Grown Ups Reviews

Movie Reviews

• what might just be the summer's worst movie, no small feat in a season already reeking of foul cinematic emissions

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• These guys set out to make a movie where they could crack each other up. At this late date, they can't even manage that

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• there's something admirable

  Review rate : C+ by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News ]

• The result falls short of a complete meal but provides an easily digestible 100-minute massage of the funny bone

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• the movie devolves into a series of cliched bits, none of which are that funny

  by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]

• the film drifts along on a stream of humiliation jokes - physical, emotional, sexual, hairpiece-ial

  by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• Slowly and painfully

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• Nobody escapes unscathed, except, of course, for Sandler, who co-wrote the infantile screenplay

  by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]

• Lazy, mean-spirited, incoherent, infantile

  by Stephen Holden [NY Times ]

• it's overly sentimental

  by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times ]

• It's not the heat; it's the stupidity

  Review rate : B- by Steve Persall [St. Petersburg Times ]

• Grown Ups is the perfect poster child for this maddening summer of movie mediocrity

  by Connie Ogle [Miami Herald ]

• Grown Ups is Adam Sandler growing up - but not too much

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• Dumb, lazy, obvious and largely pointless

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• Assuming you're in the mood

  by Amy Biancolli [San Francisco Chronicle ]

• Adam is back to lining his pockets again

  by Rick Groen [Globe and Mail ]

• a movie of vast and vexing illogic

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

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