Grown Ups

Too Rude for Family, Too Soft for Adults

The Story:

Five friends and former basketball teammates reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn’t mean growing up.

Release Date: June 25, 2010
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Directed By: Dennis Dugan (Big Daddy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello
Budget: $80,000,000
Gross Revenue: $162,001,186 (USA) $271,419,251 (worldwide)

Review:

There’s really no point to try to review the plot of Grown Ups, because it basically has none. The story is centered to five men who try to create a nostalgic moment in a lake house after their childhood basketball coach dies. The characters seem to have no goal during the vacation. They just sit, talk, swim, play basketball, and that should cover the whole story.

Then why Grown Ups can gained hundred millions in box office chart? Well, have you seen the cast? Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider are all a money-making machines in comedy genre. In this movie, they all perform better than they supposed to, considering the poor script that given to them. I’m glad that the jokes were not coming from slapstick moment, but much from the dialogue. Not a smart-scripted words, but a bunch of one liner sarcasm jokes that they throw at each others.

There are a lot of woman characters too in this movie, but they play just as eye candies without no real proportion. It’s too bad that the only thing we’re gonna remember from Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Madison Riley and Jamie Chung appearances on this movie are just their bikini scenes (which quite plenty).

Besides the lack of plot, the real problem of this movie is it can’t decided whether it want to become a family movie or an R rated comedy movie. There are some warm family moments in Grown Ups, but the jokes are too rude for children and teenage. In the contrary, those five actors and bunch of hot actresses should create a good, sexy, black comedy. When Grown Up try to go both way, it just creates a mess.

Okay, it’s a no-brainer, so what? There’s nothing wrong to see a forgettable comedy movies once in a while. Just like all Adam Sandler/Rob Schneider movies, this one is still enjoyable to watch.

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My Rating: C+

IMDb user rating: 5.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 10%

Metacritic: 30/100

Yahoo! critics: C-

Yahoo! users: B-

Your Ratings: (1 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)
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