"Just Go with It"...or not.

Rating: 4/10 (11 February 2011)

I wish that I could live in movies. Everything would be so much easier. Sure I would have problems, but they would all be solved in two hours our less. I would find a beautiful woman and of course there would be some discourse then I would try to deceive her through a series of lies. She would catch me in these lies and we would either a) make up and get back together or b) I find my true love, who was my "Plain Jane" friend all along. Regardless we would live happily ever after... until the sequel where we have kids and something zany would bound to happen.
"Just Go with It" is the newest comedy starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston. Sandler plays Danny, an immature, unprofessional plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He had his heart broken years ago right before his wedding. He called the wedding off; now single, he wears his wedding band to the bars. Here he finds attractive women and convinces them that he is in an awful marriage. The random women feel sorry for him then automatically sleep with him (note to self: buy a wedding band today). He does this for 23 years; think about it - 23 years of one-night stands.
Danny finally meets the girl of his dreams, Palmer (played by Brooklyn Decker), at a party. She is a perfect "10" and she sleeps with him without even seeing his phony wedding band (note to self: go to more parties). When they awake, she finds his wedding band and thinks he is married. Palmer is 23 years old. This means when Danny started sleeping with random women, Palmer was in diapers. Does any one else find that creepy?
Since Danny has deep feelings for this particular one-night stand, he starts lying to her in order to keep her. His office assistant, Katherine (Played by Aniston) helps him in the lie by pretending to be Danny's soon-to-be ex-wife. Palmer wants to meet Danny's future ex-wife because of some issues she had with her own parents' divorce. They all meet at a restaurant where they don't talk about the divorce; it's frankly five minutes of Danny and Katherine insulting each other about their phony marriage that is about to end in a phony divorce.
The interaction between the three is almost done when Katherine receives a call from her kids and now Palmer wants to meet Danny's phony kids. Now we have to drag two kids into this web of lies. This storyline added some much needed fresh talent. The young actress, Bailee Madison who plays the daughter, did a wonderful job of pulling the spotlight onto herself since Aniston and Sandler weren't doing much to move out of their own comfort zone.
One lie leads to the next and they all end up in Hawaii. While on an impromptu family vacation with Danny, his girlfriend, his phony soon-to-be ex-wife, her phony soon-to-be husband (played by Nick Swardson) and the phony kids, the headache is getting bigger and the jokes are falling flatter. Through rampant coincidence the phony couple meets Katherine's old sorority sister and her husband (played by Nicole Kidman and Dave Matthews). Now we are presented a whole new lie and not a lot of fresh jokes to make it worth our time.
The entire story snowballs up to the part that the audience saw coming from about 15 minutes into the film. Danny soon finds who he should really be with; it shouldn't be much of a surprise if you have been following along.
Should you see this movie? No, it's just another Sandler film. If you are a die-hard Sandler fan you will probably see it regardless. He likes to find one joke and hold onto it through the film. Let it go, man; just because you talk in a funny voice doesn't mean you should do it all the time.