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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliNo one in their right mind goes to an Adam Sandler movie for any reason other than to laugh, and Grown Ups delivers.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFor a while, the movie looks like "Couples Retreat" or a Tyler Perry house party, only instead of cookie-cutter conflicts, everyone just grows happier and more relaxed.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineSteve RamosBoxoffice MagazineSteve RamosCurrent Saturday Night Live (SNL) comic Will Forte may have bombed in the recent SNL spin-off "MacGruber," but a dream team of SNL alums, including ringleader Adam Sandler, put the luster back in the SNL reputation with the audience-pleasing, all-ages comedy Grown Ups.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA pleasant, genial, good-hearted, sometimes icky comedy that's like spending a weekend with well-meaning people you don't want to see again any time real soon.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe only people humiliated, really, are older people and heavy people and nerds and vegans and black people and mothers who breast-feed their 4-year-olds. Everybody else gets a pass.
- 40Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesBeneath all the forced hilarity lies an awful fear of aging--and Sandler is only 43! This is gonna be rough.
- 38Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreThese guys set out to make a movie where they could crack each other up. At this late date, they can't even manage that.
- 30Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonWhile Sandler has never trafficked in epigrammatic wit, there's a difference between, say, Billy Madison's "Of course I peed my pants--everyone my age pees their pants" or "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry's" shakedown of hetero squeamishness, and this lazy stuff--the difference between smart-dumb and plain-dumb.
- 30Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzDumb, lazy, obvious and largely pointless.
- 20Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovGrown Ups is exactly, beat for beat, what the previews would have you believe: a depressingly predictable, two-chuckle deconstruction of what Sandler sees as the modern American male.