Grown Ups 2 Reviews
Top CriticThis is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Friendship, family and breasts: Sometimes that's all you need.
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| Original Score: B
When Taylor Lautner is the funniest thing in a movie starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, we're in trouble.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
The fact that some moments are genuinely laugh-out-loud funny almost makes the whole endeavor sadder.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
The movie lurches from one gross-out scene to another, flipping the bird at continuity and logic. It honestly seems as if Sandler and his team descended on a random suburb, halfheartedly improvising and moving on when they got bored.
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| Original Score: 0.5/4
[The] lazy, scattershot and anything-but-mature sequel to the leaden Grown-Ups.
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| Original Score: 1/4
In certain ways, Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy.
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| Original Score: B
Apparently the world demanded another family-friendly version of "The Hangover," one that combined scatological comedy with smarmy sentimentality.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Nobody escapes untainted by the foul stench of Grown Ups 2.
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| Original Score: 1/4
For all its warm and fuzzy notions of family and community, Grown Ups 2, directed by longtime Sandler cohort Dennis Dugan, has a desperate reliance on nasty jokes about pee, poo and -- with surprising frequency -- gay panic.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Grown Ups 2 looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Adam Sandler scrapes the bottom of the barrel -- and then he pukes into it -- with Grown Ups 2...
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| Original Score: 0/4
It's hard to imagine another comedy coming along this year that is this abrasive and free of laughs. It's like everyone involved intentionally tried to create a horrible movie.
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| Original Score: 1/5
The temptation arises to say something nice about "Grown Ups 2" just because it doesn't cause injury. But no, it's a bad movie, just old-school bad, the kind that's merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats.
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| Original Score: 1/4
In the first five minutes, a deer walks into the star's bedroom and urinates on his face. It's all downhill from there.
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| Original Score: 1/5
None of the stars are trying very hard, and so the most memorable presences are the cameos: If nothing else, Grown Ups 2 will go down as the only film in history to find room for Steve Buscemi alongside "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Like most Adam Sandler movies, it's exactly like most Adam Sandler movies.
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| Original Score: 2/5
A few decent one-liners notwithstanding, the movie comes off as willfully uninspired ...
Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, "Grown Ups 2" is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making "Ow! My Balls!" seem like a plausible future project.
Yes, it's time for another visit to the Adam Sandler Death-of-Cinema Fun Factory, the big-screen version of a terrible sitcom where laugh tracks are replaced by the co-stars chuckling at their own awful material.
Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a catalog of tossed-out material.
