Grandma's Boy - Linda Cardellini, Allen Covert, Adam Sandler, and the Karate Monkey

I just watched Grandma's Boy on disc. I saw it this summer at the theater and some of it was outrageously funny. Watching it at home...well, maybe it doesn't wear quite as well the second time. But it's still funny, karate monkey and all.

Allen Covert, who plays Alex, has a great quality. Likeability, I guess you'd call it. I just looked him up at IMDB. He was also "ten second Tom" in Adam Sandler's movie, "Fifty first dates", which was a fantastic movie (Happy Madison productions also did Grandma's Boy).

In fact (I just learned this), it looks like Adam Sandler does exactly what I've heard: he uses the same actors in his films. Allen Covert has also appeared in the following Sandler (Happy Madison) films: The longest Yard, Eight Crazy Nights, Little Nicky, Anger Management, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds (one of my favorite Sandler movies), Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy...and, good grief, Allen was also in The Wedding Singer and Airheads, two other Adam Sandler movies. Neat trivia there.

Here's the neatest thing, though, that I've learned about the cast of Grandma's boy: Alex's project boss was played by Linda Cardellini, who played Velma in the Scooby Doo movies. And as we all know, Velma as played by Cardellini, was HOT.