Bucky Larson, a small-town man-child with big buck teeth, works at a local grocery store, and still lives at home.

One night while watching porn with his friends, he stumbles upon a family secret: his quiet and reserved parents were famous adult performers in the 1970s.

This motivates him to leave northern Iowa for Hollywood, hoping to follow in their footsteps and fulfill his destiny as the biggest adult-film star in the world.

Once he reaches Los Angeles, he meets and falls in love with Kathy, a kindhearted waitress, who introduces him to Gary, the former roommate of John Mayer.

But after one of the crew uploads the video to YouTube, Bucky achieves popularity as his small penis makes women appreciate their partner's endowment and the men do not feel threatened.

The site's critics consensus called it a "severely misguided and inept comedy incapable of even telling its single joke properly.

"[4] On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 9 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike", based on reviews from 13 critics,[5] making it the worst-reviewed wide release of 2011.

[7] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "B" on scale of A to F.[8] Orlando Sentinel critic Roger Moore stated "the concept, and the movie that comes from it aren't funny.

It's not a matter of one sorry element dragging the rest down; it's every terrible component amplifying the awfulness of everything else", later calling it "one of the ugliest, most misguided comedies in recent memory.

It lost in all six categories to Jack and Jill, another poorly received film in which Adam Sandler and Nick Swardson had involvement.

[1] Swardson defended Bucky Larson in an October 2011 interview, in which he blamed its poor financial showing on the difficulties of advertising the material: "To promote an R-rated movie, with commercials, with this character, it was just really, really hard.