Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 99
While it's almost certainly the movie event of the year for filmgoers passionate about deer urine humor, Grown Ups 2 will bore, annoy, and disgust audiences of nearly every other persuasion.
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 26
While it's almost certainly the movie event of the year for filmgoers passionate about deer urine humor, Grown Ups 2 will bore, annoy, and disgust audiences of nearly every other persuasion.
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Movie Info
The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) 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. (c) Sony
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Cast
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Adam Sandler
Lenny Feder -
Kevin James
Eric Lamonsoff -
Chris Rock
Kurt McKenzie -
David Spade
Marcus Higgins -
Salma Hayek Pinault
Roxanne Chase-Feder -
Maya Rudolph
Deanne McKenzie -
Maria Bello
Sally Lamonsoff -
Nick Swardson
Nick -
Steve Buscemi
Wiley -
Colin Quinn
Dickie Bailey -
Tim Meadows
Malcolm -
Jon Lovitz
Squats Fitness Janit... -
Shaquille O'Neal
Officer Fluzoo -
Alexander Ludwig
Braden -
Georgia Engel
Mrs. Lamonsoff -
Peter Dante
Officer Dante -
Oliver Hudson
Kyle -
Allen Covert
Hippie Teacher -
Steve Austin
Tommy Cavanaugh -
Milo Ventimiglia
Frat Boy Milo -
Jake Goldberg
Greg Feder -
Cameron Boyce
Keithie Feder -
Alexys Nycole Sanche...
Becky Feder -
Ada-Nicole Sanger
Donna Lamonsoff -
Frank Gingerich
Bean Lamonsoff -
Morgan Gingerich
Bean Lamonsoff -
Nadji Jeter
Andre McKenzie -
China Anne McClain
Charlotte McKenzie -
Kaleo Elam
Ronny McKenzie -
Cheri Oteri
Penny -
Ellen Cleghorne
Mary Fluzoo -
April Rose Pengilly
Hot Dance Teacher -
Dan Patrick
Gym Teacher -
Ebony Jo-Ann
Mama Ronzoni -
Halston Sage
Nancy Arbuckle -
Norm Crosby
Kmart Employee -
Melanie Hutsell
Kmart Mother -
Dennis Dugan
Dr. Larry -
Jonathan Loughran
Robideaux -
Jackie Sandler
Jackie Tardio -
Sadie Sandler
Sadie Tardio -
Sunny Sandler
Sunny Tardio -
Chris Berman
The Great Renaldo -
Michael R. Kay
Coach Romey -
Kevin Grady
Muzby -
Kris Murrell
Beefcake Kitty -
Patty Ross
Pizza Delivery Woman -
Alyson Michalka
Bikini Girl Savannah -
Paulina Gretzky
Bikini Girl Daisy -
Kamil McFadden
Bumpty -
Alex Poncio
Duffy -
Andy Samberg
Male Cheerleader -
Jorma Taccone
Male Cheerleader -
Bobby Moynihan
Male Cheerleader -
Akiva Schaffer
Male Cheerleader -
Taran Killam
Male Cheerleader -
Paul Brittain
Male Cheerleader -
Erin Heatherton
Ginger (Head Cheerle... -
Patrick Schwarzenegg...
Frat Boy -
David Henrie
Frat Boy -
Chris Titone
Frat Boy -
Jared Sandler
Frat Boy -
Jimmy Tatro
Frat Boy -
Brad Grunberg
Mailman -
Valerie Gervickas
Nurse -
Lisa Garcia
Soap Opera/Sexy Twin -
Lizet Garcia
Soap Opera/Sexy Twin -
Tanya Akim
Ice Cream House Work... -
Robert Harvey
Party Guest -
Billy Concha
Assistant Football C... -
Celeste Capasso
High School Janitor -
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Sandler's films have always been stupid, but the early stuff is pretty harmless; here the jokes almost always come at the expense of someone else, the kind of needless bullying one expects of a YouTube comment section.
These movies are about four friends -- played by comedians -- remembering what it was like to be young. How much better for an audience would it be if they remembered what it was like to make comedy?
Grown Ups 2 delivers exactly what it's been advertising in trailers and on talk shows: grubby low-comic escapism.
This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance.
It makes the first movie look like The Maltese Falcon.
A movie of fools, by fools, for fools.
[A] slothful, indulgent sequel that sees a once-great screen comedian hit self-inflicted Sandlergeddon.
Rob Schneider, the butt of many jokes in the first Grown-Ups, is nowhere to be seen. Salma Hayek, as Lenny's wife, looks understandably tense and irritable throughout.
The single consistent throughline Grown Ups 2 seems to have, in fact, is its bigotry.
[A] witless, clueless and utterly pointless sequel to a comedy that pulled in boatloads of cash, but was beloved by absolutely no one.
The only good news is that the five friends in the original film have been whittled down to four.
Lacking anything remotely resembling a conventional story, this ramshackle contraption is just a loosely connected collection of lame sketches taking place over the course of one very long day.
Transgender jokes, fat jokes (always James, happy to look stupid), homeliness jokes, mama's boy jokes -- the picture was made by people who like to put down people, and it was made for people who like to tease others or watch others be insulted.
Dreadful.
Directing once again is schlock auteur Dennis Dugan, and the result is an $80 million YouTube video.
"Grown Ups 2" takes its rightful place in the pantheon of terrible films, becoming just another one to avoid like your life depended on it.
Grown Ups 2 is the culmination and epitome of laziness not just for Sandler, his friends, or director Dennis Dugan, but comedy as a genre.
The leads dampen the delivery with a noticeable lack of energy. It's telling when the most charismatic comedic performance comes from Taylor Lautner...
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.
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.
There was nothing remotely notable about 2010's Grown Ups, and now we have a sequel that's even lazier.
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.
As disposable and forgettable as its 2010 predecessor...
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.
No human being possesses the imaginative power to sufficiently lower his or her expectations to anticipate the sheer laziness of this putrid ensemble comedy.
Audience Reviews for Grown Ups 2
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The plot is errr...geez I dunno really, there isn't a plot, this film is virtually one skit after another much like SNL. We are still following Sandler's character and his hectic family life, alongside him we are also still following the lives of his best friends too...and that's it. The only thing is there isn't really any point to what happens throughout, its just one set up for a silly childish joke, then on to the next silly childish set up.
I guess this wouldn't be too bad if the jokes were funny, you look at classic spoof films like 'Naked Gun' or 'Airplane' and they are merely a collection of visual gag set ups. This film is the same accept the gags are tired, unoriginal and infantile, basically your standard toilet and sexual functions humour.
Believe it or not but I actually found this sequel slightly enjoyable in places and better than the first, yep that's right. The main reason for this was the quite horrendously cringe worthy performance by Taylor Lautner and his snobby frat pack which was pure parody excellence. The other reason was the party finale where everybody dresses up in fancy dress, yet they all looked really good haha. Seriously they just looked really good, especially the guy as Tom Cruise from 'Risky Business'. Plus I must also give kudos for the big punch up in the finale which is completely farcical but a definite guilty pleasure in terms of sheer lunacy.
I guess it gives you what you pay for, its not like anyone won't know what they're getting themselves into when they go to see this. You see an Adam Sandler film for certain reasons and this film delivers those reasons. So on one level it does its job, the problem is, it is pure pointless garbage in all honesty. The fart and belch gags with James were the worst thing in this film, I mean really Kevin...I thought you were a better comedian than that.
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- Lenny Feder: Open the window.
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- Frat Boy: I'm Frat Boy Milo and this is Frat Boy Zach.
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Foreign Titles
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