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Grown Ups

GROWN UPS (Sony, 2010) D: Dennis Dugan, w/ Adam Sandler, Kevin James. Rating: NN DVD package: NN Rating: NN


Adam Sandler’s in mild-mannered nice-guy mode through a bland comedy that feels like one of those decades-after-the-fact sitcom reunion movies.

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He plays successful Hollywood agent and happy family guy Lenny Feder, who reunites with his public school basketball buddies (and everybody’s wife and kids) over a long holiday weekend at a cottage.

Kevin James plays a fat guy. Chris Rock underplays a twittery househusband. David Spade does the horny drunk who never settled down. Best of the lot is Rob Schneider’s toupéed New Age weenie.

The string telephone, the stupid arrow game and the choreographed girl-watching are entertaining, but too much time is spent with the guys lobbing soft zingers at each other. That runs out of steam by the halfway mark, so everyone heads off to a water park where the sight of people having fun substitutes for comedy.

Veteran Sandler director Dennis Dugan keeps things moving, but nothing can redeem the ham-fisted sentiment.

Extras are sparse, uninformative and about as funny as the movie.

EXTRAS Cast doc, bloopers. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

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