However, strip away the rare moments of humility and championing of small town life and you're left with what is simply a series of sexist and scatological vignettes...

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 7, 2023

This film incited more facepalms and head-shakes than laughs, and the script feels like something Sandler could have scribbled on the palm of his hand.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Grown Ups 2 won't please a good majority of the film critics, but it's not a film for the film critics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

It all ends rather politely with an 80s costume party, and rather worryingly with the possibility there might be a Grown Ups 3.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2020

It all seems like a sad excuse for Sandler to find work for every friend he has ever had. If Sandler was any kind of friend, he would have put these people in a better movie.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2019

I still don't understand why they made the first one, much less a sequel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 11, 2018

This "comedy" didn't even make me crack a hint of a smile.

Full Review | Original Score: F- | Nov 14, 2018

The first film was a bloated sack of puerile sexist jokes, and moronic Adam Sandler bits. . .But the first iteration of Grown Ups made money (a lot of it) so now there is another one.

Full Review | Aug 17, 2017

It's not terribly deep and insightful, as moments in The Way, Way Back are, but Grown Ups 2 is comfortable and, at times, genuinely hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 11, 2016

Few of the characters' actions make any sense, be it in the context of Hollywood clichés, real life, or anything even resembling reality.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 12, 2016

It's a shame how lazy and pointless Grown Ups 2 is.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/10 | Jul 20, 2015

Laziness wafts from the screen like a foul odor.

Full Review | May 5, 2015

if Grown Ups was a laid-back mid-nineties SNL reunion disguised as a movie about small-town friends reconnecting, then Grown Ups 2 is a stroll through an alternate-universe Saturday Night Live retirement community.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2014

Sandler's films have always been stupid, but the early stuff is pretty harmless; here the jokes almost always come at the expense of someone else, the kind of needless bullying one expects of a YouTube comment section.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2014

[A] slothful, indulgent sequel that sees a once-great screen comedian hit self-inflicted Sandlergeddon.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2014

Rob Schneider, the butt of many jokes in the first Grown-Ups, is nowhere to be seen. Salma Hayek, as Lenny's wife, looks understandably tense and irritable throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 28, 2014

The single consistent throughline Grown Ups 2 seems to have, in fact, is its bigotry.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jul 28, 2014

[A] witless, clueless and utterly pointless sequel to a comedy that pulled in boatloads of cash, but was beloved by absolutely no one.

Full Review | Original Score: D- | Jul 28, 2014

The only good news is that the five friends in the original film have been whittled down to four.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2014

Transgender jokes, fat jokes (always James, happy to look stupid), homeliness jokes, mama's boy jokes -- the picture was made by people who like to put down people, and it was made for people who like to tease others or watch others be insulted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 28, 2014