Bad Grandpa
Prank You Very Much
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R | 92 min

Love me some Jackass movies.  Never want them to stop, ever (even if the bestest Jackasser of them all is dunn and gone).  If I can’t have a full on Jackass flick, I guess any Jeff Tremaine–Johnny Knoxville–Spike Jonze Jackassy joint is better than no puffing at all.  Well, that trio is back with Bad Grandpa, centered around the (not exactly my favorite) Knoxville as 86-year-old Irving Zisman character.  They loosely string together a bunch of pranks into a barely narrative road movie, complete with an rascally adorable grandson named Billy (for your Best Supporting Actor consideration – no joke - Jackson Nicoll).  Some of these pranks don’t eggzactly work, but others do, and well, and some REALLY DO, and VERY WELLLLLLL!!!

Bad Grandpa is no Jackass.  It’s definitely no Borat / Brüno.  It’s not even as bad-mannered as Bad Santa.  And that’s fine by me, cause Bad Grandpa is Bad Grandpa, and what that is – is a fcuking good time at the theater, although this rather un-cinematic film don’t necessarily need to be seen on the big screen – unless you enjoy the company of (nearly) endless uncomfortable laughter

Wait, do you want details from the movie?  The less known, the better, cause who wants to be in on the prank ahead of time?  Prank you very much

Verdictgo: Jeepers Mos Def Worth A Peepers

Grandpa is mad GOOD today at a theater near jews

and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…

MORE slave Leia here!

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perv-iously…

My Two Suns

Precious Metal Bra

Yes We Can!

Faptooine

Franz Ferdinand
Hammerstein Ballroom
October 22nd

Ooh

It’s so good, it’s so good

It’s so good, it’s so good

It’s so good

Ooh

Thems are the opening lyrics to Donna Summer’s classic for all seasons ‘I Feel Love’.  Just hearing them words makes one FEELS good.  They also make you feel love.  And when Franz Ferdinand medleyed Donna’s delight into their own ‘Can’t Stop Feeling’ (hear below), it felt more than good – it felt ecstatic, and the crowd felt love, and everyone sent that love right back to the band, who put on the best show I’ve seen this year (and the best since Pulp’s triumphant RCMH shows)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

hear, here…

Did I somehow forget how blam-mazin’ these Glaswegians were, even after 3 live dips with em - Webster Hall 2004 / free 2006 Myspace(!!!) show at Hammerstein / Roseland 2009????

But I knew what I was getting myself into, after logging hours upon endless hours listening to their latest (which they gave away free to all concert ticket purchasers!!!)

Oh dear lord is this album so FCUKING FRANZTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The fellas played SEVEN out of the album’s ten tracks, and to be perfectly honest, I wish they played all ten (how often would one ever ask for such a thing of a new album and a concert???).  That’s how stellar this album is.  It’s on par with their brilliant debut, and probably as time passes, I will regard it even higher than that one (!!!).  I tells you, it’s the best album of the 10s (that’s not the Daft Punk Tron 2 soundtrack).  Theses no jokes.  These are truths

Set List – Bullet / No You Girls / The Dark of the Matinée / Do You Want To / Evil Eye / Walk Away / Stand on the Horizon / Can’t Stop Feeling > I Feel Love (Donna Summer Cover) / The Fallen / Brief Encounters / This Fire / Take Me Out / Michael / Ulysses / Love Illumination / Goodbye Lovers & Friends 


Encore – Right Action / Darts of Pleasure / Outsiders

Kiernan Shipka as The Shining‘s Grady twins for THR

+ HOW?

how playful

woah

but all are basically bs versions of the original

Peace The Forks Out

to

Mr LittleJeans / Pagoda

+

Mercury 7 minus one more 

He(the)Man (who was mad) Fat (but not named) Albert

Foley artist of politics

he was ain’t no Bum

he was everyone’s oily Bud

the Viet-MAN

he was the like Euclid for the blind

some actor

some movie critic

he got this shot

he brought gas to the Pogues

she was like the female Eli Whitney or something

Motown mentor

he was universal

THAT DUDE

some French dude

some Italian dude

some dude who loved the Today show way too much

&

dude on Topps card #1

and somehow we missed this, years ago…

Professor Falkon / the voice of WOPR in WarGames