Critics have not gone easy on the Adam Sandler comedy, despite box office predictions in the $40 millions for opening weekend. Here’s what some critics are saying about the sequel to 2010 hit “Grown Ups”:
“It’s juvenile, it’s obvious and it’s crass. But with Sandler at the helm, at least it’s as easy to like as it is to forget.”
-Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
“‘Grown Ups 2’ looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us.”
-Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
“Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, Grown Ups 2 is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making “Ow! My Balls!” seem like a plausible future project.”
-Andrew Barker, Variety
“It’s a bad movie, too, just old-school bad, the kind that’s merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats.”
-Mick La Salle, San Francisco Chronicle
“The movie lurches from one gross-out scene to another, flipping the bird at continuity and logic.”
-Sara Stewart, New York Post
“The obvious amount of hard work that went into this out-of-touch sequel is partly what makes it so irritating.”
-Chris Cabin, Slant Magazine
“Nobody escapes untainted by the foul stench of ‘Grown Ups 2.'”
-Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
“In the first five minutes, a deer walks into the star’s bedroom and urinates on his face. It’s all downhill from there.”
-Matt Patches, Time Out New York
“A few decent one-liners notwithstanding, the movie comes off as willfully uninspired,”
-Nick Schager, Village Voice
“An average Adam Sandler comedy, which, sadly, means it’s a below-average comedy”
-Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
One of the few fans was Entertainment Weekly‘s Owen Gleiberman, who said:
“In certain ways, ‘Grown Ups 2’ marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy.”
