Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Proving the candid camera is alive and well, Johnny Knoxville (in makeup that totally deserves its Oscar nomination) leaves no lines uncrossed posing as foul-mouthed, boozing, womanizing Irv Zissman on the road with his eight-year-old grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) and faking folks out along the way. Taking a page from Borat, the movie has a narrative that actually works as it gives reasons for the hidden-camera scenes woven into the storyline: the plot, such as it is, has a newly widowed Irv stuck driving the boy cross-country to his deadbeat dad when his crack-whore mom goes to jail.
Some of the gags work (Irv tries mailing the boy parcel post, signs the boy up for a child beauty pageant and flies headfirst through a thrift store's plate glass window to the hysterical horror of everyone inside), some don't (some of the pranked look like they're in on it) and it's no early episode of Jackass, but there are plenty of cheap laughs to be had. Hat tip to Jackson Nicoll--the little guy clearly has some comic chops even at this young age. Extras: Behind-the-scenes footage, alternate reactions from real people, deleted scenes (Blu-ray only).
