Just Go With It (2011)

Rating: 3/10 (18 August 2011)

Very lazy rom-com farce with Sandler doing a very slightly grown-up take on his unfunny, charmless man-child character, here realising his assistant is the love of his life, not the 23 year old hottie he's about to marry. Out of the cast, only Aniston impresses with decent comic timing, with many others simply making fools of themselves or proving that their talents should stay on swimsuit calenders rather than the movie screen. Dave Matthews turns up for an unknown reason, as does Kidman (slumming it but apparently having fun) and some Police songs are bastardised into remixes, although despite the painful mugging there are a couple of more subtle visual jokes that suggest the filmmakers do actually have some knowledge of cinema history, including a La Dolce Vita waterfall shot.