Grown Ups

Pros: 1. The film contains a heart-warming message to value family and family-time, in addition to not taking your loved ones for granted. Which is what you want from this type of comedy.

2. Adam Sandler (Lenny Feder), Kevin James (Eric Lamonsoff), Chris Rock (Kurt McKenzie), David Spade (Marcus Higgins) and Rob Schneider (Rob Hilliard) all have amazing chemistry together, it's obvious they're good friends off screen.

3. The comedy entails the friends ripping on each other. Not only does it produce hilarious moments, but it feels firmly grounded in reality as that's how male friends are.

Cons: 1. The stock score enlisted to ram home emotions the film wants you to feel is annoying and insulting as the film clearly feels the audience incapable of understanding context.

2. All of the main characters get together because of their high school coach's death, but after the first 15 minutes, it's quickly forgotten about. It's obviously used as a cheap plot device to get the movie going as it has no lasting impact on the movie.

3. Most of the soundtrack is stale and seems as if it was used solely to fill up the silence.

4. Steve Buscemi (Wiley) is criminally underused as he's just brought in as a minor side character towards the end.

5. The messaging, though commendable, is rather forced via its execution.

Like films of the past such as Meatballs, Police Academy, Summer Rental and many others, Grown Ups delivers in SNL style comedy. with a star studded cast of Adam Sandler, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello, Steve Buscemi and Tim Meadows this original style comedy is fair.

A childhood basketball coach dies and the boys and their wives get together for a week to say goodbye and reminisce about the good old days and along the way teach their kids what being a kid back then meant. There is old style humor that if you grew up in the 80's you would remember.

It is a fun film for adults who recognize the meaning behind friendship and the childhood they had. I give this a solid 6 of 10.

This is a comedic low brow 'The Big Chill' played for laughs and trying to make some points about parent and kids and relationships and material things are not important starring some rich Hollywood actors.

The death of their old basketball coach causes some of the winning basketball team of 1978 to reunite. Adam Sandler is a rich Hollywood agent with a hot wife, Salma Hayek, spoilt kids and a nanny. Kevin James has a 4 year old who still drinks breast milk, Chris Rock has a wife who works whilst he is a stay at home dad, Rob Schneider lives with an older woman and has 3 kids from previous relationships who turn, two of them simply to provide eye candy for the audience.

We have some gross out jokes such as urinating in a water-park pool, the dead coach's ashes being thrown over food, a boy breast feeding etc. Some spoilt brats too busy texting and wanting the finer things in life on demand.

Over the weekend the kids enjoy the simpler things in life and learn to get along with other kids and grow up a bit. The adults too learn to value their loved ones but in a slight story some of the 'issues' come out of the blue.

Still it is sporadic fun, watchable and Steve Buscemi pops up to provide the biggest laughs.

For the beautiful bond of friendship! Watch it to cheer yourself, laughters and deep smiles.

Very mixed reviews on here, but just got around to watching this movie for first time. It's light hearted and quite enjoyable. The mix of characters keeps you engaged until the end.