Dave
Staff member
So I won free tickets to the premier of this new Adam Sandler movie called "Just Go With It".
Here's the premise:
Adam Sandler is a rich plastic surgeon who wears a wedding ring and tells a sob story to get hot women to sleep with him. One night at a party he puts the ring in his pocket and meets the woman of his dreams. In a really poor edit or stretched sit-com timewarp, they fall in love and have sex on the beach. they are professing love for each other and it seems like they've known one another for about an hour. She discovers that he has a wedding ring in his pocket and freaks out. Imagine! This man she just met and had sex with after a party may have lied!!
Anyway, Sandler decides that she's really the one so he does what any man would do - he makes up a fake marriage to his secretary, Jennifer Aniston. But they are getting divorced so it's okay. The new girl? Wants to meet Aniston to make sure Sandler isn't lying. Let's not even get into the fact that if it works the new chick would not be able to visit him at his work due to his lie incorporating his freaking secretary!
So Aniston goes along with this for some reason and inadvertently lets out that she has kids. Sandler immediately says they are his. Which is another lie for no good reason.
From there they go to Hawaii for reasons that are too stupid to go into. While there Sandler realizes after working with Aniston for 15 years that she's pretty hot. Really?!?
This movie blows. I give it 2 stars out of 10 and those 2 stars are for a couple of funny moments. But the acting was TERRIBLE almost all the way around. You can always tell when Adam has a good director who pulls him back from his natural tendency of thinking everything is a Saturday Night Live skit. These directors who hold him in check get things like "Reign Over Me" and "Punch Drunk Love". The rest of his movies he's too busy TRYING to be funny instead of just acting and letting the material do the work. Movie comedy is different than TV or stage funny but nobody ever told Sandler that because movie patrons are idiots.
Aniston does a decent job with the part she's given, but she looks like she doesn't want to be there sometimes and I can't say I blame her.
The new hot chick? Has NO acting talent. She's got a hot ass & great tits but that's her entire draw. Don't get me wrong, it's a damned good draw and I could watch that draw all day...but the part itself was dumb. She's supposed to be a teacher and she says she always knows when someone is telling the truth or lying to her and there are a NUMBER of times when Sandler tells obvious lies and she just takes them as fact...because the plot (such as it is) would fall apart. What lies you say?
I knew it was going to be a bad movie from the trailers but even I was unprepared for how bad it really was.
Here's the premise:
Adam Sandler is a rich plastic surgeon who wears a wedding ring and tells a sob story to get hot women to sleep with him. One night at a party he puts the ring in his pocket and meets the woman of his dreams. In a really poor edit or stretched sit-com timewarp, they fall in love and have sex on the beach. they are professing love for each other and it seems like they've known one another for about an hour. She discovers that he has a wedding ring in his pocket and freaks out. Imagine! This man she just met and had sex with after a party may have lied!!
Anyway, Sandler decides that she's really the one so he does what any man would do - he makes up a fake marriage to his secretary, Jennifer Aniston. But they are getting divorced so it's okay. The new girl? Wants to meet Aniston to make sure Sandler isn't lying. Let's not even get into the fact that if it works the new chick would not be able to visit him at his work due to his lie incorporating his freaking secretary!
So Aniston goes along with this for some reason and inadvertently lets out that she has kids. Sandler immediately says they are his. Which is another lie for no good reason.
From there they go to Hawaii for reasons that are too stupid to go into. While there Sandler realizes after working with Aniston for 15 years that she's pretty hot. Really?!?
This movie blows. I give it 2 stars out of 10 and those 2 stars are for a couple of funny moments. But the acting was TERRIBLE almost all the way around. You can always tell when Adam has a good director who pulls him back from his natural tendency of thinking everything is a Saturday Night Live skit. These directors who hold him in check get things like "Reign Over Me" and "Punch Drunk Love". The rest of his movies he's too busy TRYING to be funny instead of just acting and letting the material do the work. Movie comedy is different than TV or stage funny but nobody ever told Sandler that because movie patrons are idiots.
Aniston does a decent job with the part she's given, but she looks like she doesn't want to be there sometimes and I can't say I blame her.
The new hot chick? Has NO acting talent. She's got a hot ass & great tits but that's her entire draw. Don't get me wrong, it's a damned good draw and I could watch that draw all day...but the part itself was dumb. She's supposed to be a teacher and she says she always knows when someone is telling the truth or lying to her and there are a NUMBER of times when Sandler tells obvious lies and she just takes them as fact...because the plot (such as it is) would fall apart. What lies you say?
- Aniston cheated on him. With a guy named Dolph Lundgren. No, not THAT Dolph Lundgren. Just a different guy NAMED Dolph Lundgren.
- Aniston's character is named "Devlin". It's not. He made that up. Why? Who the fuck knows?!?
- His daughter's name is Kiki Dee. Why did he say that? Because he couldn't remember the names of the kids of the women he's worked with for 15 years.
- When the new chick meets the kids the little girl starts talking in a terrible British accent. Instead of saying, "She is taking acting lessons and loves doing accents." they say - you guessed it! - that she had been boarded in Great Britain for years.
I knew it was going to be a bad movie from the trailers but even I was unprepared for how bad it really was.
