[Movie Review] Grown Ups 2 (2013)

Posted on July 12, 2013 by thegrandshuckett in Movie Reviews // 1 Comment

Plot Summary: After moving his family back to his hometown to be with his friends and their kids, Lenny (Adam Sandler), finds out that between old bullies, new bullies, schizo bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, and 400 costumed party crashers sometimes crazy follows you.

Director: Dennis Dugan

Writer: Fred Wolf, Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy

Runtime: 101 min

Main Cast:

Adam Sandler as Lenny Feder
Kevin James as Eric Lamonsoff
Chris Rock as Kurt McKenzie
Salma Hayek as Roxanne Chase-Feder
David Spade as Marcus Higgins
Maya Rudolph as Deanne McKenzie

Review: by Anthony and Lee

We have determined that we are masochistic. Adam Sandler's recent movies have been terrible, and we assumed that Grown Ups 2 would be no different, filled with fart jokes and Adam Sandler's friends cameos. Knowing all of this, we went to see it anyway, but we somehow managed to still be surprised.

What We Liked:

Reluctantly, we mush admit that we laughed. We smiled, chuckled, giggled, and all of that jazz, so we cannot say that it was not funny.

It was the typical Adam Sandler movie with all its regular cameos, which we liked. There was also a ton of cameos by past and present Saturday Night Live members, which was great. However, there were some rather unexpected cameos that we enjoyed, such as Taylor Lautner as a dumb frat bro, showing off his world champion martial arts skills, and Stone Cold Steve Austin as Sandler’s former bully.

What We Didn’t Like:

We have admitted that we laughed, but almost all of said laughs were from dumb jokes. The movie was largely scatalogical and physical humor, a.k.a. poop jokes and gut punches. A major portion of the movie was dedicated to inflicting bodily harm on Nick Swardson, whose entire existence in the movie was as a punchline.

It was non-stop string of really bad jokes and over-the-top gags. It got really old really fast.

OH, and Shaquille O’Neal had no business being in this movie. Seriously, every moment he was onscreen was sheer torture.

Summary

If you like 101 minutes of juvenile fart jokes and cheap slapstick humor, you’ll think this was the best movie ever. Again, we admit that we laughed at a few jokes, but that was only because when the jokes are that frequent you’re bound to chuckle at something. We would absolutely recommend that you see this movie just to witness its horrors, but we would just as strongly recommend that no one actually pay to see it. Our advice would be to wait until it is out on Netflix or even just regular old USA.

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