Unfortunately, and this is the crucial problem, it’s never funny, just cruel. From Tim Meadows in the world’s worst balding wig (you can see wrinkles in the bald cap), two characters with terrible fake noses, a guy with a lazy eye, Steve Buscemi, lots of doughy naked flesh, Nick Swardson with a violent bowel movement into a fake toilet at a Kmart, bald jokes, ugly jokes, short jokes, tall jokes… if you can mock someone for something, it gets mocked in this film.

And, surprisingly, there are a whole lot of body oddities to be mined. The film staggers listlessly from scene to scene, lingering well after the last ‘punchline’ before finding some other new bodily function or physical mutant to distract the audience with. Sandler talks to his children, Sandler drives a bus, frat bros menace the middle-aged stars of the movie… every scene seems to take entirely too long, and to call the film a slog is to disrespect the noble peat bog. This scene may take only five minutes or so of screen time, but it feels like it’s a good 15 and counting. For instance, the film opens with Adam Sandler and various members of his movie family getting urinated on by a CGI deer. The film is only 110 minutes (plus 20 minutes of trailers), but it feels interminable. Grown Ups 2 is one of the longest movie experiences I have ever been through.

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