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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Directed by Larry Charles
influenced Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013), Jackass: The Movie (2002)
Themes Plot
It makes it all the more rewarding to see folks call Irving out on his irresponsible behaviour as a caregiver, but it’s only a mild exposé compared to Borat ’s brilliant social spotlighting.
In a traditional comedy this kind of audacity would have inspired guilt in those that found it amusing, but here is a movie that, like “Borat” and “Bruno,” uses its shame in a strategic illusion to get reactions out of unsuspecting victims.
Presumably titled to take advantage of alphabetical proximity to hits like Bad Santa and Bad Teacher , Bad Grandpa also borrows heavily from Borat by sending Zisman on a cross-country trip.
Bad Grandpa is, at any rate, an uncertain marriage of the hidden-camera extreme stunt comedy of the TV show Jackass and its three movie spin-offs (I have seen a couple bits from the show, nothing at all of the movies) with an improvised "embarrass the civilians" narrative generally modeled after Borat .
In structure and concept, the film resembles the faux-documentary “ Borat ,” with the distinction that the cameras here are all hidden.
Before I get to that, you need to know that Bad Grandpa borrows heavily from the Borat handbook.
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
Directed by Dan Mazer
influenced by Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Plot Themes
Back in 2013, the Jackass team conjured up Bad Grandpa , with Johnny Knoxville slapping on old man prosthetics and acting incorrigibly.
Not to be confused with Bad Grandpa (the hidden camera prank movie starring Johnny Knoxville in old man make-up), this painfully unfunny, deliberately offensive comedy marks a new low in Robert De Niro’s career and will undoubtedly rank as one of the worst films of the year, despite the fact that it’s still only January.
People are already confusing it with Johnny Knoxville’s Bad Grandpa, but that movie is 12 Years A Slave compared to this.
The imposition of this masterplot is really the only thing separating the film from "Jackass" spin-off Bad Grandpa , just as one word is the only thing separating the two concepts.
The Jackass guys, whose "Bad Grandpa" runs rings around this one, could teach Mazer a thing or two.
All of this invites comparisons to both Sideways (last-hurrah-before-a-wedding road trip) and Bad Grandpa (intergenerational male bonding), most of them unfavorable.
Somebody noticed the show's proximity to Pink Flamingos, so John Waters materializes to help out with the magic.
Us (2019)
Directed by Jordan Peele
influenced by Jackass: The Movie (2002), Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Directed by Jeff Tremaine ("Bad Grandpa," "Jackass: The Movie").
Directed by Jeff Tremaine ("Bad Grandpa," "Jackass: The Movie").
The Boy Next Door (2015)
Directed by Rob Cohen
influenced by Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Visuals
So it’s perfect timing when the handsome and muscular Noah ( Ryan Guzman ) moves into the house next door to help his ailing uncle (who distractingly resembles Johnny Knoxville in his “Bad Grandpa” makeup).
Enter the “boy” next door Noah ( Ryan Guzman of the Step Up franchise), a handsome youth newly arrived to care for his ailing uncle (who bears a striking resemblance to Johnny Knoxville ’s titular Bad Grandpa).
Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman, “Step Up Revolution” and “Step Up All In”) moves in next door to help care for an elderly relative who looks for all the world like Johnny Knoxville in his “Bad Grandpa” makeup.
The Dirt was directed by Jeff Tremaine (Bad Grandpa, Jackass: The Movie) and written by Tom Kapinos (Lucifer) and Amanda Adelson (Mid90s), with a screenplay by Rich Wilkes (xXx, Airheads).
A Walk to Remember (2002)
Directed by Adam Shankman
influenced Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Music
With that said, Knoxville and Nicoll are awfully sweet together, even when they're bonding over beers and talk of finding tail (it helps that one particular montage is scored to King Harvest's soaring "Dancing in the Moonlight," which 2002's " A Walk to Remember " already proved can make any movie better).
It seems difficult to justify seeing it on paper, but look at the evidence closer: Quickly evolving from producer/co-creator of MTV’s juvenilia celebration Jackass, to directing music videos (granted, award-winning ones), Jonze saw an Oscar nod for Best Director his first time out at the helm of a feature-length film (Being John Malkovich).
He made his early rep as the skateboarding director of videos for the Beastie Boys and Fatboy Slim, and birthed the Jackass franchise in its MTV and movie incarnations.
Spike Jonze, who directed some good films like BEING JOHN MALKOVICH and wrote some lesser works like episodes of the TV show "Jackass" (which he also created), for the first time directs his own script.
It’s a perfect tale for Mr. Jonze, a fabulist whose sense of the absurd informs his more broadly comic endeavors (notably his work on the “Jackass” movies, including “Bad Grandpa”) and the straighter if still kinked art-house films he’s directed, like “Being John Malkovich” and “Adaptation.”
He is ogling a woman getting out of the pool in slow-motion, after which she goes over to the former Jackass -star and tells him “It’s blow-time, mister.”
But in the pantheon of “Bad” movies—“ Bad Santa ,” “ Bad Teacher ,” “Bad Grandpa”—this one’s actually pretty good.
Of all the movies to follow the Bad formula — a collection that includes Bad Grandpa, Bad Teacher, Bad Santa, and that has somehow retroactively enveloped Abel Ferrara’s not-like-the-others 1992 Bad Lieutenant — Bad Moms clearly features the lowest standards for what constitutes misbehavior.
Sure, there may not any formal connection between Bad Santa , Bad Teacher , Bad Grandpa , Bad Words , Bad Gymnast (sorry, The Bronze ), and the new Bad Moms apart from the universal desire to attract audiences with the promise of zanily inappropriate behavior from people who are supposed to be role models and/or authority figures.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Directed by David Leitch
influenced by Jackass: The Movie (2002)
Visuals
From a city-wide chase – that not only features a lot of Glasgow, but owes Tron: Legacy a huge debt – to a power-plant showdown that sees Statham punching Elba while Elba punches Johnson in an unforgettable punch-athon – think Bam Margera’s Rocky segments in Jackass .
By the time Sixx references his life’s greatest love by saying “and her name … was heroin,” you’ll either ride out this tonal rollercoaster between Straight Outta Compton and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story or step out of line for another streaming option.
The Dirt was directed by Jeff Tremaine (Bad Grandpa, Jackass: The Movie) and written by Tom Kapinos (Lucifer) and Amanda Adelson (Mid90s), with a screenplay by Rich Wilkes (xXx, Airheads).
Even Airheads, the 1994 comedy that spoofed Sunset Strip hard-rock culture, had a more gripping storyline and emotional arc (and certainly more laughs) than this tale of a real band that helped define that scene.
Rich Wilkes, who also penned the low-brow '90s comedies The Jerky Boys and Airheads , took a stab at the screenplay.