Whether he would have appreciated seeing this trick repeated no less than five times is an enigma for the ages, though the sheer amount of pissing, vomiting, ear picking, crotch sniffing, man-on-dog tongue kissing and belly-button lint eating that the film contains would surely push anyone over the edge. Dalloway” - it features plentiful flatulence, and James Joyce might well have appreciated the neologism “burpsnart,” which describes Kevin James’ character’s ability to burp, sneeze and fart simultaneously. Dalloway” and “Ulysses,” “Grown Ups 2” unfolds entirely within the span of a single day in this case, the last day of school in a small Massachusetts town. But more importantly, while “Grown Ups” made some often cringeworthy attempts to shoehorn maudlin life lessons and character arcs into all the crotch smashing, this sequel barely attempts to function as a piece of narrative filmmaking at all, almost immediately devolving into a hash of frantic, random incidents strung together with the slimmest sliver of coherence.
Most obviously, although Dennis Dugan is back in the director’s chair and stars Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade all reprise their roles as high-school buddies turned over-the-hill dads, Rob Schneider is mysteriously missing. It is all but guaranteed a strong opening weekend.Ī follow-up to 2010’s critically savaged yet massively lucrative “Grown Ups,” this sequel introduces a few changes. Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, “ Grown Ups 2” is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making “Ow! My Balls!” seem like a plausible future project. These bookends are not only the film’s highlights, they also represent the closest it comes to establishing any sort of narrative throughline. The penultimate scene (spoiler alert) depicts the very same deer apparently castrating Taylor Lautner. Hayek, Maya Rudolph and Maria Bello are all better than this, but I guess a paycheck's a paycheck.The first scene in “ Grown Ups 2” depicts a deer urinating directly onto Adam Sandler’s face. The women are there to harp about wanting more babies, to change the babies' diapers, go to the gym (with their baby), and play mom to not only their kids but to their man-child husbands as well. There are fart jokes, pee jokes, '80s jokes, old age jokes, ethnic jokes, gay jokes, sight gags, fatty fall down ( that means you Kevin James), pretty much the whole checklist of stale yuks. Otherwise, the film's just interminably dull and uninvolving.
There are three credited screenwriters on this, including Sandler, and I can count on one hand the number of times that I came passably close to cracking a smile. They've gone the same route of playing bland, suburban schmoes that previously did in the likes of Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy. The four principals may have been (and can occasionally still be) really funny once, but you'd never know it from watching either of the Grown Ups films.
#THE GROWN UPS 2 FULL#
Inert, dull, and, worst of all for a comedy, unfunny, the sequel is chock full of tired, dumb jokes and pretty lame slapstick. As you can see, this isn't the densest of plots. Everything builds toward an '80s-themed party in Lenny's sprawling backyard.
Meanwhile, Marcus discovers he has a violent brute of a teenage son (Alexander Ludwig). With their kids' school out for the summer, Lenny and his longtime pals Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), and Marcus (David Spade) find themselves running afoul of some local college jocks (led by Taylor Lautner) as well as dealing with some people from their past.
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