Occasionally, movies come out that are so bad, studios refuse to screen them for critics. To help give you a heads-up, here's our take on the trailers.
In November, previewing the fall and winter films, we summed this up as an Adam Sandler movie without Adam Sandler. After having viewed both the regular and special R-rated trailers, we comfortably stand by that statement.
Alex (Covert) is a 36-year-old video-game tester who gets evicted from his apartment after his roommate spends their rent money on hookers. Unable to find anyplace else to stay, he winds up living at his grandmother's house with her and her two friends (Roberts, Knight and Jones). Think of it as The Wizard meets The Golden Girls, only not as funny as the first or as deep as the second.
At first, Alex tries to hide his situation by claiming he's living with a "cute chick" and "her two crazy girlfriends." The truth comes out about the same time that Grandma and her friends make some tea from Alex's pot stash. The standard high jinks ensue.
The trailer (both the G- and R-rated ones are essentially the same, only the latter has more swearing, drug references and some nudity) features such concepts as a chimp wearing clothes; women taking their clothes off; and stoners not realizing they're naked. Unless you're laughing so hard you're in tears from reading that, you're better off taking the cash you'd have spent on this movie and heading for GameWorks.