Saturday, March 12, 2011

Grown Ups [2010]

Plot: In 1978, five 12-year-olds win a CYO basketball championship. Thirty years later, they gather with their families for their coach's funeral and a weekend at a house on a lake where they used to party. By now, each is a grownup with problems and challenges: Marcus is alone and drinks too much. Rob, with three daughters he rarely sees, is always deeply in love until he turns on his next ex-wife. Eric is overweight and out of work. Kurt is a househusband, henpecked by wife and mother-in-law. Lenny is a successful Hollywood agent married to a fashion designer; their kids take privilege for granted. Can the outdoors help these grownups rediscover connections or is this chaos in the making? 

Just finished watching this and I'd have to say it was OK and nothing really hilarious like Adam Sandler's older movies.

It starts off pretty slow and not funny at all but there are moments when one of the jokes will make you chuckle but not really think about it twice. The pretty corny jokes go on pretty much the whole movie and you seem to say to yourself why the fuck am I watching this right now and then one good funny joke appears and it seems to just get you by to the next one. They seemed to make way to many jokes which really got old and pretty quickly might I add.

The story is not really a bad one and in my opinion could have been told better but it was pretty predictable at times as Adam Sandler's newer movies are. There are some pretty gross moments with Rob Schneider and his movie wife and the old gradma with her bunions, which will make you say ahhh what the fuck.

Overall Grown Ups is a movie you watch once and never really want to watch again, probably a good movie to watch with a girlfriend or fiance/wife. Not really a waste of time but somewhere in between, I could have done something better with my time and well some of the jokes were pretty funny.


Rate: 5/10

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