The genre has become less knowing since then, so the follow-up to 2010's Grown Ups is named simply Grown Ups 2. Two decades ago, when stupid Hollywood comedies were relatively smart, they lampooned their own sequelitis with titles like Hot Shots! Part Deux. With: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock Statements while they're trying to succeed commercially.Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive content, language and some male rear nudity Other half-hearted productions suggest they won't succeed with such Yet have good movies in them about embracing adult responsibilitiesĪfter years of playing the fool. He and Rock, more than their co-stars, may His trajectory as an artist - at this point, even combining those five Would make an exception for Grown Ups says nothing good about
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That his early hits were the same movie in different clothes.) That he Sandler, whose best work tends to be his least rewarded at the box Lines and spend the rest of the film waiting for something better to well, Chris Rock gets to ad-lib one or two funny
In the dark about how much time he spends keeping his elderly motherĬompany Marcus must make peace with the thuggish son he never knew he 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) Idea that five or 10 minutes of sentimental family-values talk canĬoexist with an hour and a half of burp-snarting and the like. Like the first film, this one is built upon the seriously misguided That would have taken a week to assemble. Yard party, and in a couple of hours, half the town arrives in costumes Instead, they spontaneously decide to throw an 80s-themed A rivalry isīorn, though the adults don't know they're being targeted forĭestruction. Visiting a favorite swimming hole so Eric can dive off theĬliff he always feared, they cross paths with a band of frat boys (ledīy Taylor Lautner), whose collective loutishness makes Soon the fellows are trying to make old bodies do what young ones Than it is) and fantasize about those they don't get enough of:Īttending their daughters' dance rehearsal, they can't stop gawking atĪn educator the credits helpfully dub Hot Dance Teacher. Together they pioneer newīodily functions (Eric's "burp-snarting," which may sound more amusing Makes a day of it with his hooky-playing pals. Is high on pills) and, after dropping them and their schoolmates off,
Set on the last day of school, the script follows as Lenny commandeers his kids' bus (the driver, played by Nick Swardson, Time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little The second goes on long enough to suggest someone has a fetish to Occasions where the beast rears back on hind legs to urinate on someone Scene, in which a deer wanders into Lenny's house, offers two separate Which is not at all to say that the humor has matured. Men's wives as shrews in order to give the motley bunch something in Insults and abuse than its predecessor and doesn't need to paint the Happily, this film's conception of male friendship is less reliant on School and Dad gets plenty of Guy Time with pals Eric ( Kevin James), Kurt ( Chris Rock), and Marcus ( David Spade). Has moved his family to his rural hometown, where the kids can bike to Sandler returns as Lenny, a Hollywood player who, since the first film, (Both films are directed by Dennis Dugan, who owes his career to Sandler's patronage.) The biggest (if least-deserving) hits of co-writer/co-producer/co-star Adam Sandler's career. To attract an audience to match that of the first film, which was one of
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Moviegoers have memories kind enough to have already erased 2010's Grown Ups - which offered almost every loathsome quality of this installment, plus Rob Schneider.Ī water-treading rehash even on its own terms, the sequel is unlikely It would be dishonest to call Grown Ups 2 the most repellent Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, David Spade, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello
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