Grown Ups

Dennis Dugan made up for his post-Zohan reputation with this one. I was actually almost afraid to go see this movie. I was that disgusted with Sandler in Zohan! Fortunately, I was quite entertained by Grown Ups. I don't even know why... I mean, they only did one thing... they simply tossed a bunch of (fairly) successful actors and lakes together and said "do something funny in there". Maybe Mr. Dugan wasn't even there, so it turned out well beyond expectations. 3.5 stars. (12/02/2011)

It’s a corny comparison, but even Sandler has attempted his version of The Expendables and the result is a solid collection of comedians per square foot on the film set, and it's clear that everyone enjoyed the shoot to no end. There are no annoying family values, and in fact, the guys are old enough to mentor the little kids, but all the fart and gerontophile jokes are painfully torturous. You'll also soon realize that for this bunch the film is relatively shallow in terms of being funny. Still, it’s pretty good and everyone except Schneider acts and the Salma & Maria duo is absolutely perfect :-) (07/10/2010)

The sequel definitely got me more, but even in this first part, I had a feeling that even though I had never seen these characters, they were still familiar to me, so it's not difficult for me to laugh with and at them. It's simply because these actors play together quite often, so you get used to them. I love Sandler's humor and I easily accept his final morals. Keep it up. (24/03/2014)

Grown Ups is another comedy with a “script”. Let’s line up today’s most popular comedians and let them improvise and have fun. Something will surely come out of it, something that will make more than a hundred million dollars in U.S. cinemas alone and we’ll all be happy. The movie has a poor plot and makes poor use of the individual actors’ uniqueness, and the most valuable character actor of the entire film, Steve Buscemi, plays the biggest idiot here. Thanks, but no thanks. (02/10/2010)

Constant, overly vulgar insults that aren't even remotely funny, cheap situational humor, unsympathetic jerks in the lead roles, a face buried in poo several times (I don't even want to guess whose it was)... Well, that was quite the comedy. More like a series of sketches. Not funny at all. I give a star for Steve Buscemi in the water park and Salma Hayek throwing frogs. And that’s it. (23/11/2012)