Grown Ups Is Anything But...

Adam Sandler has done something I didn't think could be done again.  In all honesty I was hoping no one else would do it again, but Adam Sandler has managed to recreate the "Cannonball Run."  Oh I don't mean the film proper, there isn't one car crash in "Grown Ups"  I mean, the sheer sense of a whole bunch of buddies getting together and having a good time that they just happen to film.

Neither are good films in any technical or dramatic sense.  Sandler's film has the dramatic narrative drive of a snail with narcolepsy.  It's basically a bunch of friends coming together and having a series of events (adventures would be stretching it) during a 4th of July weekend.  Some are looking back, some are looking forward, some are looking at their kids.  But mostly they are making fart jokes and the like. 

Really this film should not work.  It's crass.  it's annoying.  It does nothing.  But I get the same contact vibe from this film that I get with I watch Burt and Dom (as opposed to Burt and Ernie) pal around.  It's seemingly a real thing too, I just read that Sandler was passing out 200,000 cars to his buds here. 

(making big orphan kitty eyes)
Mistah Sandlaw, can I be youw fweind?

Anyhoo, the only real fly in the ointment is Rob Schneider.  The man kills every everything he does and doesn't have the decency to bury his actorial wastes.  It doesn't help that he looks like an elvis (elvish?) impersonator cum garden gnome.  On the other hand Chris Rock is always a live wire and both Kevin James and Adam Sandler are affable.