Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and Kevin James all walk into a funeral...
You're waiting for the punch line, right? Keep waiting.
While the movie Grown Ups has some redeeming qualities and funny moments, it's not what you're used to when you go see a GOOD Adam Sandler movie - this was just a passable Adam Sandler movie. How do you know a GOOD Adam Sandler movie? Well, there are moments in it that you can quote from memory. There are lines that work their way into the public vernacular. There are scenes you re-create with friends, laughing and tossing back a few drinks. While this movie was "okay", it was not his best stuff...and you'd really think that it would be the other way around since you've added so many other superstars to the list..but not so.
In this movie, Sandler plays Lenny, a guy who has "made it big" in Hollywood and has all the trappings of wealth and fame - mostly this means that he's lost control of his kids and his kids have no idea how to BE kids. The other guys all have their own compartments that they have been stuffed into - Chris Rock bakes and stays home to take care of his family while his wife works, Spade is a single drunk, Kevin James is an out-of-work salesman who is hiding the fact that he's out of a job and Schneider plays an awkward guy with a giant toupee and an old lady who really IS an old lady. Together they make up a group of friends who grew up together and then grew apart.
After the death of their beloved coach, they spend the week in a river house so that they have the opportunity to scatter his ashes together. Their wives and children magically get along and no one ever seems to need to use the bathroom at the same time. A contingent of 17 people sharing the same space and they all get along? This movie should have been tagged "fantasy" rather than "comedy"...but I digress. Ultimately, if you're jonsing for a Sandler movie, this isn't a bad way to spend an evening. If you go into it hoping for a Happy Gilmore moment, you're going to be disappointed.
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