![]() An annoyingly naive (Though still absurdly hot) love interest - played by Brooklyn Decker - and an unlikably cocky and unbelievable lead - played by Adam Sandler -, bug you enough, while the people who almost completely knocked me out of the film are the insufferable components in Sandler's Danny Maccabee's uncompellingly preposterous scheme. Sure, that's the exact same thing they did in the still mediocre, but still superior "Grown Ups", only the difference here is that, where "Grown Ups" was comprised of moderately likable and not terribly annoying characters, this film is owned by obnoxious characters. It's certainly inconsistent with the film's type of storytelling, because when awful music is playing, it's typically over a montage, or party scene, or something that involves stuff actually happening, whereas most of the rest of the film just limps along, doing absolutely nothing but telling limp jokes and following our characters around. Outside of beautiful women, if nothing else can be complimented about Happy Madison productions, it's typically an excellent soundtrack, but this one, on the other hand, outside of a couple of Sting songs, is pretty bad, Often going for a kind of cheesy pop noise that is not only obnoxious to people with an actual good taste in music, but rather inconsistent with this film's very non-fluffy tone. It's a plague on many films before this, just like it's a plague now, and while it's not enough to destroy this film, it's just one of the many missteps that keep this film from raising anywhere above mediocre. This film goes plagued by the new Happy Madison comedy concept of free-flowing jokes with no real punchline, in order to give a sense of realism, when really it just doesn't. In a gratuitous almost two hour runtime, there are only so many amusing jokes, while all the rest fall flat. True, those moments are far and few between, but they are there, and they do wake you up on occasion and yet, it still comes down to the "far and few between". Hey, that sounds like a reflection of the film, because this film also relies on beautiful women to kind of reduce the sting of the monotony and nothingness until it can come up with genuinely amusing jokes, which are admittedly here now and again. That is not a genuine strength of the film by any stretch of the imagination, but hey, it makes for good padding in this paragraph while I try to figure out something actually good to say. ![]() Yeah, I joke, but come on people, you have to admit that if Adam Sandler knows nothing else, it's how to get some pretty blasted amazing-looking women in his films, and sure enough, they're all over the place. Hey, it's no more of a mess than this film, which is yet more of the same, if not a little less, and yet, things still manage to stay relatively intact, because as much of a mess as this film is, it's not without a few brights spots, and just enough to help pick it up, though never very far. Yup, all of that random, underwhelming ranting, only to simply lead up to a cheesy title reference joke that I already opened this review with. ![]() Come on Adam, we've seen you do better you have a lot of potential in you, and yet you continue to miss almost all of your marks and fall into the same-old-same-old that just does not really work any more, no matter how much you tell us to "just go with it". I guess when he's not in shorts and on roller skates while being approached by incompetent police, he doesn't know what to do, just like how Adam Sandler doesn't know what to do when he's not being obnoxious. Okay, I didn't mind the film, but it is an absolute mess, and Swardson really didn't help with his talentless, unfunny, stupid self. No, I'm kidding I was never really with this film. I thought I was willing to "just go with it", but then Nick Swardson stepped into frame.
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