By: Lindsey Nolette

Eleven years since the release of its first film, the Jackass production hasn’t changed much.

Bad Grandpa, the seventh movie for the Jackass franchise, is a devilishly funny movie that leaves the audience with 93 minutes of cheap laughs.

Featuring Johnny Knoxville’s “Grandpa” character, Bad Grandpa illustrates the journey of one grandpa’s exploits across America to deliver his grandson to his unknown deadbeat father.

In typical Knoxville fashion, Bad Grandpa, leaves the audience in a slightly shocked to laughing state. From getting his genitals stuck in a vending machine to wandering into a male strip club and joining in, to dressing his grandson Billy up as a girl and placing her in a child beauty pageant (Toddlers and Tiaras style), Knoxville evokes laughter ranging from small chuckles, gasps of shock, and deep belly laughs.

The premise of the film is, 86-year-old Irving Zisman (Knoxville) is placed in the unlikely circumstance of traveling across America to deliver his eight-year-old grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) to his previously nonexistent father.

Zisman is a dirty old man, and most of the film’s humor stems forth from this concept. Billy is often used to hit on women and to help his grandpa get lucky. Unlike other Jackass films, the film is “oddly gentle and sometimes even sentimental” said Rich Cline from Shadows on the Wall.

The film also features candid camera pranks like the popular show Jackass, serving the purpose of showing the bond which grows between Billy and Zisman, which is not typical Jackass style.

Although Bad Grandpa uses raunchy and sometimes jaw-dropping jokes, Bad Grandpa, uses a plot to connect the audience in more than just jokes, revealing to the audience the bond which develops between grandpa and grandson as the film progresses.

Knoxville relies on the reaction of the unsuspecting victims for many of the films skits.

Sam Adams from TimeOut New York, states that, “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.”

Most of Knoxville’s previous humor comes from his uninhibited will to do anything for a laugh-including physical harm. Bad Grandpa does supply some physical humor – but the fact that the victims of Knoxville’s pranks are unknowingly being used, takes away from some of the film’s shock value.

Bad Grandpa was released on Oct. 25 and has made a whopping $61.6 million in the box office.

The film was directed by Jeff Tremaine and written by Preston Lacy and Jeff Tremaine. The film gained an average rating of 60 out of 100 from critics on Rottentomatoes.com, but gained better reviews from its audience, rating a 72/100 of people who liked the film on Rottentomatoes.com as well.

If you wish to find out more about this film, the official movie website for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa is http://www.jackassmovie.com/social/.