Grown Ups 2

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “For Sandler, it's not just when he grew up. It's the garden of idiotic innocence, something that, in Grown Ups 2, he is helping to keep alive.”

  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 75

• “Like its predecessor, Grown Ups 2 is proudly retrograde, both in its relentless deluge of toilet humour and the way it bear-hugs some good old-fashioned conservative values.”

  Adam Nayman, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 50

• “A movie of fools, by fools, for fools, Grown Ups 2 is easily forgotten, which isn’t as bad a feature as you’d think.”

  Laremy Legel, Film.com · 44

• “You know what you’re going to get, and that is, indeed, what Sandler delivers. It’s juvenile, it’s obvious and it’s crass. But with Sandler at the helm, at least it’s as easy to like as it is to forget.”

  Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News · 40

• “It’s another pointless romp through Sandlerland — where the women are buxom, the kids have catch-phrases and the jokes are below average.”

  Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service · 38