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Chris Rock, left, David Spade, Kevin James, Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler star as childhood buddies brought together for a party 30 years later in the comedy “Grown Ups.” |
“Grown Ups” is a sleazy, hypocritical family comedy that makes fun of fat people for being overweight, ridicules older people for having a libido, makes sport of “ugly” girls for not being supermodels, pokes fun at older women for expelling excessive gas, and gets mileage out of plopping people’s faces into animal poop.
Clearly, a market exists for this juvenile, witless comedy, as evidenced by a Monday night preview of “Grown Ups” where viewers roared with approval at many of these jokes – except for the many other jokes when they remained stone-cold silent. (Rob Schneider waking up with a breast pump attached to his right nipple didn’t go over well at all.)
Taking a cue from “The Big Chill” (which took its cue from “Return of the Secaucus Seven”), “Grown Ups” uses a funeral to reunite five childhood basketball pals 30 years after they won the 1978 championship for their school.
Their beloved coach (Blake Clark) has gone to the final playoff in the sky, and the former players have come together for not only his funeral, but to spend a few days reconnecting at a summer cabin near the lake with all their kids. (Read more…)