This single day-in-the-life of the foursome begins with Lenny awoken by a deer sniffing at the side of his bed. Lenny’s life-changing move was based on a desire to be closer to his buddies Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock) and Marcus (David Spade) who serve as the clowns that often surround the characters Sandler plays in his films. Reprising his role as Lenny, he is the father of three children and the husband to Roxanne (Salma Hayek)-a woman whose intelligence and beauty confirms the backstory that her husband must have made some good money in Hollywood before returning to his California hometown. This movie’s plot, four middle-aged men who want to relive the glory days, becomes flotsam and jetsam tossed down the drain to make way for an endless lather of frenetic slapstick setups featuring grown men receiving impacts to the crotch, diving naked from a cliff and partying like it’s 1989.Īs usual Sandler is the semi-sensible pack leader of the group. Sandler has done well with the very same tactic by repeating a well-honed template in virtually all of the movies produced by his company.įor starters, don’t worry if you haven’t seen the first Grown Ups. Marketing mythology says the person who came up with the idea of adding that third word-“repeat”-to the instructions on a shampoo bottle nearly doubled the sales of their company’s product.
It’s an idiom I can see perfectly framed and hung above the office door at Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions. Just, saying.įINAL ANALYSIS: Only if you really loved Grown Ups as this sequel takes a nose dive.Lather, rinse, repeat. While most of the language gets off color in a comedic way, showing the main character’s behinds is more gross than funny. Grown Ups 2 has been rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive content, language and some male rear nudity. Sorry Adam, but with your comedic brilliance you could have come up with a better ending. Instead Dugan drags out the incident by making it a lame reason to turn the final party into a fiasco. There’s a lot said about keeping to what makes an audience laugh and although Taylor Lautner as a college preppy pulls off some very funny handshakes and gets the boys forced into jumping into the quarry, it should have been left at that. Greg Feder (Jake Goldberg), Roxanne Feder (Salma Hayek), Keithie Feder (Cameron Boyce), Becky Feder (Alexys Nycole Sanchez) and Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler) in their home with a deer. He’s good at showing life with a twist and although we may never experience it, it’s out there and Sandler crams it into his hour and 41 minute film. Most of his gags are one time laughs and not very memorable.
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But, actually there’s too much going on in the movie and that’s where it loses comedic momentum. He leads the cast into some very funny circumstances including a hilarious trip to K-Mart, his daughter’s recital, a football challenge for his son, rescuing a school bus, Eric getting a car wash and a wild party. Sandler does a good job of being himself especially in the opening scene where he has to escape a wild animal. It’s Grown Ups on drugs and Dugan keeps flipping channels at the end of each wild situation.
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Director Dennis Dugan keeps the chaos going with a psycho school bus driver (Nick Swardson), silly cops (Shaquille O’Neal and Peter Dante), a tough jealous husband (Steve Austin) and more gags than one film can handle. The wacky comedy does a one up on the previous film with some wild sight gags, most of which are in the trailer (do not watch the trailer). Tommy (Shaquille O’Neal) and Dante (Peter Dante) watching the dance recital