The movie starts out with 5 kids who look like the adult stars winning the city championship in basketball in 1978 at the buzzer. 30 years later they reunite at Coach "Buzzer's" funeral and opt to spend a weekend together at a lake house with their families. Three of them have "normal" families that don't appreciate them. A fourth is married to a woman twice his age and a fifth is still single.The humor consists mostly at exchanging barbs and zingers, making fun of people who are fat, short,ugly, or old. There is a sophomoric running joke of the 4 year old that still breast feeds (even in public) because the liberal permissive parents can't say no. This joke could have been left out. (Sometimes less is more.) After spending a few hours outdoors, the big five notices that their families are all inside in their electronic world. They go inside and force the family to enjoy the great outdoors with expected results. Eventually the team they beat for the championship as kids challenges them to another basketball game because Robin Williams didn't gross us out enough.The movie ends on a warm and fuzzy note as many inane comedies do, teaching us a lesson on the importance of family and friends, but not overly warm and fuzzy. I thought Salma Hayek did an excellent job considering her poorly written lines and overall weak script

Loved the movie up until you made a Canadian look like a jerk. I am a Canadian and I am personally offended by this representation of a Canadian. Running out of jokes Adam? You made a Canadian act like a girl and talk like an ass. I'll bet a million dollars he was an American actor. WTF is it with you? Russel Peters, Canadian comedian, he makes fun of his own race, why don't you take some advice from him. You want to make fun of race's, choose your own. I'm sure you can come up with a million, if you want I could help with that. Worked in a call center in Canada working for AT&T. Do you know why Canadians say eh? Because we did not understand what you said, and it sounds 10 times better than DUH? Which is what you say when you don't understand what was said. Let's see, eh? duh? What sounds better? DUH, DUH, DUH. Keep making movies where you insult other cultures, and your career will end real soon. maybe you should consult some REAL comedians, cause you are NOT one of them.

I was warned not to waste my time, but did anyway. I figured it may be good for a few laughs. I laughed once... once! But, I must admit that the one laugh was during the first half which was the only half I watched. I bought the part 1 & 2 combo disk, and after the first half of part 1, I threw the disk & case into the trash. It was as if these guys got together and started filming with no script, and just made it up as they went along. And nothing happened, over and over and over again. A woman breastfeeding a four-year old might be funny to some. But I can't imagine the same idea being funny every 5 minutes. Likewise, some might find it funny that Rob's wife looks like a homely mother. But the same thing is not funny every 5 minutes. The script declares comedy-writing bankruptcy continually.

Grown Ups isn't good. It's actually quite awful in critical terms. It's only saving grace is it's cast of actors, but even their potential is squandered at Sandler's obviously juvenile sense of humor, which mostly relies on the whole "Hey! Look at this, isn't it wacky and silly?" notion. It's story is nonexistent, much like Seinfeld, only going through simple settings and ideas for a clunky-linked sequence.As you guessed, this is a Happy Maddison film, makers of a surprise hit (www.imdb.com/title/tt1114740/reviews-208) but mostly are infamous for their juvenile- humor movies that are meant only for the lowest common denominator. Don't ever expect anything from these guys, cause I'm aware of how little they care. They, in turn, should realize how little I care.If I'm able to tip my hat to the production company for anything, it would be that HMP knows who it's general audience is, and knows them in spades,which isn't particularly a bad thing. Before, I stated that Sandler's modern filmography, when under this production company's name, can be enjoyed as films you watch with friends over the summer. And Grown Ups, silly as it is, is exactly the definitive film for that description.Grown Ups has it's moments, but it's always pushed to the side so Kevin James can earn a ladder on a board game of Chutes and Ladders or if David Spade can take another groin-shot by Rob Schneider. It's dumb, it's full of plot holes and subplots that go nowhere, and it really is just an excuse for Sandler take a vacation at the Lake and still get him and his buddies paid. But, for all my griping, I feel a weird creeping nostalgia of my own summer vacations when watching this. I felt myself actually smile, laughing even. Take a moment to think about all the dumb things you did with your friends over that time. The time you first time you went on a massive water slide at a water park and went so fast that you almost broke a toe. The time you won 4 games of Scene-It in a row and your buddy threatened to punch you in the face if he found out you cheated. The time you first did something so profoundly stupid, resulting in any injury imaginable, but you just laughed and laughed because you were under some kind of influence. It's very cartoonish, sure, but don't you remember having any close calls like that?That's what makes Grown Ups work as a Summer Bro-Film. It makes tons of money from teenagers that laugh at Sandler's bag of tricks, but it also makes one connect to one's personal past from the summers you spent AS a teenager, acting like a bunch of jackasses after watching TV. It's still bad, as a film, but for those who can look pass that, I think you can enjoy it.3 and a half Stars- C-Ranking