![]() I wish I could sit them all down, put clamps on their eyelids to hold them open, and force them to watch old 90’s SNL episodes and Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, the Wedding Singer, and The Waterboy. I can imagine there is a whole demographic, of kids wondering why some old, fat guy named Adam Sandler gets to star in 2-3 crappy previews of movies they definitely aren’t going to see every year. These are the very men who shaped the magnificent, god-like sculpture that is my sense of humor. They were men of sarcastic, immature, slapstick genius. I say this because people like Adam Sandler, David Spade and the late Chris Farley were the front men for one of the several golden ages in SNL’s illustrious history (and actually, to be fair, the age of Will Farrell a few years later was pretty great, too). Not that there weren’t any, it’s just that I was like 10 at the time and they seem like a distant memory to me-and I’m pretty old, so if I barely remember them, then most people reading this probably don’t even know what SNL is. And there are so many appearances by former Saturday Night Live cast members that the movie begins to look like a benefit for the SNL Pension Fund.Remember those last golden days of SNL? Yea, I don’t either. Geils Band actually performs during the '80s-themed party that serves, just barely, as a finale. Director Dennis Dugan, a longtime Sandler enabler, lines up the episodes competently but without anything more than a rudimentary sense of structure.Īdding to the grab-bag feel are a large number of cameos: Shaquille O'Neal and Steve Buscemi take minor roles, and Twilight werewolf Taylor Lautner flexes and flares as a shirtless frat boy who leads his fellow meatheads in clashes with the older guys. Even more than the first one, Grown Ups 2 is a series of riffs, skits and sight gags, barely integrated into anything resembling continuity. To call these plot points would be to overstate their importance. And two teenage offspring ponder their first dates. ![]() Marcus, meanwhile, meets the son he didn't know he'd fathered, who turns out to be large and threatening. ![]() Eric is spending too much time with his mother (Georgia Engel, still riffing on her Mary Tyler Moore Show role as Ted Baxter's naive girlfriend). ![]() Roxanne wants to have a fourth child, but Lenny is reluctant. Sandler is Lenny, a Hollywood agent who's now relocated to the small Massachusetts town of his youth, supposedly because it's a more wholesome place for the three kids he's raising with wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek).Īlso living there are Marcus (David Spade), a single man with odd taste in women, and two couples: Kurt and Deanne (Chris Rock and Maya Rudolph) and Eric and Sally (Kevin James and Maria Bello), who have multiple children - although not the exact same lineups they had previously. Rob Schneider couldn't make it to the set for the second installment, it seems, but the other principals play the same roles as before. It's a fitting introduction to the movie's tone. Indeed the story opens with a sequence in which a large male deer urinates copiously on not one but two of the characters. That means some creepy sexual insinuations, if not so many as the first time.īut excreta and flatulence are the movie's two true fixations (with projectile vomiting running a strong third). Like its predecessor, this is a vehicle for Adam Sandler, his pals and whatever they think they can get away with. The genre has become less knowing since then, so the follow-up to 2010's Grown Ups is named simply Grown Ups 2. Two decades ago, when stupid Hollywood comedies were relatively smart, they lampooned their own sequelitis with titles like Hot Shots! Part Deux. With: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive content, language and some male rear nudity ![]()
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