Grown Ups featured Adam Sandler and the usual suspects in a movie which had some amusement value in the context of a loose narrative about bringing together childhood friends for a particular event. Three years later, a sequel features many of the same cast in a plot less series of character threads and vignettes, much of which is childish, crude, slapstick, halfwitted, lazy, and occasionally sentimental.
Make no mistake, this is not a very good film. But I wouldn't be fair if I didn't make three points: One, Sandler makes many films where his character is profoundly annoying (I mean fingernails scraping down blackboard annoying). Here his character is likable.
Two, this film doesn't have as much outright cruelty in the humour as its predecessor.
And, three, I hate to admit it, but it made me (and the cinema audience) laugh quite a bit.
Make no mistake, this is not a very good film. But I wouldn't be fair if I didn't make three points: One, Sandler makes many films where his character is profoundly annoying (I mean fingernails scraping down blackboard annoying). Here his character is likable.
Two, this film doesn't have as much outright cruelty in the humour as its predecessor.
And, three, I hate to admit it, but it made me (and the cinema audience) laugh quite a bit.