
Bucky Larson is a simple-minded, uneducated, beaver-toothed young man still living with his protective parents, Jeremiah and Debbie Larson, in a small Iowa town. Initially saddened when he is fired from his job as a bagger at a supermarket, he eventually sees it as a sign that he is destined for greatness in another field. Based on information he learns, Bucky believes that destiny is to become a porn star, despite being a virgin who has only recently learned about masturbati... (Full plot summary below)
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Bucky Larson is a simple-minded, uneducated, beaver-toothed young man still living with his protective parents, Jeremiah and Debbie Larson, in a small Iowa town. Initially saddened when he is fired from his job as a bagger at a supermarket, he eventually sees it as a sign that he is destined for greatness in another field. Based on information he learns, Bucky believes that destiny is to become a porn star, despite being a virgin who has only recently learned about masturbation. With his parents' blessing, Bucky hops on a bus to Los Angeles to make it big there as a porn star and is taken under the wings of a few people in LA. On the professional side, he meets the reigning king of porn, Dick Shadow, who only sees him as a laughingstock. Then washed-up porn director Miles Deep stumbles across what he sees as an untapped niche market for Bucky's limited talents and must try to convince investors who see Bucky as the exact antithesis of porn. On the personal side, Bucky befriends young diner waitress Kathy McGee, who helps him find a place to live--albeit with an insensitive oaf named Gary who only wants to get into Kathy's pants--and navigate general life in the big city. Kathy is facing her own demons as she works toward her destiny, and Bucky hopes he can help her.
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| Film.comEric D. SniderThis isn't even a series of skits, but a series of vague ideas for skits that nobody fleshed out. |
| Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczBucky Larson is a one-note joke played over and over and over. |
| TheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe entire premise feels about 35 to 40 years out of date, and while the porn business is a supremely easy target for comedy, this movie doesn't have any idea of what might be funny about it, besides perhaps "tee-hee - boobies." |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevySeveral gifted actors, Ricci, Dorff, and others, are totally wasted in this silly, unfunny comedy revolving around a single idea: a wannabe porn star who's not equipped. |
| Slant MagazineRob HumanickYou may or may not laugh, but at least you'll be closer to death and no better for it. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA comic monstrosity...plays like an unfunny idea for a raunchy five-minute sketch that's been cruelly extended to an insufferable ninety-six minutes. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanBlatantly silly and a bit bland, "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" is better than its low-rent trailer might have suggested, but not by enough to warrant a full recommendation. |
| Boston PhoenixBetsy ShermanSwardson just doesn't rise to the occasion, apparently hoping that enormous buck teeth and a Dutch Boy wig will do the acting for him. |
| MovielineAlison WillmoreThat Bucky Larson's humor is stuck at a toilet-centric grade school level is less damning than how little of that or any humor it contains - the film, directed by Tom Brady (The Hot Chick), sets up scene after scene that wanders around in the general vicinity of a joke idea without ever approaching anything like a punchline. |
| Boston GlobeTom RussoNever thought we'd say this about a movie, but Bucky Larson probably doesn't wring as much out of recurring bodily-fluid gags as it could. |