JUST GO WITH IT

Starring:
Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck, Dave Matthews and Nicole Kidman

Director:
Dennis Dugan

Running Time:
117 mins

Out to buy on Blu-Ray/DVD 30/05/11

 

"I can't wait to Twitter this to all my friends."

Danny (Sandler) had the perfect hock to get any woman he wanted. He would pretend he was married but in an abused relationship and it had been working for years. When he meets Palmer (Decker) however, everything changes and he finally finds someone he thinks he can settle down with, until she finds his wedding ring. Panicking he lies and says that he is about to get a divorce but she wants to meet his wife. Asking his assistant Katherine (Aniston) to pretend to be the money-grabbing harlot he described, Danny’s lies end up costing him a fortune and a trip to Hawaii.

Adam Sandler is a comedic superstar in the US and every film he releases makes money but you have to ask why?

Former Saturday Night Live (SNL) star and stand up comic Adam Sandler has become one of the biggest box office comedy draws in America and around the world. Making his name by been an overly aggressive, shouting man who just happens to be misunderstood and is really a very nice guy for over fifteen years. Hits like ‘Billy Madison’, ‘Happy Gilmore’, ‘The Waterboy’, ‘Big Daddy’ and ‘Anger Management’ followed a very similar formula with Sandler’s character overcoming something to become the hero and his fans lapped it up. He branched out into more ‘serious’ films, trying to stray away from this usual formula in films like ‘Spanglish’ and his best performance in ‘Punch Drunk Love’ but when it comes to naming Adam Sandler’s most accomplished films he has to co-star with one person and she is Drew Barrymore. In ’50 First Dates’ and his best movie to date ‘The Wedding Singer’, Adam Sandler showed his true potential as a romantic comedy lead and a fine comedian, it is just a shame that he has lost that.

Over the past few years an Adam Sandler movie has become a byword for an ‘Average Movie’. ‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry’, ‘You Don’t Mess With The Zohan’, ‘Bedtime Stories’ and the truly dreadful ‘Grown Ups’ has seen him pander to the Hollywood system, not taking risks or even trying to push himself. Even when he appeared in Judd Apatow’s ‘Funny People’, his presence made the film less dramatic and less funny than it should have been. Desperately in need of a reinvention or some dramatic action to pull him away from the stale and stagnant formulaic pit he has found himself in, Adam Sandler has instead swam deeper into the mire with ‘Just Go For It’ and he has dragged poor Jennifer Aniston with him.

Here we are expected to believe that Adam Sandler could be a renowned plastic surgeon called Danny, who, despite his wealth and social position, can only get women by pretending to be in a bad marriage. When he actually falls for a stunning beautiful schoolteacher called Palmer however, he decides to leave that all behind, that is until Palmer finds his wedding ring and demands an explanation. Instead of telling the truth, he says he getting a divorce but Palmer says he wants to meet his soon to be ex-wife. Desperate to keep Palmer in his life, Danny asked his assistant Katherine, played by Jennifer Aniston, to pretend to be his wife. A series of lies follow but as Danny and Katherine try to keep up the lie, they become closer. Throw in a stupid rivalry story, which sees a cameo by Nicole Kidman, of all people and the suspension of disbelief that is needed to believe that someone who is as stunning as model-turned-actress Brooklyn Decker falling for Adam Sandler straight away and you have a film that is so stunningly average that you would rather have done all of those little, nagging jobs that need doing rather than waste your time with this.

Adam Sandler equals very average movies. While Jennifer Aniston and the gorgeous Brooklyn Decker deserve a lot more, Adam Sandler himself needs to get Drew Barrymore on the phone, hire a decent written and return to the joys of the tone of ‘The Wedding Singer’ because ‘Just Go With It’ is as average as he can go.

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