Grown Ups 2 Reviews
3AW
Adam Sandler's follow-up to one of the most improbable blockbuster comedy hits in film history - Grown Ups took $270m in 2010 - is a similarly plotless, reasonably pleasant, rough-edged comic ramble.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Film Threat
Sandler and his pals are in the enviable position of having the muscle to do their thing for fun and profit.
MediaMikes
Some of the gags are childish but really, isn't that why you go to a movie like this in the first place? I know that's why I do.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Top CriticFriendship, family and breasts: Sometimes that's all you need.
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| Original Score: B
Lyles' Movie Files
Every iota of logic, common decency and college educated critical self within me all but screamed that this film is an insult to my intelligence and an affront to the entire human race and I'd listen if I wasn't so busy laughing.
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| Original Score: 6/10
In certain ways, Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy.
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| Original Score: B
Film School Rejects
All I can say is I didn't DISlike it. It astounded me too much with its nonsense, and it's not nearly as offensive as I'd anticipated. So I have no real issue with it.
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| Original Score: B-
Flicks.co.nz
The leads dampen the delivery with a noticeable lack of energy. It's telling when the most charismatic comedic performance comes from Taylor Lautner...
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| Original Score: 1/5
Flick Filosopher
This is not a movie. This is nothing but Adam Sandler hanging out with his pals and congratulating himself on how awesome he finds himself to be.
Contactmusic.com
There was nothing remotely notable about 2010's Grown Ups, and now we have a sequel that's even lazier.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Daily Telegraph
Somehow, the word 'sequel' doesn't fit: it would be like describing three months of agonising spinal surgery as the sequel to falling off a cliff.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Reel Film Reviews
As disposable and forgettable as its 2010 predecessor...
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| Original Score: 2/4
Birmingham Mail
It's easy to be critical of films which have no aim other than to entertain, but if you're half way to Sandler's juvenile, rather sexist mentality you will find more comedy highlights than you'll be expecting.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Irish Times
No human being possesses the imaginative power to sufficiently lower his or her expectations to anticipate the sheer laziness of this putrid ensemble comedy.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
This Happy Madison remedial-school version of 'This Is 40' is as insane and dumbfounding and worthy of WTF mock-cult status as 'The Room' or 'Manos, Hands of Fate,' even if it did earn $42 million its first weekend.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Total Film
The simplest way to put it is that if you liked the first Grown Ups, you will also like this one: it's an equally shameless, just-as shoddy, no-less depressing sprawl of 'life lessons' and fat gags.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Cinemalogue.com
The script feels aimless and desperate, even by its own aggressively sophomoric standards.
Austin Chronicle
The Land of Lazy can crown a new king because with Grown Ups 2 Adam Sandler has officially nabbed the throne.
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
jackiekcooper.com
Adam Sandler has made some warm and funny movies but this one is a mess from start to finish.
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| Original Score: 4/10
