Kurt (Rock) delights when his wife (Maya Rudolph) forgets their anniversary because it gives him a "get out of jail free" card. For the record, my limit for those jokes is zero. Perhaps even he has a limit regarding films that feature two incidents of a deer peeing in someone's face, two examples of someone eating something they pulled from their own orifice and two MC Hammer jokes within the span of a few minutes. I don't know why characters played by Sandler (who "co-wrote" the "script"), Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade no longer see or mention their lifelong friend played by Rob Schneider in the blatantly unnecessary "Grown Ups 2," but it might be the best career decision Schneider's ever made. The entitled-celebs-hanging-out-and-vaguely-calling-it-a-story in 2010's "Grown Ups" was a movie like toddlers in a sandbox is a political summit. Stupid is fine to mistake crass and hateful for laid-back entertainment is its own, vile brand of dumb. ![]() And I'm not having another online debate with a reader who insists lazy, misogynistic, pointless Adam Sandler movies epitomize innocent, stupid fun. I won't describe all the ways the characters mock unattractive women and objectify beauties while suggesting it's normal to fear your wife. I won't list a lot of the jokes in "Grown Ups 2" because pathetic cracks about Chia pets and "Droolio Iglesias" speak for themselves. Two decades ago, when stupid Hollywood comedies were relatively smart, they lampooned their own sequelitis with titles like Hot Shots! Part Deux.Zero stars (out of four) You know what? No. The genre has become less knowing since then, so the follow-up to 2010's Grown Ups is named simply Grown Ups 2. Like its predecessor, this is a vehicle for Adam Sandler, his pals and whatever they think they can get away with. That means some creepy sexual insinuations, if not so many as the first time.īut excreta and flatulence are the movie's two true fixations (with projectile vomiting running a strong third). ![]() Indeed the story opens with a sequence in which a large male deer urinates copiously on not one but two of the characters. It's a fitting introduction to the movie's tone. Rob Schneider couldn't make it to the set for the second installment, it seems, but the other principals play the same roles as before. Sandler is Lenny, a Hollywood agent who's now relocated to the small Massachusetts town of his youth, supposedly because it's a more wholesome place for the three kids he's raising with wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek).Īlso living there are Marcus (David Spade), a single man with odd taste in women, and two couples: Kurt and Deanne (Chris Rock and Maya Rudolph) and Eric and Sally (Kevin James and Maria Bello), who have multiple children - although not the exact same lineups they had previously. ![]() Roxanne wants to have a fourth child, but Lenny is reluctant. Eric is spending too much time with his mother (Georgia Engel, still riffing on her Mary Tyler Moore Show role as Ted Baxter's naive girlfriend). Marcus, meanwhile, meets the son he didn't know he'd fathered, who turns out to be large and threatening. And two teenage offspring ponder their first dates. To call these plot points would be to overstate their importance. Even more than the first one, Grown Ups 2 is a series of riffs, skits and sight gags, barely integrated into anything resembling continuity.
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