![]() ![]() At the end there's a big 80s-themed party and a giant fight on the lawn. There are also digressions to see the wives (Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello and Salma Hayek) ogle their aerobics instructor, and when the adults get sick of working they toss the story over to the kids, who have their own share of uninteresting conflicts to work through. Pulling that off somehow involves crossing paths with a bunch of angry fraternity brother led by Taylor Lautner, shoving Spade inside that rolling tire, ogling the instructor at a little girl's ballet recital, driving a school bus, falling off an elliptical machine in the middle of K-Mart and teaching Sandler's kid to kick a football. His buddies- Chris Rock's beleaguered dad with a daughter who wants to start dating, Kevin James's beleaguered dad with two idiot kids, David Spade's beleaguered horn dog who just found out he had a 13-year-old bully of a son- are helping him throw the party. But Grown Ups 2 is at least honest about its complete lack of ambition, and if you're paying to see those kinds of jokes- and by now you surely know what you're in for- you at least won't be distracted by the presence of anything smarter.Īdam Sandler's Lenny, having relocated his family from Hollywood to his hometown, is throwing a last-day-of-school party. There's no setup for any of the physical humor, no stakes to make embarrassing moments actually matter, and no effort to liven up or refresh jokes that are repeated four or five times in the film- Nick Swardson getting hit with something, any number of characters projectile vomiting, and of course the "burp snart," a combination burp-sneeze-fart that really doesn't get funnier as it goes along. ![]() ![]() They might be funny if you saw them in real life- that deer has a bra stuck in its antlers! Your buddy David Spade is in a tire rolling downhill! Chocolate soft serve looks like poop!- but movies don't work that way, especially when populated with people who we know for a fact can be funny when they actually try. Almost none of the jokes are funny, of course. ![]()
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