Grown Ups

With my job, I’m sometimes that person who’s ripping your ticket and guiding you to the auditorium that your film is playing in. When I saw “Grown Ups” on the name I’d say, “How mature of you.” It was my little joke – because if anyone knows most ‘Happy Madison’ productions are anything but mature films...

And just to clarify, I’m not always found of the ‘potty humour’ that can sometimes be the result of getting Adam Sandler and his buds together on the screen. I guess I am getting kind of old and ‘above it’.

However for this film I was happily impressed that they kept the stupidity to a minimum and they had developed a good base story line. That’s not to say that there wasn’t humour – the film was loaded with funny moments, nearly half of which had been given away in previews. But that left half to be discovered as the story unfolded.

The concept was nice: five best friends getting back together after years of drifting apart. Each character was well developed and unique. But what I really liked was that it took the differences from our (my) generation growing up and our children’s, with all the advances in technology, and it tried to bridge the gap.

With the strong cast that this movie had going for itself I was expecting nothing less than great comedy and good performances. I got what I paid for.

All in all, if you’re up for a little rude humour with an equal bit of heart, this film might be good for you. However, there is nothing so great that you’d have to run out to watch it on the big screen, in fact it will be coming to video in no time – so it could wait. Or it would make a good cheep theatre film.

Either way I give it a solid 3 stars!

Until next escape,

Aviva B.