TORONTO — Even a cursory look at the reviews for the new comedy Grown Ups 2 will uncover one consistent phrase: “Fart jokes.”
The sequel to the 2010 romp starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and Salma Hayek — which earned $271 million at the box office — is being savaged by critics.
Here are a few samples:
“Grown Ups 2 is a lousy movie. Inert, dull, and, worst of all for a comedy, unfunny, the sequel is chock full of tired, dumb jokes and pretty lame slapstick.”
– Jim Vejvoda / IGN
“Grown Ups 2 is 101 minutes of juvenile slapstick and fart jokes. plot that staggers along happily and incoherently over depictions of projectile vomiting, bug-eyed double takes and blows to the crotch.”
– Jay Stone / Postmedia
“Grown Ups 2 is a movie that opens with a deer p***ing repeatedly on Lenny’s family and ends with a fart joke that’s been used over five times already. The film has no shame and mean-spiritedly attacks every stereotype, race, and sexuality lazily for cheap laughs. For 100 minutes Grown Ups 2 assaults you with some of the most tasteless, gross, and insulting comedy known to mankind.”
– Robert Kojder / What Culture
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“The film is one long, star-studded fart joke. Sorry, make that one long ‘burpsnart’ joke: filmmakers, running low on flatulence material, decided to combine the burp-sneeze-fart into one specialized movement for your repeated enjoyment. We are less than a minute into the film when we get the first joke featuring bodily fluids.”
– Julie Crawford / North Shore News
“Grown Ups 2 opens with a CGI deer invading Adam Sandler’s bedroom, standing up on its hind legs, and p***ing in his face; it ends with Sandler simultaneously farting, sneezing, and burping while having sex with Salma Hayek. In between, the audience is treated to Nick Swardson s****ing in a Kmart and making out with a dog, David Spade sensuously licking a female bodybuilder’s bicep while wearing a John Oates costume, members of The Lonely Island rubbing their a***s on the soapy windshield of Kevin James’ car while wearing cheerleading uniforms, and Shaquille O’Neal filling a swimming pool with his urine.”
– Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / A.V. Club
“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. In fact, bouncing boobs, urine, projectile vomiting, hits to the crotch, testicles and the contents of diapers seem to be an endless source of fascination for Sandler.”
– Linda Barnard / The Toronto Star
“In the warped world of a Sandler comedy, Republican ‘family values’ are held in high esteem, even though children are encouraged to act violently, degrade and sexualize themselves, get drunk, act like idiots and laugh with the adults over their endless fart and poop jokes.”
– Bruce Kirkland / Toronto Sun
– William Bibbiani / Crave Online
“Farts, belches, poop and pee gags, guys leering at cheerleaders, women leering at male cheerleaders all have their place. It’s dated, it aims low and Sandler is, as always, self-aware enough to get that he’s pandering.”
– Roger Moore / McClatchy-Tribune News Service
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