The man also tells his kids they’re ugly while objectifying their mother as being an unlikely catch for their kind. Then Lenny trips and breaks the boy’s leg, blowing his future.
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They have to deal with drugged bus drivers and drunk doctors and driver’s ed teachers and incompetent educators and parents and police and other authority figures.Īt one point it’s revealed that Lenny’s middle child is a shockingly gifted placekicker. Hardly anyone seems to escape to better pastures (Lenny did, and his homecoming was the story of the first film, I believe), and all the grown ups in this cursed town fail to actually become adults. Anybody who procreates in this place should be imprisoned for child endangerment. If there is any narrative to speak of that connects the activities of this madcap town, it’s this: Lenny’s wife wants to have another kid, and Lenny doesn’t, and the whole movie’s compilation of scenes make up the best argument in Lenny’s favor. Except for the kids, who see the 20th century as ancient times where rock duos had names that sounded like cereal brands (Hall & Oates, winding up the butt of an easy joke that surprisingly didn’t come out of Chris Penn’s mouth in the original Footloose).
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Yes, I’m using examples from more than 20 years ago, but that’s okay because the residents populating the world of this movie are stuck even further back. If it was on television it’d be somewhere between the mean-spiritedness of Married… With Children and the surreality of Get a Life.
Grown Ups 2, which is directed by regular Sandler movie helmer Dennis Dugan ( Grown Ups Happy Gilmore Jack and Jill), is a mostly plotless movie, a feature-length sitcom (some supporting players even have catchphrases) where the situation is that it’s set in a town filled with maturity-challenged morons. And that winds up being the most logical moment for all of the next 100 minutes. They chase it around the house, it eats the dog’s food, pisses again on Lenny’s showering/masturbating teen son and then finally exits through the front door, which had been left open all night. His wife ( Salma Hayek) sees it, screams and the animal rears and then pisses in Sandler’s face. This is a movie that opens with Sandler’s character, Lenny, waking up to the sight of a big buck deer staring back at him in his bedroom. I might have even smiled once or twice at something ridiculous. It astounded me too much with its nonsense, and it’s not nearly as offensive as I’d anticipated. At the screening I attended, mostly including non-press, there was a fairly continuous roar of laughter.Īs for me, all I can say is I didn’t dislike it. And I know at least some people liked this one.
That doesn’t mean people liked it (gross doesn’t actually account for taste), but they made a sequel regardless. At $271m, it’s the highest grossing movie worldwide for both Sandler and his production company, Happy Madison. You likely didn’t see the original either. If you know you don’t like Adam Sandler and Co., you probably won’t like this one. But I took the bullet for the team and saw Grown Ups 2 anyway.
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