Grown Ups 2 2013

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: It makes the first movie look like The Maltese Falcon. Read more

Andy Webster, New York Times: This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: [The] lazy, scattershot and anything-but-mature sequel to the leaden Grown-Ups. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, "Grown Ups 2" is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making "Ow! My Balls!" seem like a plausible future project. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Largely free of Sandler's usual schmaltz and lame romance, it's pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that's fascinating without ever being all that funny. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It's hard to imagine another comedy coming along this year that is this abrasive and free of laughs. It's like everyone involved intentionally tried to create a horrible movie. Read more

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: Apparently the world demanded another family-friendly version of "The Hangover," one that combined scatological comedy with smarmy sentimentality. Read more

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Sandler's films have always been stupid, but the early stuff is pretty harmless; here the jokes almost always come at the expense of someone else, the kind of needless bullying one expects of a YouTube comment section. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: Friendship, family and breasts: Sometimes that's all you need. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: In certain ways, Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: A movie of fools, by fools, for fools. Read more

Wesley Morris, Grantland: These movies are about four friends -- played by comedians -- remembering what it was like to be young. How much better for an audience would it be if they remembered what it was like to make comedy? Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a catalog of tossed-out material. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Grown Ups 2 looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Nobody escapes untainted by the foul stench of Grown Ups 2. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: For all its warm and fuzzy notions of family and community, Grown Ups 2, directed by longtime Sandler cohort Dennis Dugan, has a desperate reliance on nasty jokes about pee, poo and -- with surprising frequency -- gay panic. Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: Grown Ups Minus 2 would be more apt. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Like most Adam Sandler movies, it's exactly like most Adam Sandler movies. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: The movie lurches from one gross-out scene to another, flipping the bird at continuity and logic. It honestly seems as if Sandler and his team descended on a random suburb, halfheartedly improvising and moving on when they got bored. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: Grown Ups 2 delivers exactly what it's been advertising in trailers and on talk shows: grubby low-comic escapism. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: When Taylor Lautner is the funniest thing in a movie starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, we're in trouble. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The temptation arises to say something nice about "Grown Ups 2" just because it doesn't cause injury. But no, it's a bad movie, just old-school bad, the kind that's merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats. Read more

Adam Nayman, Globe and Mail: None of the stars are trying very hard, and so the most memorable presences are the cameos: If nothing else, Grown Ups 2 will go down as the only film in history to find room for Steve Buscemi alongside "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Adam Sandler scrapes the bottom of the barrel -- and then he pukes into it -- with Grown Ups 2... Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Yes, it's time for another visit to the Adam Sandler Death-of-Cinema Fun Factory, the big-screen version of a terrible sitcom where laugh tracks are replaced by the co-stars chuckling at their own awful material. Read more

Matt Patches, Time Out: In the first five minutes, a deer walks into the star's bedroom and urinates on his face. It's all downhill from there. Read more

Nick Schager, Village Voice: A few decent one-liners notwithstanding, the movie comes off as willfully uninspired ... Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: The fact that some moments are genuinely laugh-out-loud funny almost makes the whole endeavor sadder. Read more