Adam Sandler is at it again. If you would have pulled me
aside in the 90s and told me that Adam Sandler would end up being a complete
joke who would systematically put out the worst comedy to hit theaters every year,
year after year, I would have said you were crazy. There is just no way. This
guy was Theo’s Jew fro’d friend on The
Cosby Show, he was that guy from the greatest game show of all time Remote Control, he was Billy Madison… he
was Opera Man for Christ’s sake! Unfortunately, all of those highs are distant
memories. Sandler starred in Judd Apatow’s latest film Funny People playing an aging comic who lost his way both
personally and professionally, making a string of embarrassing movies and
ultimately ending up a miserable, pathetic man. It turns out there wasn’t any
self-aware realizations that led to Sandler taking that role, he’s perfectly
comfortable making terrible movies from here on out. Just Go With It isn’t as bad as last year’s aborted pooh baby Grownups, but it’s insufferably terrible
in its own ways. Sandler is still shoe-horning all of his unfunny buddies into
his movies, he’s still trying to jerk tears in the least deft, most ham-handed
ways possible, and he’s still refusing to make movies that have meticulously
written and comedy filled scripts in favor of vapid, stupid pieces of garbage
that will allow him to lazily improvise whatever nonsensical, wacky noises pop
into his head. Sandler on the job might as well be Sandler sleepwalking. This
movie has a couple things working for it. Jennifer Aniston plays the least off
putting shrew she’s played in a movie in a long while, and Brooklyn Decker
looks better than anybody ever in a too small bikini; but other than that
everything about this one will make you want to punch your crotch in fury. It
makes no sense, the characters are stupid and unlikable, there’s a couple of
annoying child actors, and it never gets so much as a smirk out of you.
