The fact that one is always aware of the hard work that went into this out-of-touch sequel is partly what makes it so irritating. The kind of broad comedy that’s approximated here works best when there’s a potent sense of physical spontaneity and effortlessly natural wit, both of which are entirely absent from the film. The patchy script, by Sandler, Fred Wolf, and Tim Herlihy, feels particularly laborious, in fact. There’s also an ongoing battle between the middle-aged gang and a group of jerky frat brothers led by Taylor Lautner the final confrontation takes place at Lenny’s big party, which has an ’80s theme, presumably so Sandler could dust off and reuse some costumes from “The Wedding Singer.” He also dusts off the J Geils Band to perform, and suddenly that Train song doesn’t seem so awful.From the agitated CGI elk that pisses all over Adam Sandler and noshes on Taylor Lautner’s crotch, to the legal diligence likely required to clear the music rights for Warren Zevon’s immortal “Werewolves of London” to soundtrack the film’s central foursome-played by Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, and David Spade-as they shop and goof off at their local Kmart, it clearly took a lot of effort to make Grown Ups 2 happen. Turns out the Shaq appearance is necessary, because the best joke comes at his expense. The end.īefore we get to that blessed finale, though, there are many flatulence jokes vomiting Cheetos stuck up a nose and then eaten a guy shooting himself in the face with pepper spray assaults on the male cast members’ private parts a guy dressed as Boy George making out with a dog and Shaquille O’Neal in a cop uniform. His pal Kurt (Rock) suggests Lenny throw a party to celebrate.
School is just about over for the summer. Here’s what “Grown Ups 2” has: Lenny, the successful filmmaker, has left Hollywood and moved back home with his family (Hayek and three kids) to enjoy the slower-paced, small-town life. Even kids’ movies - maybe especially kids’ movies - need some sense of framework or structure or point. Nobody even tried to form any sort of narrative guideline (or write good jokes, for that matter). What follows the peeing sequence is hard to explain, because although three screenwriters are credited, including Sandler, there’s no plot at all in “Grown Ups 2.” Zero. Consider yourself warned: This is a harbinger of what’s in store as well as a crass but effective metaphor for what the filmmakers are doing to the audience.
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The movie opens with a deer breaking into Lenny’s enormous house and peeing all over him. Hayek’s cleavage in particular is singled out it gets more screen time than Steve Buscemi, which probably works in his favor.
Good move by him, because nobody escapes untainted by the foul stench of “Grown Ups 2” it’s bad enough to make you look askance at Salma Hayek, Maria Bello and Maya Rudolph, all of whom deserve a chance to do something funny other than pose as wives exuding various degrees of sexiness. The guy who played “Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo” - twice - apparently said: No thanks, I’m busy. All you need to know about this new movie? Rob Schneider sat this one out. It was forgettable but sporadically amusing, the actors’ off-screen friendships at least translating into some good-natured ribbing and unforced jokes. The first “Grown Ups” was a middling family comedy about a guy named Lenny (Adam Sandler) and his childhood friends (Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) who reunite after their basketball coach’s death and reconnect by spending part of the summer together with their families. War, plague, pestilence, famine, tornadoes, drought, head lice, cold corn dogs, the fourth hour of the “Today” show, that Train song where the guy sings about wanting a two-ply hefty bag - all of these things are far, far worse than “Grown Ups 2.” And yet sitting through this deluded, directionless, relentlessly puerile comedy somehow feels equally punishing.
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