Not a good romantic comedy, but it is funny and romantic

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2011)

"Just Go with It" has Adam Sandler trying his hand at his ladies man shtick rather than his immature man-child routine. The result is a somewhat mature (not to be confused with intelligent) romantic comedy, rather than a zany screwball comedy. I like most romantic comedies no matter how pedantic and unoriginal they may be as long as they are funny and romantic too. And this one is all of the above.
Danny (Adam Sandler) has long since discovered that a wedding ring and a sob story can go a long way towards picking up women. But then he meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) and she's supposed to be different. We can't actually tell why she's more special than the others, they just have to tell us that since subtlety is not a strong point here. The best part about Decker, the 20-something model, is that she gets showed up by Jennifer Aniston, who in turn, gets half-showed up by Nicole Kidman. There's something almost poetic about Hollywood's universe inadvertently becoming backwards.
"Just Go with It" is as predictable as they get and far from original but it kept me amused and Sandler's light humour kept me smiling. It certainly isn't a good romantic comedy (which, believe it or not, does exist), but it was exactly as I expected it to be. I enjoyed it, but then again I like Jennifer Aniston and I think Adam Sandler is funny.