The film is produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison and. Rob Schneider did not resprise his role from the first film due to scheduling conflicts. It features an ensemble cast including Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Salma Hayek. The film is the sequel to Grown Ups (2010). “Grown Ups 2" looks like it was a lot of fun to make. Grown Ups 2 is a 2013 comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, and produced by Adam Sandler. Rather, he’s the white Tyler Perry: smart enough to know better, savvy enough to do it anyway, lazy enough not to care. With the slack, lackadaisical effort of “Grown Ups 2,” Sandler has perhaps revealed himself not as a confrere of Apatow, who directed him in “Funny People” to a performance both crude and soulful. Judd Apatow’s recent “This Is 40" more fully explored a similar anxiety of middle-age and the comedic pathos of everyday life with messily vibrant results. After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend. That concept, and the tension it creates within the male characters, is teasingly just close enough to an actual point to remind that this entire enterprise could have actually been about something besides whether chocolate ice cream looks like poo. With Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade. Late in the film, Sandler’s character bemoans the fact that they are all old and irrelevant, that there should be no more parties for them, just the low-key respectability of family-man responsibility. After a reunion three years ago, Lenny moves his family back to his old hometown - but bullies, crazy drivers and party crashers make it hilariously difficult With David Spade, Chris Rock, Selma Hayek. The film’s cast is nonsensically populated with Sandler regulars, alums from various eras of “Saturday Night Live,” random tween talents, a Schwarzenegger-Shriver son, a Victoria’s Secret model, Shaquille O’Neal, a character apparently modeled on hip-hop personality Humpty Hump, Steve Austin, a “Hunger Games” actor and Taylor Lautner from the “Twilight” movies. Eventually last-minute plans to throw a party push the story along, with most every character in the movie able to pull together an elaborate ‘80s-themed costume on a few hours notice. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.Directed by Sandler go-to Dennis Dugan from a screenplay credited to Sandler, Fred Wolf and Tim Herlihy, the film’s story is structured loosely around the last day of school, which somehow allows the four fathers to have the day to knock around. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Here’s the official synopsis for Grown Ups 2: The film stars also Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, Maya Rudolph, Nick Swardson and Patrick Schwarzenegger. And believe it or not, this might be a role that Lautner was Taylor-made for (sorry). There's also a nice flip on the "hot girl car trouble" scene from the first film. After you get past the deer piss, there are a couple of ridiculous cameos from Shaquille O'Neal and Andy Samberg that are nice throwbacks to the zany Adam Sandler movies of old. I hate myself for saying this, but I actually got a few chuckles out of the trailer. Columbia Pictures has released the first trailer for director Dennis Dugan’s comedy sequel Grown Ups 2.
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