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Grown Ups
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 31 critic reviews
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Based on 96 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by:
Adam Sandler
Fred Wolf
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 25, 2010
Running Time: 102 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for crude material including suggestive references, language and some male rear nudity
Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, and Maya Rudolph
Grown Ups, starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade, is a comedy about five friends and former teammates who reunite years later to honor the passing of their childhood basketball coach. With their wives and kids in tow, they spend the Fourth of July holiday weekend together at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. Picking up where they left off, they discover why growing older doesn't mean growing up. (Sony Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
ReelViews James Berardinelli
No one in their right mind goes to an Adam Sandler movie for any reason other than to laugh, and Grown Ups delivers.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
For a while, the movie looks like "Couples Retreat" or a Tyler Perry house party, only instead of cookie-cutter conflicts, everyone just grows happier and more relaxed.
Read Full Review >St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall
What kept me laughing is the genuine camaraderie among Sandler's posse, the way they almost play themselves that perfectly suits this slim material.
Read Full Review >Boxoffice Magazine Steve Ramos
Current Saturday Night Live (SNL) comic Will Forte may have bombed in the recent SNL spin-off "MacGruber," but a dream team of SNL alums, including ringleader Adam Sandler, put the luster back in the SNL reputation with the audience-pleasing, all-ages comedy Grown Ups.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
A pleasant, genial, good-hearted, sometimes icky comedy that’s like spending a weekend with well-meaning people you don’t want to see again any time real soon.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The only people humiliated, really, are older people and heavy people and nerds and vegans and black people and mothers who breast-feed their 4-year-olds. Everybody else gets a pass.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
The guys are more amusing than not, and they display the easy chemistry of real-life pals.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
In Sandler’s movies, men don’t cry; they urinate. So the scene in which the stars empty their bladders and change the color of a swimming pool’s water might be the weepiest of the year.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The film drifts along on a stream of humiliation jokes - physical, emotional, sexual, hairpiece-ial.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
Despite the lazily self-satisfied results, his (Sandler) aging fan base likely will come along for the lackadaisical ride.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
The movie devolves into a series of clichéd bits, none of which are that funny.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Beneath all the forced hilarity lies an awful fear of aging--and Sandler is only 43! This is gonna be rough.
Read Full Review >Variety Peter Debruge
Grown Ups delivers precious few laughs for the sheer volume of comedy talent on offer.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
The new Adam Sandler comedy has all the charm of a home movie that does not star your own family, which means it's overly sentimental, filled with you-had-to-be-there moments, bad jokes and even worse camera angles.
Read Full Review >Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf
No viewer goes into this movie expecting John Cassavetes’s "Husbands," least of all from soft-serve director Denis Dugan (You Don’t Mess with the Zohan).
Read Full Review >USA Today Scott Bowles
If Sandler hopes to win over new fans, he may want to cork the scatological humor and let it age a bit.
Read Full Review >St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams
Nobody escapes unscathed, except, of course, for Sandler, who co-wrote the infantile screenplay.
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
These guys set out to make a movie where they could crack each other up. At this late date, they can’t even manage that.
Read Full Review >NPR Mark Jenkins
Indeed, despite occasional attempts at plot and character, this is basically a roast with scenery.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
A movie that at best is irrelevant and at worst is unwatchable.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
While Sandler has never trafficked in epigrammatic wit, there’s a difference between, say, Billy Madison’s “Of course I peed my pants--everyone my age pees their pants” or "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry’s" shakedown of hetero squeamishness, and this lazy stuff--the difference between smart-dumb and plain-dumb.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Grown Ups finds Sandler reverting to lunkheaded, lazy-laff form.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
When Grown Ups star and co-writer Adam Sandler repeatedly slapped Rob Schneider in the face with a dehydrated banana, I was jealous of Schneider, who suffered less than I did getting slapped upside the head by this rotting fruit of a comedy.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
The film has some chuckles, if no belly laughs; it has some warmth, if no great heat.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Adam is back to lining his pockets again.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
The guys abuse each other in what's meant to be fraternal affection but feels more like the discomfort of being stuck together in a terrible movie.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Grown Ups is exactly, beat for beat, what the previews would have you believe: a depressingly predictable, two-chuckle deconstruction of what Sandler sees as the modern American male.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
If Grown Ups were any lazier or more slapdash, it’d be a home movie.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
It doesn’t get worse than Grown Ups, Adam Sandler’s sloppy entry into this year’s man-child-comedy sweepstakes. Lazy, mean-spirited, incoherent, infantile and, above all, witless.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 96 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Paulette S gave it a1:
What a waste of time! I think the children should have been banned from this mess of a film.
Mike C. gave it a1:
Brutal lack of humor. Warning: If your IQ is over 80 you will NOT like this. If that's not you then you'll most likely have the time of your life, consider it one of the all-time greats, and make a point of visiting Metacritic to rate it a 10.
Craig gave it a1:
The worst. Not funny at all. Embarrassing. Adam Sandler needs to refund me $18.00.
John J. gave it an8:
If you do not like this movie you are not a party animal or fun lover and I feel sorry for you. Perhaps you would be better suited as a Monk or Hermit!
George M gave it a9:
A absolutely hilarious movie i thought everybody's performance was awesome and i don't see why all the best Adam Sandler movies and classics get hated on by critics.
Jacob F gave it an8:
It's not a movie smart people would go see. But I laughed all the way through and after it was over I was very pleased with the comedy and my jaw was sore from laughing.
Dylan M. gave it a3:
There are a lot of laughs to this one, yes, but who in their right mind would write a movie less than an hour long without any plot?!? It's the visual form of a sugar rush that way: a quick burst of hilarity that ultimately proves to be unsatisfying in the end.
