parts (some of the good SNL people from the day), Allen Covert is the main character (he's in every Adam Sandler movie), Joel Moore (skinny guy from Dodgeball), Jonah Hill (Superbad and Knocked Up), Doris Roberts (Everybody Loves Raymond- Ray's mom), Peter Dante (again, every Adam Sandler movie every made), Nick Swardson (Reno 911, Blades of Glory), and even Kevin Nash (I know you'll appreciate that one Adam). Basically think of the funniest movies from the past decade, and there's at least one character from those movies in this one. It makes for a great/familiar cast. Again, how did I not know about this movie with all these people in it?

The movie is basically about a video game programmer named Jeff, who is 35 and stuck in a rut. He works as a video game tester at a company called 'Brainasium" with kids ten years his younger. One of those kids is J.P., the company's video game prodigy who creates all the best-selling games, and whose latest game, called 'Eternal Deathslayer 3', is falling behind schedule. The company decides to bring in Samantha, a super hot babe whose job is to get the game released on time. From that point on Jeff has to deal with working with J.P. (and having his game design stolen by J.P.), being the oldest in the company, living with his grandparents, and with his growing feelings for his new coworker, Samantha.

There are a ton of pot jokes in this movie, so if you like to smoke weed, I think you've found yourself a winner. But besides that, the thing that appeals most to me about the movie was that it is centered around this group of video game nerds. Now the whole movie could have been nerd jokes about gamers (and well, it is), but the movie also portrays these guys as kind of cool. I liked that. They played video games, had fun, and sometimes got girls. They all had the attitude of "Yeah were nerdy gamers, and your point is? Oh, none? Well then fuck off." I liked it.
I'd give you some quotes, but I found a couple of funny scenes that I liked the best. Take a look.

Anyway, all in all I give the movie 3/4 of a thumbs up. It falls into that Super Troopers and Harold and Kumar genre. It's worth watching. Kevin, I'm really curious to see what your reaction to this movie will be. I don't know if the crude sex and pot jokes will get annoying to you, or the video game humor will make you laugh. Adam, I have no earthly idea if you will think this is funny. You hated Blades of Glory, but liked Knocked Up. I was just the opposite. You will just have to see it and let me know.

~Mikey D