Grown Ups was nothing special. As with most comedies, it was funny, it delivered cheap laughs for cheap, well, not cheap because the tickets were ten &!@#^&* dollars!
Lets start with the parts of it I DID like, There were too many Saturday Night Live alumni to count, and they didn't kill anyone.
Notice how that was a very short list. The only kind of humor in the movie was a bunch of guys cracking insults, and getting shot with arrows. They made fun of old and ugly people too much, and every child in the movie was a total ass. If all that wasn't enough, someone said, "hey, let's try and put a message in this thing to get some character development!" Well, there was one part at the beginning where I thought the message was to try your hardest, then, three quarters of the way in, they fully stop the plot, and have a talk about how love involves some anger as well. It didn't even make sense!
Now you may have noticed that I didn't put an overview of the plot up, well because of the lack of a message and no character development, all I can tell you is that a bunch of friends get together after their former coach dies.
I only said Grown Ups was "nothing special" because it was funny, I would have said it was bad if it wasn't funny. So, at the end, Grown Ups lacks anything beyond wise-cracking humor and I would call it a rental, don't waste your money in a movie theater for this one.
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