The film was released on July 12, 2013.ĭialogue Lenny Feder: Look at this.
The film is produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film is the sequel to Grown Ups (2010). Grown Ups 2 is a 2013 American buddy comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, and produced by Adam Sandler. This page has been listed as needing cleanup since.
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Please review Wikiquote:Templates, especially the standard format of film articles, to determine how to edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. But “Grown Ups” and a dozen other half-hearted productions suggest they won’t succeed with such statements while they’re trying to succeed commercially.This film article needs cleanup. He and Rock, more than their costars, may yet have good movies in them about embracing adult responsibilities after years of playing the fool. That he would make an exception for “Grown Ups” says nothing good about his trajectory as an artist. Sandler, whose best work tends to be his least rewarded at the box office, has never before made a sequel. well, Chris Rock gets to ad-lib one or two funny lines and spend the rest of the film waiting for something better to come along. Here, Lenny must contend with the news that his wife (Salma Hayek) wants to have a fourth child Eric, inexplicably, must keep his wife (Maria Bello) in the dark about how much time he spends keeping his elderly mother company Marcus must make peace with the thuggish son he never knew he sired and Kurt. Like the first film, this one is built upon the seriously misguided idea that five or ten minutes of sentimental family-values talk can coexist with an hour and a half of burp-snarting and the like. Instead, they spontaneously decide to throw an 80s-themed yard party, and in a couple of hours half the town arrives in costumes that would have taken a week to assemble. A rivalry is born, though the adults don’t know they’re being targeted for destruction. Visiting a favorite swimming hole so Eric can dive off the cliff he always feared, they cross paths with a band of frat boys (led by Taylor Lautner), whose collective loutishness makes Sandler & Co. Soon the fellows are trying to make old bodies do what young ones never did. Together they pioneer new bodily functions (Eric’s “Burp-snarting,” which may sound more amusing than it is) and fantasize about those they don’t get enough of: Attending their daughters’ dance rehearsal, they can’t stop gawking at an instructor the credits helpfully dub “Hot Dance Teacher.”
Set on the last day of school, the script follows as Lenny commandeers his kids’ bus (the driver, played by Nick Swardson, is high on pills) and, after dropping them and their schoolmates off, makes a day of it with his hooky-playing pals. Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a catalog of tossed-out material. The opening scene, in which a deer wanders into Lenny’s house, offers two separate occasions in which the beast rears back on hind legs to urinate on someone the second goes on long enough to suggest someone has a fetish to indulge. Which is not at all to say that the humor has matured. Happily, this film’s conception of male friendship is less reliant on insults and abuse than its predecessor, and doesn’t need to paint the men’s wives as shrews in order to give the motley bunch something in common.
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But that’s largely because few moviegoers have memories kind enough to have already erased 2010’s “Grown Ups” - which offered almost every loathsome quality of this installment, plus Rob Schneider.Īdam Sandler returns as Lenny, a Hollywood player who since the first film has moved his family to his rural hometown, where the kids can bike to school and Dad gets plenty of Guy Time with pals Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), and Marcus (David Spade). It would be dishonest to call “Grown Ups 2" the most repellent high-profile comedy in recent memory.
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