Adam Sandler brings several comedians under one roof for both a vacation and a reunion.
Years ago, five friends (Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade) won a basketball championship that made their coach proud. But when the coach dies, the five reunite after many years to remember the good times and learn a message of how to change their lives.
So was the intention, but unfortunately, the execution did not deliver.
This should have been a simple comedy about men getting back to being kids again, and it isn’t. Its five guys with their wives and children with so much going on that you have practically zero story, little to no lesson and so many sub plots that you’d almost assume that they were the plot.
Far too many characters were included in this film, especially the children. The scripts doesn’t pay enough attention to them or the parents, it’s just to the comedic situations they’re involved in. It’s just a series of comedy sketches threaded together by the same location. Nothing more, nothing less.
You won’t even feel like this film has a plot until the very end. There’s no build-up to what this movie was supposed to be about, no story-pacing, barely even a good look at half of our main characters.
Grown Ups is fun, but its mindless fun. Its one high note is that the comedic styles of these actors hold together well and don’t overshadow one another. If they could have come together on such a script, maybe the movie would have been salvageable.
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