Sandler's Best In Years

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2015)

An awful lot of Adam Sandler films are stupid, unfunny, poorly written and forgettable, but every now and then comes a film featuring Sandler that works, and Just Go With It is that film. It's similar to my favourite comedy Easy A in the way that's there an overwhelming sense of fun and joy, but Just Go With It adds in a silly nature but it's a tolerable and fitting silly nature, whisking along it's quirky characters into nutty situations. In this romantic comedy, Sandler is Danny, an unlucky in love plastic surgeon who finds "the one", but after a lie backfires, he must recruit his loyal assistant Katherine (Anniston) to play his ex-wife in order to win his love's heart, all this catastrophic lying ends Danny, Katherine and her kids in Hawaii, where the lengths we go for love is shown. Whilst the performances are nothing groundbreaking like the ones in Crazy, Stupid, Love, the cast here are clearly having fun, and Adam Sandler doesn't phone it in, he's actually great. Dennis Dugan isn't a great director but this time around he proves he can do good, and it shows through the characters connecting and playing off on one another. Top class comedy, highly recommended.