Sandler’s character, Lenny Feder, has moved his wife (Salma Hayek) and kids from Hollywood back to the town he grew up in, where everyone he ever knew still lives. Anyone desiring a serious education in the fundamentals of how to make a comedy should study “Grown Ups 2” as an example of one that does almost everything wrong. When they need a few cheap jokes, they throw in a side character who’s physically weird - a really fat kid, a really manly woman - and take a few cracks at him or her. Characters and gags are set up without payoff. It’s worse than “Grown Ups,” for heaven’s sake! Written by Sandler and Fred Wolf and directed by Dennis Dugan, this awe-inspiringly pointless dreck takes the easy path every time. It’s worse than most comedy sequels, worse than most Sandler movies, and worse than most food-borne illnesses. Unsurprisingly, Sandler’s first actual sequel, “Grown Ups 2,” is even lazier, dumber, and less funny than usual. Why bother with voices and costumes when you can just throw on a T-shirt, walk onto the set, and be yourself? The movies in which Sandler plays a distinct character (like Zohan, for example) are few and far between. He plays a guy who dresses, talks, and acts like Adam Sandler his real-life friends play the other characters and it’s written, produced, and directed by some combination of the handful of guys who write, produce, and direct everything he does. It only seems like it because his movies tend to be interchangeable. Believe it or not, Adam Sandler has never been in a sequel before.
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