Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) poster
2013 · comedy

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Directed by Jeff Tremaine1h 32m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.5100kRT61%Metacritic54
  • warm
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

Our read · Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want hidden-camera cringe comedy that sneaks in surprising grandfather-grandson heart.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliationnudity

Skip it tonightYou're easily embarrassed or hate Jackass-style public humiliation gags entirely.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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