With a cast of literally hundreds (Sandler must have every Hollywood notable in his smartphone directory) it’s impossible to detail each brief scene of these guys attempting to reclaim their youth, their manhood or both-as is the case with the naked cliff dive that results after they are challenged by a group of college thugs led by Taylor Lautner. After the deer urinates and ransacks the house, the family is awake, partly dressed, and not quite ready for what the next twenty-four hours will throw at them. Embracing small town life, his young daughter Becky (Alexys Sanchez) left the front door of their mansion open so animals could come visit. This single day-in-the-life of the foursome begins with Lenny awoken by a deer sniffing at the side of his bed. Lenny’s life-changing move was based on a desire to be closer to his buddies Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock) and Marcus (David Spade) who serve as the clowns that often surround the characters Sandler plays in his films. Reprising his role as Lenny, he is the father of three children and the husband to Roxanne (Salma Hayek)-a woman whose intelligence and beauty confirms the backstory that her husband must have made some good money in Hollywood before returning to his California hometown. This movie’s plot, four middle-aged men who want to relive the glory days, becomes flotsam and jetsam tossed down the drain to make way for an endless lather of frenetic slapstick setups featuring grown men receiving impacts to the crotch, diving naked from a cliff and partying like it’s 1989.Īs usual Sandler is the semi-sensible pack leader of the group. Sandler has done well with the very same tactic by repeating a well-honed template in virtually all of the movies produced by his company.įor starters, don’t worry if you haven’t seen the first Grown Ups. Marketing mythology says the person who came up with the idea of adding that third word-“repeat”-to the instructions on a shampoo bottle nearly doubled the sales of their company’s product. It’s an idiom I can see perfectly framed and hung above the office door at Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions.
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