If anyone else made a garbage effort at their job, they’d get fired. Sandler has since commented on the critical response to Grown Ups 2, stating that he had fun making it because he was with his friends – but he seems to forget that people are meant to pay money to see this. The first Grown Ups managed, at least, to show that the ensemble had chemistry. The film stars a group of actors who all seem to be good friends. And this is shortly after Lenny has been urinated on by a moose in his house. The women are all there to either serve the male characters as sexual objects or simply as mothers of their children it only takes 10 minutes for Adam Sandler’s Lenny to start high-fiving the postman because he passed comment on Roxanne’s (Salma Hayek) breasts. The characters try and deliver some morality tale about being bullied as kids, but then the jokes throughout the film essentially stem from them bullying other people. There’s no real way of summarising a plot, because there isn’t one. It’s difficult to really deliver key reasons as to why the film is so bad because it manages to tick so many boxes. Watch Grown Ups 2 online in the UK: Netflix UK / TalkTalk TV / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / Google PlayĪdam Sandler and the gang return for the least anticipated sequel in recent memory, but was the critical battering Grown Ups 2 received upon its theatrical release justified? In a nutshell: yes. But Grown Ups 2 and a dozen other half-hearted productions suggest they won’t succeed with such statements while they’re trying to succeed commercially.Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock He and Rock, more than their co-stars, may yet have good movies in them about embracing adult responsibilities after years of playing the fool. (One could argue, of course, that his early hits were the same movie in different clothes.) That he would make an exception for Grown Ups says nothing good about his trajectory as an artist - at this point, even combining those five words may provoke snickers. Sandler, whose best work tends to be his least rewarded at the box office, has never before made a sequel. Here, Lenny must contend with the news that his wife ( Salma Hayek) wants to have a fourth child Eric, inexplicably, must keep his wife ( Maria Bello) in the dark about how much time he spends keeping his elderly mother company Marcus must make peace with the thuggish son he never knew he sired and Kurt … well, Chris Rock gets to ad-lib one or two funny lines and spend the rest of the film waiting for something better to come along. Like the first film, this one is built upon the seriously misguided idea that five or 10 minutes of sentimental family-values talk can coexist with an hour and a half of burp-snarting and the like. PHOTOS: From Fat to Fit: 8 Funnymen Who Trimmed Down Instead, they spontaneously decide to throw an 80s-themed yard party, and in a couple of hours, half the town arrives in costumes that would have taken a week to assemble. A rivalry is born, though the adults don’t know they’re being targeted for destruction. Visiting a favorite swimming hole so Eric can dive off the cliff he always feared, they cross paths with a band of frat boys (led by Taylor Lautner), whose collective loutishness makes Sandler & Co. Soon the fellows are trying to make old bodies do what young ones never did. Together they pioneer new bodily functions (Eric’s “burp-snarting,” which may sound more amusing than it is) and fantasize about those they don’t get enough of: Attending their daughters’ dance rehearsal, they can’t stop gawking at an educator the credits helpfully dub Hot Dance Teacher. Set on the last day of school, the script follows as Lenny commandeers his kids’ bus (the driver, played by Nick Swardson, is high on pills) and, after dropping them and their schoolmates off, makes a day of it with his hooky-playing pals. Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a catalog of tossed-out material. The opening scene, in which a deer wanders into Lenny’s house, offers two separate occasions where the beast rears back on hind legs to urinate on someone the second goes on long enough to suggest someone has a fetish to indulge. Which is not at all to say that the humor has matured. PHOTOS: 26 of Summer’s Most Anticipated Movies
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