Even more than the first one, Grown Ups 2 is a series of riffs, skits and sight gags, barely integrated into anything resembling continuity.
To call these plot points would be to overstate their importance. And two teenage offspring ponder their first dates. Marcus, meanwhile, meets the son he didn't know he'd fathered, who turns out to be large and threatening. Eric is spending too much time with his mother (Georgia Engel, still riffing on her Mary Tyler Moore Show role as Ted Baxter's naive girlfriend). Roxanne wants to have a fourth child, but Lenny is reluctant. Sandler is Lenny, a Hollywood agent who's now relocated to the small Massachusetts town of his youth, supposedly because it's a more wholesome place for the three kids he's raising with wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek).Īlso living there are Marcus (David Spade), a single man with odd taste in women, and two couples: Kurt and Deanne (Chris Rock and Maya Rudolph) and Eric and Sally (Kevin James and Maria Bello), who have multiple children - although not the exact same lineups they had previously. Rob Schneider couldn't make it to the set for the second installment, it seems, but the other principals play the same roles as before. It's a fitting introduction to the movie's tone. Indeed the story opens with a sequence in which a large male deer urinates copiously on not one but two of the characters. That means some creepy sexual insinuations, if not so many as the first time.īut excreta and flatulence are the movie's two true fixations (with projectile vomiting running a strong third). Like its predecessor, this is a vehicle for Adam Sandler, his pals and whatever they think they can get away with. The genre has become less knowing since then, so the follow-up to 2010's Grown Ups is named simply Grown Ups 2. Two decades ago, when stupid Hollywood comedies were relatively smart, they lampooned their own sequelitis with titles like Hot Shots! Part Deux. With: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive content, language and some male rear nudity