Surprisingly funny!

Rating: 7/10 (9 February 2012)

I found this film infectiously funny and entertaining. Adam Sandler can be a bit hit & miss for me but here he is perfect, as is the lovely Jennifer Aniston, starting out as his homely lab assistant and then turning out all glammed up and as beautiful as we all know that she can be.
Most enticing though, is model Brooklyn Decker, who is ravishing in every scene that she is in and soon is Danny McCabee's (Sandler) younger than he girlfriend. Danny is a successful L.A. plastic surgeon but still resorts to shady tactics to bed his dates. This tactic backfires with Palmer (Decker) and so a plan involving Katherine (Aniston) to pose as his soon-to-be divorced wife is hatched. Plus her real, currently fatherless two children (who are great!). The girl pretends to speak a mixture of Cockney and "Royal" English which is very funny and the boy wants to swim with dolphins - but cannot swim.
The inclusion on the holiday of Nicole Kidman almost took things too far but they all bounced off each other well and there are some great scenes with just the three leads. Yes, it is contrived nonsense most of the time, including a ridiculous German-accented pretend husband (who sells sheep online for a living) for Katherine and a holiday to Hawaii. But this mixture of exotic locations, fun, slight sauciness and good-fun banter (plus some swim-suited glamour) make for a heady mix of great entertainment. I almost want to see it again.....