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2013 American film
Grown Ups 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDennis Dugan
Written byAdam Sandler
Tim Herlihy
Fred Wolf
Produced byAdam Sandler
Jack Giarraputo
StarringAdam Sandler
Kevin James
Chris Rock
David Spade
Salma Hayek
Maya Rudolph
Maria Bello
Nick Swardson
CinematographyTheo van de Sande
Edited byTom Costain
Music byRupert Gregson-Williams
Production
company		Happy Madison
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 12, 2013 (2013-07-12)
Running time101 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$80 million
Box office$94,078,459

Grown Ups 2 is a 2013 American buddy comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan, and produced by Adam Sandler. The film is the sequel to the 2010 film Grown Ups. It features an ensemble cast including Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Salma Hayek. Rob Schneider did not reprise his role from the first film. The film is produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film was released on July 12, 2013.

Plot

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Three years after the events of Grown Ups, Lenny Feder has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. 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. In the beginning, all of them still think that their children are still kids, however throughout the film they begin to accept that their children are growing up.

Cast

Production

Filming of Grown Ups 2 began on June 2, 2012, in Massachusetts, United States and ended on August 15, 2012. Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions distributed the film. The film was written by Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf and Tim Herlihy and directed by Dennis Dugan, Sandler's longtime collaborator. The film was released on July 12, 2013 in the United States. It will be released on August 16, 2013 in the United Kingdom.

The film is the first Adam Sandler has starred in a sequel. The movie also has a role played by WWE hall of famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Stand-up comedian Chris Hardwick confirmed a cameo as an ice cream vendor via his Facebook page. Additionally, the film features a cameo appearance by sportscaster Michael Kay and includes Shaquille O'Neal as a cop. On July 10, 2012, it was announced Arnold Schwarzenegger's son, Patrick, would be appearing as one of the frat brothers. Oliver Cooper was offered a role as one of the fraternity brothers but had to back out due to scheduling conflicts. The first trailer for the film was released on April 2, 2013.

Reception

Critical response

Like its predecessor, Grown Ups 2 has been heavily panned by critics. Template:Rotten Tomatoes score The consensus states: "While it's certainly the movie event of the year for filmgoers passionate about deer piss humor, Grown Ups 2 will bore, annoy, and disgust audiences of nearly every other persuasion." Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigned a normalized rating based on 27 reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a score of 19/100.

John DeFore of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a negative review, saying "Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a catalog of tossed-out material." Andrew Barker of Variety said that "Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, "Grown Ups 2" is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making "Ow! My Balls!" seem like a plausible future project." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the film one out of four stars, saying "The temptation arises to say something nice about "Grown Ups 2" just because it doesn't cause injury. But no, it's a bad movie, just old-school bad, the kind that's merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats." Linda Barnard of the Toronto Star gave the film zero out of four stars, saying "Adam Sandler scrapes the bottom of the barrel—and then he pukes into it—with Grown Ups 2, a lazily cribbed-together swamp of pointless and unfunny sketches that makes 2010’s Grown Ups look like Citizen Kane." Mark Olsen of the Los Angeles Times gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying "Grown Ups 2 looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us." Rafer Guzman of Newsday gave the film one out of four stars, saying "For all its warm and fuzzy notions of family and community, Grown Ups 2... has a desperate reliance on nasty jokes about pee, poo and -- with surprising frequency -- gay panic." A rare positive review came from Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly, who gave the film a B, saying "In certain ways, Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy." Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film two out of five stars, saying "Like most Adam Sandler movies, it’s exactly like most Adam Sandler movies... This movie stars all Sandler’s buddies and gleefully embraces lowbrow crudity even while promoting loving family values." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of The A.V. Club gave the film a D–, saying "Largely free of Sandler’s usual schmaltz and lame romance, it’s pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that’s fascinating without ever being all that funny."

Peter Keough of The Boston Globe gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying "Apparently the world demanded another family-friendly version of "The Hangover," one that combined scatological comedy with smarmy sentimentality." Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film one star out of four, saying "Mystifyingly, the movie manages to emerge plot-free. Instead, it offers a succession of humorless gross-out gags, fat jokes, suggestive posturing, bullying, belches and pratfalls. Life is simple -- and gross -- in Sandlerville." Sara Stewart of the New York Post gave the film half a star out of four, saying "The movie lurches from one gross-out scene to another, flipping the bird at continuity and logic. It honestly seems as if Sandler and his team descended on a random suburb, halfheartedly improvising and moving on when they got bored." Stephanie Merry of The Washington Post gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying "Grown Ups 2 isn’t merely mindless. At times it seems to actually drain IQ points from its viewers while wasting a talented cast of “Saturday Night Live” alums, who are all capable of being much smarter and so much funnier." Richard Roeper gave the film one and a half stars, saying "When Taylor Lautner is the funniest thing in a movie starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, we're in trouble." Andy Webster of The New York Times gave the film one out of five stars, saying "This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance. At best, it sells itself on the spectacle of a TV show’s cast reunion—and even then it disappoints. With the debacles of “That’s My Boy” and “Jack and Jill,” Mr. Sandler has increasingly squandered his comic capital. His onetime “SNL” brethren do themselves few favors—beyond a paycheck—by working in his orbit." Randy Cordova of The Arizona Republic gave the film one out of five stars, saying "In its own way, "Grown Ups 2" sets the bar really high. After all, it’s hard to imagine another comedy coming along this year that is this abrasive and free of laughs. It’s like everyone involved intentionally tried to create a horrible movie." Alonso Duralde of The Wrap gave the film a negative review, saying "Yes, it's time for another visit to the Adam Sandler Death-of-Cinema Fun Factory, the big-screen version of a terrible sitcom where laugh tracks are replaced by the co-stars chuckling at their own awful material."

Box office

As of July 21, 2013, Grown Ups 2 has grossed $85,378,459 in North America, and $8,700,000 in other countries, for a worldwide total of $94,078,459.

In North America, the film earned $16.3 million on its opening day, and opened to #2 in its first weekend, with $42,500,000, behind Despicable Me 2.

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