Grown Ups follows five childhood friends who won a basketball championship under a coach of theirs. This coach was a close figure in their life. Now they have all grown up to be successful or not so much but the coach dies and his funeral all brings them back together along with their families. Soon they are all staying at an old lake house from their childhood where many boyish antics occur.
This film is one of those comedies that is not only ridiculous but incredibly stupid. For the majority the humor is immature, gross, or just plain wrong. On occasion the humor takes a direction that causes to film to actually be funny, but rarely. A large ensemble cast is set up with noticeable names; Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Rob Schneider. However the talents of some of these actors are wasted. It's a story about learning to grow up that doesn't quite get to anything good and seems to skimp around the point a bit too much. It basically feels like a reminiscent film and trying to remember what it was like to be twelve except at the age of forty.
However, Grown Ups is a good morality tale relevant to the current dilemma faced with the new generation of kids growing up in a technological world. During the film most of the kids are spoiled, stuck up brats. They soon learn that there is more to life than video games, cell phones, and all else that relies on technology and discover the great things that older generations grew up on. And it does have an important message that we all need to take responsibility when we get older, not just live in the past. But even so, that doesn't save this sort of chuckle comedy from its drastic fall into immaturity.
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