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Another year, another Adam Sandler movie. The man is prolific and fairly consistent. Once again he teams up with director Dennis Dugan (show of hands for anyone who remembers him from the old “Rockford File” series … anyone? No one? Damn.) and the results are pretty rewarding.
The basic story is Sandler is a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who likes to play the field, and then meets this awesome blonde beach babe (Brooklyn Decker) and decides “she’s the one” … and then does everything he can to get close to her. Problem is, she thinks he’s married and getting a divorce from his wife … which he doesn’t have one of. So he turns to his long-time friend and office assistant, Jennifer Aniston to play the part. It’s all kind of predictable from there, really.
Sandler is his usual wise-cracking, laid-back self. He’s found his groove and he plays it well by now. Aniston looks phenomenal - better than…
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What do you do when it’s a long holiday weekend and you’re stuck home working through it? You download movies and watch them while you work. So today I grabbed Adam Sandler’s latest: “Grown Ups”.
The reviews of this one were pretty bad, but I think the critics and movie-goers were looking for something that this film was not. They figured with so many comedians in the cast (Chris Rock, David Spade, etc.) it would be a joke-fest. It wasn’t that kind of movie at all – it never tried to be – it was more like the Carol Burnett/Alan Alda movie “The Four Seasons” about old friends getting together for vacation and the way life had affected them. Albeit funnier, and with fart jokes.
No, this isn’t a belly-laugh kind of movie. There are some good gags and running gags as well, but the beauty of the movie is the chemistry of the cast and that
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