• The wrongs pile up, and there's a clear object of satire. That feels new for the Jackass experience: a target that isn't a crotch. I'd like to see Irv try to strike again with braver gags.
• Onlookers occasionally glance into the camera, a pretty good sign that people are hip to these prankster movies now and just play along.
• It's been 11 years since Jackass: The Movie, and three since Jackass 3D, although it feels a lot longer than that.
• Like the lime-green bingo dabber contents Irving drinks down to the horror of his seatmates, it's an acquired taste.
• It's not really a movie. It's Johnny Knoxville and his Jackass crew faking out real people into believing he's 86-year-old Irving Zisman, an old fart bag traveling cross-country.
• Sometimes joy buzzers - and pratfalls, and funny costumes - are really all you need for a laugh or two. Or even a three-star comedy.
• What impressed me again and again is how unflappably polite Americans can be.

• New York Magazine/Vulture

  10/25/2013 by Bilge Ebiri

  For all its flaws, it might just be the most heartwarming movie of the year.
• Knoxville immerses himself in the role, radiating affection and concern for his charge. He's completely convincing, even during the most bizarre moments in 'Bad Grandpa.'
• Apart from a handful of physical stunts and the penultimate biker-bar setup, Knoxville never puts himself at risk, and the imbalance of power curdles the imperative to laugh at the rubes.

• Entertainment Weekly

  10/25/2013 by Owen Gleiberman

  You'll occasionally laugh out loud, but the heart of the movie is safe enough to chuckle at.
• The film has a story complete with a beginning, middle and end. It has some acting and emotion. And most shocking of all - it has empathy.
• It's hard to score big laughs with hidden-camera material these days because there has been so much of it since the 'Jackass' TV show, but Mr. Knoxville and his young sidekick still land a few jaw-droppers.
• This whole movie is pretty much a mental colon blow.
• Not only stands as the best installment (by bounds) of Johnny Knoxville's hidden-camera franchise; it's one of the sharpest comedies of the year.

• Minneapolis Star Tribune

  10/24/2013 by Colin Covert

• Though at times it grows predictable and more inane than outrageous, 'Bad Grandpa' gets more than its share of cheap laughs.

• San Francisco Chronicle

  10/24/2013 by Peter Hartlaub

  Some of the pranks are masterfully executed; the beauty pageant and a disastrous funeral near the beginning stand out. But on the whole, 'Bad Grandpa' can't locate a consistent groove.
• Although we're allowed the perverse pleasure of watching Irving commit one inappropriate act after another, our sense of horror/delight dissipates after each one.

• New York Daily News

  10/24/2013 by Elizabeth Weitzman

  Knoxville and the perfectly cast Nicoll have great chemistry throughout. But longtime 'Jackass' director Jeff Tremaine consistently cuts away too quickly, undermining each joke in order to rush on to the next.

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