![]() The central thrust of the narrative involves the foursome, led by Sandler’s Lenny, getting into a scrape with a local rich-boy fraternity, most prominently represented by Lautner, but that frankly isn’t even a quarter of it. The suffocating amount of story the filmmakers pack into the film proves to be another crucial element to this calamity. ![]() The fact that one is always aware of the hard work that went into this out-of-touch sequel is partly what makes it so irritating. The kind of broad comedy that’s approximated here works best when there’s a potent sense of physical spontaneity and effortlessly natural wit, both of which are entirely absent from the film. The patchy script, by Sandler, Fred Wolf, and Tim Herlihy, feels particularly laborious, in fact. ![]() From the agitated CGI elk that pisses all over Adam Sandler and noshes on Taylor Lautner’s crotch, to the legal diligence likely required to clear the music rights for Warren Zevon’s immortal “Werewolves of London” to soundtrack the film’s central foursome-played by Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, and David Spade-as they shop and goof off at their local Kmart, it clearly took a lot of effort to make Grown Ups 2 happen.
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