10 Critically Abused Films That We All Loved Anyway (And Why)

Rotten Tomatoes Critic Score: 16%

Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: 85%

Nicholaus Goossen’s offbeat comedy Grandma’s Boy follows the plight of a 35-year-old video-game tester named Alex after he is unexpectedly forced to move out of his apartment due to his roommate blowing their rent on Filipino prostitutes. 

After being turned away by his weed dealer, Alex has no choice but to move into his grandma’s house, where he tries to finish creating his own video game.

What The Critics Said:

The Rotten Tomatoes Critic Consensus labelled Grandma’s Boy a lazy and unrewarding gross-out comedy that is far closer to gross than it is to comedic.

It was said that the only people capable of enjoying this film were gamers, stoners or indeed any mixture of the two, with everyone else having to suffer through flat toilet humour and career-low performances from the entire cast.

Why We Loved It Anyway:

This Happy Madison film is something of a rarity in that it doesn’t feature the production company’s founder Adam Sandler, with his long-time collaborator Allen Covert instead given the chance to take the reins. 

Sandler’s absence doesn’t hinder the film, however. The obviously offensive and overly sentimental Sandler tropes are still present, though Covert delivers them with a subtlety that the maestro himself simply isn’t capable of.