Seriously, you have to just go with it.

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2011)

Like a lot of Adam Sandler comedies, Just Go With It manages to be very funny without actually being all that good. With a gossamer thin premise that even the film itself admits doesn't withstand any scrutiny, this movie throws more jokes at you in 30 seconds than many alleged comedies will have in 10 minutes and there are far more hits than misses. It's sort of like a good episode of Family Guy that just overwhelms you with silliness and naughtiness, as opposed to a bad episode of Family Guy where you're struck by how empty and arbitrary it all is.
Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) is a plastic surgeon who got his heart broken by his fiancée as a young man, only to discover that wearing a wedding ring is like catnip to a certain breed of female. With a gold band as his ultimate wingman, Danny has been boinking and running for 20 years. Now, he thinks he's fallen in genuine love with Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a 23 year old school teacher with the mind of an angel and a body made for sin. But when she finds Danny's ring, he can't exactly tell her he's been a deceitful pig with so many women. That's when Kathryn Murphy (Jennifer Aniston), his best friend and office assistant ,comes up with the idea of Danny inventing a fake wife he's divorcing as an explanation.
But when Palmer demands to meet his wife, Danny has to rope Kathryn into playing the part. Then another lie gets her two kids (Bailee Madison and Griffin Gluck) involved, more deceit sends then all to Hawaii with Danny's horny dork of a cousin (Nick Swardson) in tow and then some additional deceit results in Kathryn needing Danny to pose as her husband. Would you be surprised to learn that playing husband and wife gradually makes Danny and Kathryn realize how much they care about each other, only for Palmer to then finally ask Danny to marry her? I didn't think so, though you might be surprised at the relatively unclichéd way it all turns out.
Let me be frank. Does this story make you believe that a middle-aged guy who looks like Adam Sandler and a 20something girl who looks like Brooklyn Decker would fall in love? No. Does it convince you that Danny and Kathryn are soulmates? Not really. Does anything here resemble stuff that could happen in real life. Hardly.
I don't think any of that matters because Just Go With It is pretty gosh darn funny. From nut shots and butt humor to ridiculous accents and plastic surgery sight gags to dead pan kids and somebody dropping the bionic elbow on a sick sheep, this film throws everything in the comedy kitchen at you, including a sink full of old women in grass skirts and coconut shell brassieres. If you've ever enjoyed a Sandler comedy, you'll probably laugh your behind off at this one even though Sandler is playing a relative adult who doesn't have a severe emotional or psychological problem. Jennifer Aniston also proves that her years on Friends weren't a fluke and holds her own on screen. She also demonstrates all the tabloid stories about her are bunk because there's no way the woman from those articles would have the self-confidence to go bikini vs. bikini against the amazingly proportioned Decker.
This is a movie where its title is also the advice you have to give to any potential viewer. If you get wrapped up in everything that's not right with this film, you'll have a terrible time. But if you just go with it, you'll have a lot of fun.