Grown Ups

Plot synopsis:
In 1978, five friends win their junior high basketball championship. During the celebration, their coach "Buzzer" (Blake Clark) encourages them to live their lives in a similar way to how they played the game.30 years later, the five friends have since separated. Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler) is a high powered Hollywood talent agent who is married to Roxanne (Salma Hayek), a fashion designer. Together, they have two sons, Greg and Keith, and one daughter Becky, all of whom have become spoiled, much to Lenny's annoyance. Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James) is now a co-owner of a lawn furniture company (but he says he is just to impress his friends) who is married to Sally (Maria Bello). Together, they have one daughter, Donna and one son Bean, who still breastfeeds despite being four years old, much to Eric's chagrin. Kurt McKenzie (Chris Rock) is a stay at home father who is married to Deanne (Maya Rudolph), the primary breadwinner of the family. Together, they have a son, Andre, and a daughter, Charlotte, while Deanne is pregnant with a third child, and her mother, Ronzoni, lives with them as well. All of them harass Kurt for not being more useful. Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) is a thrice divorced pacifist vegan married to Gloria (Joyce Van Patten), who is 30 years older than him. Marcus Higgins (David Spade) has become a single womanizer.When they learn that their coach has died, they all return to New England with their families for the funeral. Lenny rents the lake house for the 4th of July weekend for his friends to stay at, but Lenny can't stay for the whole weekend because Roxanne has a fashion show in Milan. While at the lake house, Lenny is annoyed that their kids would rather play video games than spend time outdoors, so he and the others force their kids to spend more time outside while at the house.At a local restaurant, Lenny runs into his old nemesis Dickie Bailey (Colin Quinn), who works as a cook there. Dickie is still upset at Lenny because he allegedly had his foot out of bounds when he made the long-ago game winning shot and challenges him and his friends to a rematch, but Lenny declines, declaring it a waste of time. During dinner, the group discusses spreading the coache's ashes in the morning, but Lenny says he can't be there because of Roxanne's fashion show. Roxanne angrily storms off because Lenny painted her negatively. She allows him to spread the ashes, but demands they leave early the following morning.In the morning, the five guys row out to an island to spread the ashes. When Rob is spreading the ashes, he breaks down and tells the guys that he screwed up his previous marriages and that he's nervous about meeting his daughters who are coming. When they get back to the house, they finally meet Rob's daughters, two of them, Jasmine and Amber, who seem too gorgeous to be Rob's, and one, Bridget, who very closely resembles him. To calm his nerves, the five guys play a game called "Arrow Roulette", in which an arrow is shot up into the air and the last person who runs away wins. Rob wins, but the arrow lands in his foot.That evening, when Roxanne is packing, Becky's tooth falls out, but Roxanne is too busy to notice and she tells her that she'll put a dollar under her pillow later. When Becky asks why she would do it instead of the Tooth Fairy, Roxanne tells Lenny that she's worried that she ruined Becky's childhood. When Lenny hears his kids supposedly talking on their cellphones, he comes into their bedroom to find them actually talking on "cup phones" with the other kids. Happy that the kids are starting to have the same kind of fun he did at their age, he asks everyone to install cup phones around the house. Roxanne then tells Becky through the cup phone the truth about the Tooth Fairy.In the morning while packing the car, Roxanne sees all the kids having fun down by the lake and decides that they can't leave the lake house. Happy with his wife's new attitude, Lenny decides they should head to a waterpark for a day. There, Bean learns to drink milk out of a carton, while Marcus flirts constantly with Jasmine and Amber, much to Rob's dismay. The group run into Dickie again, this time with one of his friends Wiley (Steve Buscemi), who ends up in the hospital after a zip line accident.Back out the house, Deanne becomes suspicious of Kurt when she sees him spending time with Rita, Lenny's nanny. That evening, the adults spend time together drinking and dancing, while reminiscing about their pasts. In the morning, Rob suspects that Marcus had sex with either Jasmine or Amber or both of them and confronts him. Jasmine and Amber assure him that he didn't and Marcus assures him that he never would. Roxanne then confronts Lenny about the fact that he canceled their Milan plane reservations before the funeral behind her back. Lenny claims that he felt their time at the lake house was necessary because their kids were becoming too spoiled, but was unsure if Roxanne would go along with it. He tells her he won't lie to her again. Deanne confronts Kurt about supposedly flirting with Rita. Kurt assures her that he wasn't flirting with her, but he enjoyed having an actual conversation with her because he doesn't feel like he gets that with Deanne. Deanne offers to take him out on more dates. Eric then admits to the group that he isn't co-owner of a lawn furniture company and that he was laid off two months ago. He just didn't want everyone to think of him as a failure. Lenny resolves to offer Eric an investment opportunity. Gloria then tells everyone that despite their recent hostility, she senses love between everyone.The group then head off to a 4th of July barbecue, where they are once again challenged by Dickie and his friends to a rematch of the basketball game. Wiley, in a massive body cast, had escaped intensive care to watch. Rob suggests that their coach would want them to take the challenge and despite everyone's being out of shape and Rob's injury, they agree to a game. The game is close, but most of the players get too tired to continue, leaving only Lenny and Dickie on the court. They bring out their sons to continue playing. When Lenny has the chance to make the game winning shot, he deliberately misses and allows Dickie to win, giving him a sense of victory. Lenny and the others take the loss in stride.While watching the fireworks, a drunken Marcus decides to play another game of Arrow Roulette, causing everyone to run away, except for Wiley, who can't move, and the arrow lands in his foot and he passes out as the movie ends.

Tags: comedy, feel-good, entertaining, flashback

Review:
I just know I laughed a numerous amount of times, and I felt good after having watched it.And no, I'm not a stupid guy; I like a good plot, good acting, directing and well-thought-of puns as does the next guy.
Some might disagree, but I'd say Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, David Spade and Kevin James is actually a pretty good main cast for a comedy.
one of the worst movies that I have ever seen.Now before you say that I have no sense of humor, I will say that I'm a big fan of some of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, and Chris Rock.
These guys probably had a lot of fun making this movie and they probably thought that they were being really funny, but I just didn't feel the same way.
Adam sandler and the rest of them seem to be sleepwalking through this movie, We managed 40 minutes of it until we looked at each other wondering why we were wasting a perfectly good evening watching this rubbish.
When making a movie it should be at least twenty five percent different then what audiences have seen or else they're paying to see the same mediocrity over and over again.Overall, "Grown Ups" could possibly win the award for the most cliché Hollywood film of the century, although, surprisingly, that's sort of a complement.
I looked at the front cover of the DVD in tesco, it looked fun, was £3 and promised lots with some of the best comedy actors in the business, I was excited to see it, I love Sandler, Buscemi, Rock, James and Schneider...then......Two hours later...
This film is without a doubt one of the unfunniest funny films ever.There can be no real spoilers for there is no real plot - that's okay though, some films without plot are some of the best ever made - but this is just badly written and it's one of those films where every scene you're watching: you're thinking to yourself "Well, my Nan could have made that scene funnier" (by writing it, not starring in it!) I've turned away from Hollywood before and if this is the new future of comedy then count me and millions of others out.Is this the final nail in the coffin of the career of Adam Sandler?
The climax of the film ends in some kind of basketball square-off between two groups of high school friends while the spectators, all back country rednecks wearing US flag shirts, cheer on.The whole movie is like an SNL reunion of mostly has been actors.
What happened to the once good comedy actors like Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider?
I am not a big Adam Sandler fan, but I do really like Spanglish, The Wedding Singer, Reign Over Me, Happy Gilmore and Punch Drunk Love, while disliking Little Nicky, You Don't Mess with the Zohan and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, so I thought why not as the trailer was sort of interesting.Sadly, I found Grown Ups a rather lazy effort.
Grown ups is actually painful to watch.I've never found Sandler funny but he's never been this annoying either.Kevin James is just the token fat guy to be laughed at.
OMG even when i love that kind of humor and I indeed play baskeball this was one of the worst movies ever, i've pass all the registration pain just to write a review this movie SUCK so many good actors playing a horrible film, looks like crisis is being on everybosdy doors, come one give something good to the public, please respect the audience.Is the second Sandler painful movie, look like someone is loosing his touch, please see this moveie and please complain about it, it's our right, we spendt lot's of time watching this horrible film that i would like to payback my time.
Don't waste your time watching this...Cannot believe Adam Sandler did this movie.
I will tell you: I complain because I try to be as objective as possible (even though I do not always achieve it), and I think a film deserves the opportunity of being evaluated by its own achievements and fails.Sure, that attitude is balanced by the unavoidable expectations created by my previous experiences with a same actor, director or genre.So, accepting the fact that it is impossible for me to be completely objective, at least I have to give the movie the chance to defense itself, and the best way of doing that is paying in order to see it.And in the case of Grown Ups, I regret having done that.As horrible as the comparison sounds, Grown Ups pretends to be a modern version of the brilliant film The Big Chill, but with jokes about urine and obesity.Its cast includes talented comedians, who are Colin Quinn, Tim Meadows, David Spade, Kevin James and the great Chris Rock.My hope before watching Grown Ups was that their work was going to raise a little bit the quality of the movie, but unfortunately, that did not happen...Sandler's malignant aura infected all the actors, and it put them at his same level of clowning, which provokes more irritation than laughs.And a factor which was obviously introduced in order to attract more spectators is the presence of cute actresses.However, not even the good looks from Salma Hayek, Maria Bello and Madison Riley were enough to compensate the atrocious screenplay.Talking about the screenplay, I found it to be boring and painfully insipid.We have the obligatory rude old lady, precocious kids, immature adults and a loser whose wife could be his mother...or his grandma.I have the impression that Sandler simply reunited his friends to have a good time, film some twaddle and sell it as a "summer movie".Co-screenwriters Sandler and Fred Wolf did not even bother to tell a real story, so the whole movie is only a parade of unconnected and unfunny vignettes which do not lead to anywhere.In summary, I hope you have a better common sense than me and avoid this execrable movie.Please, learn from my mistakes; at least like that they will be useful for something..
All the jokes were unfunny, the movie was boring, I wouldn't consider this to be comedy, they should make a whole new category for movies like this, and I'm really starting to change my mind about being an Adam Sandler fan after watching this piece of junk.
Someone had to have realized it was going to be a terrible movie during filming as none of the jokes were even funny so I'm surprised they came up with this garbage.
I was somewhat curious to watch it because I saw Adam Sandler in Boston when he was filming the movie, but it would have been better to restrain my curiosity..
The script is nothing short of tacky and the movie never really gives you a reason to keep watching.I kept looking over at people in the audience after one liners and everyone would just kind of look at each other with awkward, uncomfortable faces.Almost every star in this film feels past their prime with the exception of Kevin James.
Fans of the stars will have a hard time trying to like this movie and people that aren't fans shouldn't even bother.Very disappointing film for fans of Sandler and the gang..
After the funeral, Lenny makes arrangement for their families to spend the Fourth of July weekend at the nearby lake, providing them with a chance to catch-up and expose their kids to the elements.This may be a bold assumption, but with so many Saturday Night Live alums appearing above the title, I do believe Grown Ups is intended as a comedy and therein lies the trouble: Grown Ups is not funny.
That's not good enough for industry trailblazers Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf, who pen a groundbreaking script for Grown Ups in which characters appear for the sake of luck, have one train of thought, have friends who despise them, have one defining characteristic that they retain from youth, and to top it off they have nothing of importance to accomplish.
I could spend time on the levels of non-acting found in the child actors of Grown Ups, but the likely culprit for their performances is the unholy alliance between the writing and director Dennis Dugan's orchestration.There is something for the characters to accomplish, and it's the clichéd since the early '80s sporting event rematch.
Afterwards they and their families spend a few days together at the late coach's summer cabin on a lake (in Essex, Massachusetts--beautiful scenery!) and try to reconnect and relive their childhood years by acting like idiots, ignoring their wives and ogling young girls (daughters of the character played by Rob Schneider) and trying to introduce their children to the joys of a 1970s childhood (no video games, iPods, cellphones).Adam Sandler is talented but I'll stick with him in SNL, thank you very much.
We've got Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider all in the brew as friends who grew up together and are reunited during a Fourth of July family weekend as adults...
Instead, the ex-teammates have regrouped for their coach's funeral.To honour his dearly departed trainer, Lenny (Adam Sandler) and his wife (Salma Hayek) open their lake house to his buddies (Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, David Spade) and their families (Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph).As the friends get down to their old tricks, they discover that they still have a strong connection, which they use to solve each other's personal problems.
While it is aswarm in SNL alumni, Grown Ups is a solemn assembly of family-friendly, non- alcoholic jokes delivered by a collection of castrated comedies.In fact, this movie is an example of what happens when stand-up comedians don't die of an overdose or commit suicide early on in their career.
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, and Robert Schneider all have had lead roles and one would assume that so much talent combined would result in a hilarious movie, but it wasn't the case because the material they had to work with wasn't any good.
The five friends spend some time together with their wives and kids and learn some important lessons in the process.The plot is very poorly developed and this movie could have been so much better considering the cast, but it really fails by focusing on very lazy humor instead.
If you have any real sense of humor at all, then you should agree with me that Adam Sandler has not been in a funny movie since Little Nicky.
Obviously him and Dave and Rob and Chris really show their true lack of any comedic talent at all and how the only reason they were ever truly funny at all was because there were a lot of extremely-high-on-drugs writers during their good old days at Saturday Night Live back when Chris Farley (R.I.P.) was alive who sadly ended up overdosing on drugs just as John Belushi (R.I.P.) did before him while working at the same show.
These scumbags that can't act or tell a single funny original joke are doing a disservice to the comedic profession by agreeing to take a paycheck from this retarded script together just so they can take millions of dollars out of the pockets of the millions of brainwashed adult human slaves that don't have a taste for any kind of movie that isn't a totally unintelligent "romantic comedy" and are the reason for the worse and worse mediocrity we are faced with daily from Hollywood products.
Having seen a lot of modern Sandler films, Grown Ups provides a significant amount more laughter than films such as "Click", despite lacking in story by comparison, it also gave me more laugh out loud moments than the inappropriately named "Funny People".Being harsh on this film is easy, the story is absolute trash, and the characters are completely unbelievable, and poorly explained, by the end of the film the sudden 'character development' and general preachyness of the plot line will most likely leave you wishing the film will end, and considering the running time of under 2 hours, it really does feel its length.
But despite the absolutely terrible story, the humor by Sandler, Rock and especially James is top notch and you will laugh at this film, see it with your partner or a friend and i guarantee, you will have a good time..
The latest result of that combination of family love and dirty adult humor is "Grown Ups."Despite pooling together the talents of long-time Sandler friends and collaborators Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, David Spade and Kevin James, "Grown Ups" is an aimless comedy that amounts to a string of recurring jokes and improvisational insult humor with a 50-50 success rate.
One shouldn't expect much else from a Sandler movie, but it's the plot and attempt to be more family-centric that dampens the humor.The movie focuses on five old friends, each with some quirky character concept (Rock's a stay-at-home dad, Spade is a single man-whore, James is fat ...) who come together years later after the junior high basketball coach who led them to a state championship passes away.
They spend the weekend together with all their families at a lake house and do various activities, some funny, some not.That about does it for plot, which ends up as the ultimate problem with "Grown Ups." Each character has a back story that influences how they behave and such and what they learn by the end of the film, but nothing pushes this movie along except the jokes that Sandler and co-writer Fred Wolf whip up.
If you enjoy Sandler's humor, the early barrage of jokes delivers enough decent laughs despite how contrived and even predictable his style has become.Interestingly, the family element looks like it could work toward the beginning: Sandler tries to convince his two boys to stop playing video games and texting and behaving like rich snobs, something recent movies seem to forget in their depiction of today's kids.
As many of Sandler's films tend to do, the bottom of the movie drops out with barely a joke and these peripheral cameo characters such as Steve Buscemi are called upon to provide ineffective comic relief."Grown Ups" strives to be funny in that Happy Madison productions way, but also heartfelt and real in its depiction of family life.
Some longer than others.That should have been what was on the poster.This movie was dreadfully dreary, boring, tedious, mundane, sleepy and just overall lack-luster.Gone is the funny, humour, jokes, comedy, laughter and entertainment which you had come to expect from such a "talented" pool of comedians.Don't let the cover of the DVD fool you...it's a lie...lies...lies - all lies I tell you.It will deceive you and it will put you to sleep before your time.I feel cheated as I had watched this in a movie theatre and had to pay for the candy - even though I didn't pay for the movie..
Lenny Feder: No!In Grown Ups, Adam Sandler and comedians Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, and Rob Schneider play old school chums meeting at a resort to honor their deceased coach.
If you're expecting an old Adam sandler movie then chances are you won't like it..
not the overtly silly retarded comedy of old sandler movies.Don't get me wrong i like that kind of humor too...They take shots at each other, reminisce about the past, tries to relive their childhood games...Steve Buscemi is hilarious..God bless him...A lot of people said there isn't any story..And there isn't...Like i said this is very real humor, its like we are seeing a few of their moments over a period of 2-3 days...
I am a fan of Spade, James, Sandler, and Rock and I find them funny in movies of their own.
Five childhood friends (Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, Rob Schneider, and David Spade) reunite due to the death of their youth basketball coach and spend a Fourth of July holiday weekend together with their families in "Grown Ups", a meandering summer would-be comedy misfire which brings an admittedly likable cast together and gives them absolutely nothing interesting or amusing to work with.
As an Adam Sandler fan, like I am, I would just because it's not that bad but as a whole movie...
The story is about five junior high school buddies who were big in there day, now 30 years later, they all are in there 40's pretty much lead ordinary and dull lives and they played by Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade.
A few people told me Grown ups was really funny so I watched it for myself to catch a few laughs.The first thing that came to mind while watching it, was that it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
The jokes are not funny, the acting is not anything to brag about, and the story is for the most part stupid.I now believe the friends and family who recommended this movie to me must be semi retarded and i'll never think of them in the same way.
Adam Sandler put a lot of jokes into the script that were not funny at all.
"Grown Ups" is an example of much of the worst elements of Sandler's films, all thrown into one movie, without any plot to hold it together.
These are five "funny" men, and seeing Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and Kevin James star in a movie together might make a Happy Madison fan pee themselves in delight, but these guys are just not given much funny to say.
I think Im going to rename Adam Sandler "Mid life crisis man" After sitting through Funny people which is basically a longer slightly more angry and cynical version of Grown ups, Im beginning to wonder if Sandler will ever make another movie as good as Zohan or Happy Gilmore.
It is extraordinary that Adam Sandler deludes himself in believing that movies such as this and 'Funny People' are in any way funny because it is light years away from public expectation of a comedy.