Grown ups 2 what is it about

While talking to her husband, a woman talks about hormonal changes in her body and how she is going through menopause.

An elderly woman tells her middle-aged son that she and his father had sex in a toilet at a football game. A man pretending to be a gym instructor instructs a class of mainly middle-aged women to turn around, bend over and slap their own buttocks while he goggles at them.

The women make lurid sexual comments towards the younger man. The man responds that he is gay. The transvestite makes mention of having a penis. Alcohol, drugs and other substances Grown Ups 2 shows some use of substances. People drink a lot at parties, out of bottles and while driving. Parents drink irresponsibly. Kevin James plays the owner of an auto body shop who sneaks away from his wife Maria Bello to visit his mother Georgia Engel and watch soap operas. David Spade is the lone single guy of the foursome.

He's a deadbeat dad with a teenage son by a woman he charmingly calls Hiccups McGee. The boy towers over his scrawny father and brandishes a knife.

He later spray-paints graffiti on a local college frat house. Adorable, he is not. The film opens with a sleeping Sandler waking to find a huge stag as in deer standing by his bed. Add your rating See all 68 kid reviews.

Coming home is loads of fun, but there seems to be a new posse in town in the form of frat boys who've taken over the guys' old roost.

Plus, the bully who once terrorized Lenny is around, as are old frenemies. A few bits might make audiences guffaw -- one involving a naked man landing on top of another after diving into a lake, for example -- but otherwise, this movie just doesn't feel grown-up enough. The humor is immature, dated, corny, and tired. Are we really still supposed to laugh at poop and fart jokes and Chia Pet references? Paging ! Plus, it's downright sexist at times not to mention unoriginal, as in the case of the harried mom of a toddler who has to look down his diaper to see how "bad" his 2 is.

It's such a waste, considering the rapport of the stars. Sandler and his buddies really do have great chemistry, which means Grown Ups 2 isn't a total waste of time. The other bright spot? Seeing Taylor Lautner overplay as the villain. But it's too bad they aren't working with better material. Families can talk about Grown Ups 2 's core foursome -- what keeps them together through the years?

Does their friendship seem enviable, immature, or a little of both? What roles do women play in the film? Do they conform to stereotypes? How about the men? Is nudity and scatological humor a requirement in films like this one? Who is that type of humor intended to appeal to? How can you tell? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.

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The star rating reflects overall quality. There is an even bigger, more self-congratulatory relieving-of-self in "2," and blue fills the whole pool. This time the perpetrator is Shaquille O'Neal. No comment. More creative, if you like this sort of thing, is a new trick Eric Kevin James has created: he can combine belching, sneezing and farting, and even has a word for it: burpsnart, or something. These images stick out because not much else happens, despite a huge '80s theme party, the main purpose of which seems to be to let the guys acknowledge that they're getting on in years.

Pranks in K-Mart are featured; it's suburbia, and oddly the film doesn't make much use of nearby nature except for The Quarry, where some frat boys who want it all to themselves force Lenny and pals to jump buck-nekid into the water.

This may have some purpose in the film: to point out, as the frat boys do, that all the main characters have blue collar jobs except Lenny, and that some bonded guys are even more obnoxious than Lenny and his friends. Marriage — its comforts and complaints — is the real topic of the film anyway.

The married guys are hubbies with a s touch, scurrying around and placating The Wife. Lenny, for all his material glories, is what used to be called hen-pecked. That's a non-p. Lenny takes up most of center stage in "2". He's celebrated and admired throughout.