Nick Swardson and Christina Ricci in "Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star"; photo courtesy of Sony Pictures

“Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star” (Sony Pictures)

Who was the idiot who greenlighted this mess of a movie? Did someone actually think a movie about a mentally challenged young man wanting to be a porn star would attract an audience? And why would Adam Sandler throw his large talent behind such a project and then compound the horror by having his wife appear in the film? “Bucky Larson: Born To Be A Star” is as gross and excruciating a movie as I have ever sat through. May it quickly be gone from sight and sound never to be heard of again.

Nick Swardson plays Buck, a cheerful young man working as a bag boy at a local grocery store.  Just to be mean his boss (Curtis Armstrong) fires him. Later that night he learns his mom and dad (Miriam Flynn and Edward Hermann) were porn stars in their youth. Bucky decides to head west and become a porn star too.

In Hollywood he meets up with a porn director (Don Johnson) and a porn star (Stephen Dorff). Before you know it Bucky is a star, for all the wrong reasons. He even attracts the love and affection of a sweet young waitress (Christina Ricci).

All of this is presented in the grossest and most non-entertaining way. Johnson, Dorff, Swardson, Ricci, Flynn, Hermann, Armstrong, Nick Turturro and Jackie Sandler should all hang their heads in shame for taking part in this dud. Hermann should be especially sorry or has he fallen on such hard times that he is required to act in this tripe. I mean he played FDR and now this!

The film is rated R but it should be NC-17. There is nudity, sexual situations, and profanity.

I have never been so glad to see a movie end as I was this one. When deciding my score for the film I could come up with nothing positive in the viewing experience. I decided to award it my first ever “0.” That says it all.