Grown Ups 2 (2013)

This is actually a pretty good movie. The plot makes sense, the jokes are kinda good to, but the one problem is the actors. Every Adam Sandler Movie has almost the same Actors in it. (Examples: Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, etc.) But Overall, the movie is great.

This movie didn't have a story at all.All the movie had was fun,wildness,etc.The first part of Grown Ups was at least better than this.Surely disappointed with this one.The 3/10 is just for the fun and the comedy nothing else.I don't how they make movies like this with such confidence that the people would like it.The fun part was good but at least they should understand that the audience expects a story.

Please don't take the title of this review to be hyperbole. This really is the worst film I've ever seen. I watched it for my comedy review podcast, One Good Thing. We try to find redeeming qualities in terrible movies. Battlefield Earth, Lesbian Vampire Killers, Bucky Larson, all seemed terrible. Grown Ups 2 has forced me to re- evaluate my standards of awful. I came here to try to understand. I read the positive reviews in an attempt to understand why someone would like this. The juvenile humour, the paper-thin characterisation, the painfully awkward editing, how could anyone enjoy this and not feel annoyed for having been sold it. The whole point of my podcast is to be an antithesis to all the people who watch Nolan movies and high concept thrillers and complain about minor details that apparently "ruined" the movie. It was an attempt to re-frame film criticism in a positive way. This film was our toughest challenge. Tomorrow I need to get on Mic and figure out why it's a good thing that this movie did so well at the box office and why so many people loved it. And for the first time since we started this podcast, ten months ago, I feel that we shall fail.

Following the mild success of the first instalment, Grown Ups 2, in my opinion, flopped for a number of reasons. One such reason is the fact that the humour that was demonstrated in the film was repetitive and overall quite bland. It almost felt like the director tried too hard to make the audience laugh, which has never worked in any film ever. The director may have been going for a quite childlike sense of humour in contrast to the adult figures however as this was also the theme in the first film it has lost its charm. I may be comparing it too much to the first film however this comparison is essential as a sequel is meant to add a new light to the feel of the original film. This film did not and in my opinion I feel like it was banking on the success of the original in order to propel it into a state of sufficient box office success which in a way it did, as fans of Adam Sandler's work would be flocking to the cinema in order to see it.On the other hand I enjoyed the plot, despite the linear nature, and found it satisfying how each individual strand connected in a penultimate fashion, with it all coming together at the 80s party. I particularly liked Chris Rock's character as he, despite losing most of the charm of the original personality, still retained part of what made his character particularly appealing.CloudOMatic