The movie itself feels no longer like a homemade video aimed at the cast and more like a movie made for entertaining the audience. Each character feels unique and the entire town feels alive and full of energy essentially making them a memorable community of characters. Sure you got the main cast to mainly focus on, but you also got all the other unique and comedic characters throughout the town showing up here and there throughout the film too give some comedic bits, add some advice or just be seen hanging around. Many may disagree with this, but I found that the way this community was done felt a lot like how The Simpsons community is done. The family relationships are greatly improved thanks to this but it’s not just the families that get some good development, but the entire town community. The oversensitive “special” scenes have now been wisely spread out into special moments between the comedy breaks giving up decent character/family development without any long, unfunny, out of place scenes. The editing is also superior compared to the original for example one dinner scene plays off the dinner of over six households in a well mannered format that pays off with some good jokes and some decent character development. I was surprised at how quickly the film’s pacing moved since the first had been such a chore to trudge through. No longer do we have any long awkward pauses or breaks between jokes instead being replaced with good, well-timed comedy strait from beginning to the very end. For one the comedy is much better timed and paced. ![]() Grown Ups 2 is like the electrician here to fix the faulty wiring that messed up Grown Ups. The movie also gets way too touchy at times, pausing the comedy for long periods of those “special” scenes where one of the characters learns a valuable lesson about family or friendship (which in a movie with crotch kicks, farts, and fat jokes just feels too awkward and out of place.) ![]() ![]() In the original, nearly every joke is played off with the cast laughing at it like the scenes happening were non-scripted (heck, maybe it was improvised), and aimed more at the cast and crew rather than the viewers, (imagine if one of your acquaintance at work invited you over to watch a home video of him/her as a 5 year old funny for him, boring for you). That’s all well and good, if you’re able to pull off the comedy correctly which as I mentioned above, was as stale and awkward as a stranger’s homemade movies. It felt less like Adam Sandler and his crew were trying to make a film and more like they were just out to have a fun time with each other. One of the things that really didn't work for the original Grown Ups was its comedy. The events of Grown Ups 2 all occur in a single, crazy day, where we observe the daily lives of Lenny (Adam Sandler), Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), Marcus (David Spade), their families and the community that lives around them.
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