No...don't go with it

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2011)

Adam Sandler movies are hit or miss; they're either pretty damn funny or they're not very funny at all (saving for his attempts to do some serious stuff here and there). This one kind of fell flat. Sandler is a doc who gets cruelly dumped on his wedding day by his superficial bride to be and decides the only way to heal his broken heart is to become a superficial jackass himself, by bedding women who are much too young and pretty to ever really give a guy like that a second look, much less time in the sack. You're supposed to sympathize with him because he WAS treated unfairly by the gal he was about to marry but you just can't. He's too snarky and self serving so it's hard to actually root for him. He hatches a plan to use his assistant, played by Jennifer Aniston, to bag a young supermodel chick (Brooklyn Decker) who's so far out of his league it's laughable. Unfortunately, Aniston is back on screen again portraying the exact same "hey, look at me! I'm a cool, laid back chick with a breezy attitude towards life so you should just love me" Rachel-type character that she's played in just about every movie she's ever been in (with the exception of the wonderfully acted "The Good Girl"). Nick Swardson is along for the ride as Sandler's dippy friend who provides a few laughs along the way but little else and the young actors who portray Aniston's kids are kind of grating after a short while. Nicole Kidman has a small role as Aniston's nemesis from previous years gone by, but her character is so two-dimensional and silly that it's obvious she's brought in only to be used as a filler in a dumb back story involving Aniston's long suffering character Katherine's past. The highlight of this story is the stunning Hawaiian scenery but that's all. This isn't the worst film I've ever seen but it's certainly one of the worst Adam Sandler movies I've had to sit through. He can be absolutely hilarious (Anger Management, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, etc.) but this one kind of bites.