![]() ![]() Now he’s stuck writing and acting in sequels to horrible movies. Unfortunately, those audience members saw Sandler in the glory days of Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy. With the subject matter and themes of Grown Ups 2 (getting older, trying to relive the past, children growing up, etc…) the target audience, at least in terms of the story, is clearly those who are around Sandler’s age. Watching Sandler’s career spiral like this is not an enjoyable experience either. So the countless shots of that in this movie are more painful to experience than the trips themselves. Someone getting tripped in a fight is only funny a certain number of times. If I kept this review going for another 15,000 words, then you might start to grasp the feeling of how over-long that final scene feels. But in the film, the party just serves as a way to bring every character together for the climax, getting them all in one place just so they can continue being unfunny. Maybe the local party store was having a sale, and they wanted an excuse to buy everything on display. Perhaps the movie was written as an excuse for Sandler and his pals to dress up in their best ’80s costumes for the big party. Those scenes and characters might be worth the screen time if they were actually funny, but whenever there’s a break between fart jokes we get more jokes about creeps staring at cleavage, countless vomit shots, and people getting beat up by inflatable rafts, none of which work for for the film. There are countless scenes and characters that seem to be planted for later, but actually have no place in the story at all, thus leaving them completely pointless. The movie feels less like an actual story with a plot, and more like a series of little, unfunny jokes followed by the characters reminiscing about those jokes mere minutes later. It’s almost like Adam Sandler and his co-writers (Fred Wolf and Tim Herlihy) didn’t even try to construct a film that flows. ![]() If you’re thinking that doesn’t sound like enough of a story to make an exciting movie, then you are absolutely right.
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