Grown Ups

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. (11/23/2012)

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. (10/01/2010)

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. (02/12/2011)

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. (03/24/2014)

Big disappointment for me, and not even my favourite Adam Sandler could improve it. The story makes no sense, it doesn’t have any unexpected twists or a central premise for the screenwriter to draw on for further ideas, it felt as if the actors had bought a couple of kegs of beer, set off on a children's adventure and filmed it all on camera. It's nothing but madness that knows no bounds, but unfortunately it lacks some of that good and improvised humour, and without it, any Sandler comedy immediately loses its charm. (10/13/2011)