Grown Ups 2

Movie of the Week  ( Improved Version)

By Lorenzo Vallente

 

Directed by: Dennis Dugan

Starring: Adam Sandler

             Kevin James

             Chris Rock

             David Spade

 

Plot: What plot? The entire movie is a string of usually funny and jokey scenes strung together. Basically, Lenny Feder and Co. have moved back to their hometown. The entire movie takes place on the last day of school.

 

Review: If you liked the first Grown Ups, you’ll like this too. I find this movie to be a pleasant and good-hearted film, albeit raunchy and gross at the same time. Grown Ups 2 is a more rapid-fire and crazy film than its predecessor. One example of this is a scene where a drug-addicted school bus driver opens a raft in a department store, therefore making it explode and crashing him through many shelves of groceries. Then, the bus driver ties the raft to the top of his school bus while Lenny is driving it. The bus driver then hits a tree, does a backflip and lands on his feet. All in about 10 seconds. Although not deep at all, this is a fun movie that met my expectations and offers many people a chance to escape from their everyday worries for an hour and a half. Surely, film “critics” will hate this movie. I don’t know if they were expecting a tour de force or an artsy, beautiful movie. Nevertheless, Grown Ups 2 will entertain anyone who simply wants to laugh or to kill time in a theater.

 

 

Overall:

8/10

Good movie. Funny, good natured, yet sometimes too over the top and crude.

 

 

PS: In my opinion, The Wolverine was horrible. I was falling asleep the whole movie.