Grown Ups Review
This is the story about five friends in their early forty’s who reunite at the funeral of their childhood basketball coach. After the funeral they spend the Fourth of July weekend together, with their families, at the lake house where they had once celebrated a championship basketball season. Even though these men are “grown ups” now, they don’t always act like it.
Rating: Three out of five buckets
Release Date: November 9, 2010
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 10+
Sexual Content: Moderate
Violent Content: Mild
Crude or Profane Language: Moderate
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Mild
Talking Points:
Great all star cast with Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade. This group together lends itself to a comedy.
Adam Sandler plays a successful Hollywood agent. Once he and his family are at the Lake House, Lenny (Adam Sandler) realizes how spoiled his children are. Initially his kids only drank bottled water, and he couldn’t get them away from their cell phones and video games. It was refreshing to see the gradual change of his kids, they learned to appreciate nature; and that you don’t need electronics to have fun. This is a good lesson for kids.
Some adults in their forty’s will relate to these five men as they face middle age pressures, such as their career issues, marriage, parenting, weight gain and of course hair loss.
This is a PG13 rating, which I thought was appropriately rated.
Sexual Content:
- Some things parents may want to know: there were many suggestive sexual comments, some male rear nudity.
- Even though I liked “The Wedding Crashers,” and “The Hangover.” I didn’t particularly like this type of silly, potty humor, however the audience did. Some jokes were:
- One of the wives breast-fed her four year-old son, that was a continuous joke throughout the whole movie. That joke has been in many movies lately and in my opinion has gotten old.
- There were many sexual comments. The men and young boys made many suggestive comments about women.
Violent Content: Mild
- Silly slapstick violence
Profane or crude language: Moderate
Drug and Alcohol Content: Mild
My fourteen year-old daughter didn’t like it at all, she thought it was stupid and boring. My friend’s twelve year-old daughter said it was “dumb humor.” But my ten and twelve year old boys absolutely loved it, so did other boys in the theater. Whenever I looked over at my boys they had big smiles on their faces, while my daughter ‘s comments were,“This is not funny at all,” her comments made me laugh more than the movie.
It seemed that the audience thought this was a funny movie, they were laughing the whole time. Though when I interviewed people after the movie I got mixed reviews, but I found that most boys ages 10 and up loved it! When I was leaving the theater a man yelled out, “Give it five buckets.” So to compromise, I’m going to give it 3 out of 5 buckets. I do think boys 10 and up will find it to be fun and entertaining.
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