Full of Devlin comedy

Rating: 3/10 (20 June 2011)

Just Go With It is at times dreadfully boring and extremely unfunny as it approaches the two hour mark and we are still waiting to laugh. It is one of the most selfish, laugh-free comedies I've ever seen barely saved by the beautiful scenery and likable Aniston. But even with those two minor improvements that we see what Just Go With It is really about - cheap laughs and cliché Sandler schtick.
This was based on a Broadway play that later became a 1969, Walter Mathau film called Cactus Flower, that later became a French play, that finally became this. I say this story has its tank run dry as this story is not only not funny but kind of sad. Sandler plays Danny, who called off his wedding day when he heard his wife talking behind his back with her friends.
Going to a bar with his ring on, he attracts a women and tells her a sympathy story leading to them sleeping together. Twenty five years later, he still wears the wedding ring and continues to sleep with loser bimbos to sort of never run the risk of falling in love. This works, until he meets Palmer (Decker), a beautiful women who finds the ring in his jean pocket.
Danny panics and tells lie after lie that he is married, but getting a divorce to his office worker Katherine (Aniston). Lie after lie leads him to fake-fathering Katherine's two bratty kids who he plans to fake kill off later. The "family," Palmer, and Danny's friend all plan to go to Hawaii where more nonsense takes place.
Some scenes, notably the hula contest and the scenes at the kid's playground, go on for way too long and it's nothing but a poorly written joke made to be completely not funny. I guess we're supposed to root for Danny in hopes he'd get the girl, but I find no likable qualities about a womanizing loser who is not the least bit clever or funny. This is yet another movie that could be over if Danny had told Palmer he does sleeps with several women saying he is married and has a bad wife. He could then go on to tell her how she's different in a real passionate way and take her out to a bar and they can get to know each other. That might've made a way better film.
Nicole Kidman shows up in quite possibly the worst role she's ever been offered as Devlin, Katherine's old rival. What a coincidence she is staying at the same hotel in Hawaii as Katherine at the most convenient time when she is all tied up with her "family" issues.
Also in the movie is Nick Swardson who is definitely the worst person in this movie playing a close friend of Danny's sporting one of the worst German accents I've ever heard. Every scene is he is in is too long and not at all funny in any way. Not even good for a bad laugh.
It comes as no surprise Just Go With It is directed by Dennis Dugan who worked on other bad comedies like The Benchwarmers, Big Daddy, and Grown Ups. It seems ever since I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, a decent comedy, Dugan has had nothing but fun placing Sandler in every character possible. Now he is working on Jack & Jill, another comedy that pairs Sandler and Al Pacino together. God help us.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nick Swardson, Dan Patrick, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, and Dave Matthews. Directed by: Dennis Dugan.