This time, though, it didn't really rub off on me as much as it repelled me from ever watching a Sandler movie again. But, much like the first film, the cast seemed to be having a lot of fun. This movie, however, is just as bad as you can imagine.
The fact of the matter is that I think the cast had a lot to do with that, they seemed to have fun and that can rub off at times. From what I was expecting, it could have been far worse than it ended up being. I wouldn't ever say that I liked the first Grown Ups, not even close, but I didn't hate it either.
When a film starts like this, you know that there's nowhere to go but down. One wonders about the IQs of the denizens of Sandlerville.Įven as temporary visitors, the audience can feel IQ points slipping away.The first five minutes of the film sees a deer sneak its way into the Feder's house and proceed to pee in everybody's mouth when they scare him. When Jon Lovitz, as a janitor, pretends to lead a yoga class, instructing women to bend over and slap their derrieres, no one hesitates to comply. Life is simple - and gross - in Sandlerville. Instead, it offers a succession of humorless gross-out gags, fat jokes, suggestive posturing, bullying, belches and pratfalls. Mystifyingly, the movie manages to emerge plot-free. Then the slapstick deer chase begins, kicking off two urination jokes and culminating with the deer galloping off with the Missus' bright pink bra dangling from its antlers. He makes some tasteless joke to his sleeping wife about her mom having come to visit from Mexico. The film opens with a sleeping Sandler waking to find a huge stag (as in deer) standing by his bed. He later spray-paints graffiti on a local college frat house. The boy towers over his scrawny father and brandishes a knife. He's a deadbeat dad with a teenage son by a woman he charmingly calls Hiccups McGee.
Kevin James plays the owner of an auto body shop who sneaks away from his wife (Maria Bello) to visit his mother (Georgia Engel)and watch soap operas.ĭavid Spade is the lone single guy of the foursome. Sandler and Salma Hayek play a couple who moved from Hollywood back to his hometown with their three adorable kids.Ĭhris Rock is a cable guy married to Maya Rudolph. Speaking of werewolves, Twilight's Taylor Lautner has a small part as an obnoxious frat boy. Geils Band's Peter Wolf shows up at an '80s-themed bash and plays Ain't Nothing But a House Party as a melee wages on. The best moments in the film are musical: a snippet of Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London plays as the guys hit K-Mart, and the J. His comic schtick has long been aimed at 13-year-old boys, but his latest efforts are an insult to adolescents of any age. This eye-rolling excursion in toilet humor seems all the more tone-deaf given that Sandler is a few years shy of 50. That's about the only economical use of crude and rude in this lazy, scattershot and anything-but-mature sequel to the leaden Grown-Ups. Sandler and company even invent a word to encapsulate three gross-outs in one: burpsnart. Since this is a re-tread with the unimaginative name of Grown Ups 2, we'll cite some numerical stats that underscore the movie's lowbrow irrelevance: Pee sight gags: 4. OK, the old part is relative and financially he's no loser, but irrelevant is hard to debate. "We're irrelevant, we're losers, we're old," he remarks about his character and his trio of middle-aged pals in this sequel to 2010's Grown Ups. Adam Sandler said it best about halfway into his latest movie debacle, Grown Ups 2 (* out of four rated PG-13 opening Friday nationwide).
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