Grown Ups 2
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+Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
What critics thought
One of the most comprehensively panned wide-release comedies in recent memory, with critics nearly unanimous in calling it plotless, lazy, and aggressively unfunny — a string of gross-out gags that even fans of lowbrow humor found hard to defend. The rare dissenter, like Owen Gleiberman, saw something classically Sandlerian in its anarchic infantilism, but that reading was very much the outlier. Paying audiences were considerably more forgiving than critics, though the film has since become something of a cultural artifact for its sheer, studied badness.
“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.”
Andrew Barker·Variety
“Adam Sandler scrapes the bottom of the barrel—and then he pukes into it—with Grown Ups 2, a lazily cribbed-together swamp of pointless and unfunny sketches that makes 2010's Grown Ups look like Citizen Kane.”
Linda Barnard·Toronto Star
“Largely free of Sandler's usual schmaltz and lame romance, it's pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that's fascinating without ever being all that funny.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·The A.V. Club
“In certain ways, Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy.”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
“Grown Ups 2 isn't merely mindless. At times it seems to actually drain IQ points from its viewers while wasting a talented cast of "Saturday Night Live" alums, who are all capable of being much smarter and so much funnier.”
Stephanie Merry·The Washington Post
Parents guide
- Violence
- mild
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- mild
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- none
Genres
Comedy
Cast & Crew
Dennis DuganDirector
Adam SandlerLenny Feder
Kevin JamesEric Lamonsoff
Chris RockKurt McKenzie
David SpadeMarcus Higgins
Salma Hayek PinaultRoxanne Chase-Feder
Maya RudolphDeanne McKenzie
Maria BelloSally Lamonsoff
Nick SwardsonNick
Steve BuscemiWiley
Colin QuinnDickie Bailey
Tim MeadowsMalcom
Shaquille O'NealOfficer Fluzoo
Rupert Gregson-WilliamsComposer
Tim HerlihyWriterAdam SandlerWriter
Fred WolfWriter
Theo van de SandeCinematographyGrown Ups 2
Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
What critics thought
One of the most comprehensively panned wide-release comedies in recent memory, with critics nearly unanimous in calling it plotless, lazy, and aggressively unfunny — a string of gross-out gags that even fans of lowbrow humor found hard to defend. The rare dissenter, like Owen Gleiberman, saw something classically Sandlerian in its anarchic infantilism, but that reading was very much the outlier. Paying audiences were considerably more forgiving than critics, though the film has since become something of a cultural artifact for its sheer, studied badness.
“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.”
Andrew Barker·Variety
“Adam Sandler scrapes the bottom of the barrel—and then he pukes into it—with Grown Ups 2, a lazily cribbed-together swamp of pointless and unfunny sketches that makes 2010's Grown Ups look like Citizen Kane.”
Linda Barnard·Toronto Star
“Largely free of Sandler's usual schmaltz and lame romance, it's pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that's fascinating without ever being all that funny.”
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky·The A.V. Club
“In certain ways, Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy.”
Owen Gleiberman·Entertainment Weekly
“Grown Ups 2 isn't merely mindless. At times it seems to actually drain IQ points from its viewers while wasting a talented cast of "Saturday Night Live" alums, who are all capable of being much smarter and so much funnier.”
Stephanie Merry·The Washington Post
Parents guide
- Violence
- mild
- Sex
- mild
- Profanity
- mild
- Substances
- mild
- Intensity
- none
Genres
Comedy
Cast & Crew
Dennis DuganDirectorAdam SandlerLenny FederKevin JamesEric LamonsoffChris RockKurt McKenzieDavid SpadeMarcus HigginsSalma Hayek PinaultRoxanne Chase-FederMaya RudolphDeanne McKenzieMaria BelloSally LamonsoffNick SwardsonNickSteve BuscemiWileyColin QuinnDickie BaileyTim MeadowsMalcomShaquille O'NealOfficer FluzooRupert Gregson-WilliamsComposerTim HerlihyWriterAdam SandlerWriterFred WolfWriterTheo van de SandeCinematographyRent & Buy
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