![]() ![]() (Schneider’s character isn’t mentioned in Grown Ups 2. ![]() Once again, Sandler plays Lenny, a hotshot Los Angeles agent who has moved his family back to the East Coast, getting more involved in the lives of his chums Eric (James), Kurt (Rock) and Marcus (Spade). It’s one thing that Grown Ups 2 is unfunny-what’s really galling is that Sandler and his cohorts can barely come up with a good reason for its very existence. If Grown Ups was a solid, conventional idea executed with warmth and the prerequisite juvenile sense of humor, Grown Ups 2 is simply a slapped-together cash grab. The first Grown Ups was hardly stellar-or even that great-but it had a certain amount of charm, undoubtedly helped by the fact that he teamed up with real-life friends Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider to play a bunch of high school buddies who reunite to catch up on old times after their beloved basketball coach dies. As lazy as his movies may be, he’s always moved on to a brand new project afterward, even if he tends to half-ass most everything he does. It’s also his first sequel, a fact that may surprise his loudest detractors. ![]() There’s nothing quite so ballsy or fiendishly foolish in Grown Ups 2, which is one of Sandler’s least interesting movies ever. In the past, even the shoddiest of Adam Sandler’s films had their pockets of moronic nuttiness that stayed with you, even if the movies didn’t: Al Pacino lusting after Sandler in a dress in Jack and Jill Sandler playing an Israeli operative who gets to fulfill his dream of becoming a hairdresser in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Vanilla Ice going insane in That’s My Boy-all completely stupid bits of comedic weirdness that, you have to hand it to the guy, nobody else would be nervy (or shameless) enough to try. ![]()
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