Ditto for "SNL" vet Maya Rudolph, another wasted opportunity. The funniest guy in the whole ensemble has little to nothing to do. Eric (James) is afraid to jump off a high ledge in the local quarry and has to hide his close relationship with his mother (Georgia Engel) from his wife (Maria Bello). Lenny (Sandler) has a childhood bully to confront and a wife (Salma Hayak) who wants a fourth kid. Each dude has to overcome some minor obstacle, such as Marcus (Spade) just found out he has a teenage son who comes to visit and the boy is an off-the-rails crazy oaf. They're all townies, residing in a fictional Massachusetts town, where all memories - and grudges - can be traced to kindergarten. In "Grown Ups 2" Sandler's Lenny, a hot-shot Hollywood agent in the first film, has moved his family from Los Angeles to the small East Coast town where he grew up to reunited with best buddies - Chris Rock, David Spade and Kevin James. I guess you need something like that when there's no real plot. You could make a drinking game out of it. In fact, the burp-snart (a burp-sneeze-fart combo) is one of the film's running gags. The audience I saw it with couldn't get enough of the stale, sophomoric humor that left no bodily function untouched. Adam Sandler's annual summer money grab is the unnecessary sequel "Grown Ups 2." And, though it's every bit as horrible as the first film, Sandler gets credit for knowing just what his fans want - crotch shots of guys in tight shorts and deer urinating profusely.
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