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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?

1. Aniston cheated on him. With a guy named Dolph Lundgren. No, not THAT Dolph Lundgren. Just a different guy NAMED Dolph Lundgren.
2. Aniston's character is named "Devlin". It's not. He made that up. Why? Who the fuck knows?!?
3. 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.
4. 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.

Need I go on? The characters were all lying, stupid sacks of crap and dumber than a bag of hammers, placing themselves in hi-LAR-ious situations for no other reason than they just plain can't tell the truth about anything. I kept waiting for Mr. Furley or Mr. Roper to come out & ask Sandler if he was still gay. The movie was just like a bad sitcom and actually would have benefited from a laugh track.

I knew it was going to be a bad movie from the trailers but even I was unprepared for how bad it really was.

It's sad that whenever Adam makes an enjoyable movie it bombs, and when he makes a pile of shitburger it does well.

Punch drunk Love
Spanglish
Funny People

(didn't see Reign Over Me)

Sounds like Hugh Grant in About a Boy (similar premise - man tries to get one night stands by pretending he has a kid, but then finds out he really does love one of the women he meets and has to continue the lies or let things unravel).

Only, I actually enjoyed About a Boy.
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Wasn't Sandler in 50 first dates? I enjoyed that one.

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That ruined the movie already

I didn't have high aspiration for this movie. Especially with Aniston around.

When will she just give up movies and do sitcoms?

Jennifer Aniston is a poor man's Sandra Bullock who is a poor man's Julia Roberts.

It's downhill shit.

Adam Sandler is okay in movies, but he thinks his wacky stand-up act/personae will work on the big screen. Trouble is, he tends to pander to the lowest common denominator, which is what most movie goers are. So he makes a killing and keeps doing it. What he doesn't see is that his best ACTING (not money-making) roles are those where teh director put him in hand and made him tone it down. "Reign Over Me" is a great movie and is a good example.

Other comics have had this issue but realized what needed to be done to be an effective actor. Look at the stand-up of Jim Carrey and Steve Martin. A LOT like Adam Sandler's, but the difference in their acting is marked. Yes, Jim Carrey has has some wacky comedies, but he's also put out such things as "Man on the Moon", "The Truman Show" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Don't even get me started on the great movies Steve Martin has been in. Note when I say that I'm fully aware that Martin does mostly comedy. But he GETS the fact that movie comedy and stand-up/TV comedy are different things.

I like a lot of Sandler movies. Some of them are so dumb they are funny. Most of them are bad, bad, BAD movies - but fun. This one wasn't even fun and was just as dumb/bad.

Dave said:

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?

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I'm going to wait for when the movie comes out in a magazine next week.

An attractive girl is not enough to get me into a movie for any reason what so ever. If I wanted to see eye candy, there are plenty MUCH better outlets than a 2hour long torture fest of horrible cinema.

I am shocked, good sir. After watching those HI-larious trailers I was certain this would be the funniest movie to come out in years. Shocked, I tell you.

I wonder how many movie critics are going to use the exact line in the thread title

The Lovely Boehner said:

I wonder how many movie critics are going to use the exact line in the thread title

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Doesn't matter. I was first. All the rest are merely cheap imitations.

If you would have paid money for that I'd have said "you got Kurtz'd" but since it was free I have nothing.

Of those turning out for Bieber’s bigscreen debut, 84% were females, with 67% under the age of 25. Just Go With It played to a distinctly older audience, with 67% of those buying tickets over the age of 25. The Sandler-Aniston pairing played heavily to females, or 61%.

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Wow, I did not expect that women would be the driving demographic for an Adam Sandler film. Still hope Bieber crushes it though.

I saw Blue Valentine this weekend, and it was probably funnier than this

Krisken said:

It's sad that whenever Adam makes an enjoyable movie it bombs, and when he makes a pile of shitburger it does well.

Punch drunk Love
Spanglish
Funny People

(didn't see Reign Over Me)

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Funny People wasn't all that funny, this makes me a sad panda.
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I can always judge how bad a shitbomb comedy is going to be by how much it's promoted. You couldn't turn on the TV or look out the window the past month without seeing an advertisement for this thing being skywritten over your house.

Mathias said:

I can always judge how bad a shitbomb comedy is going to be by how much it's promoted. You couldn't turn on the TV or look out the window the past month without seeing an advertisement for this thing being skywritten over your house.

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So very true. It's like clockwork.

Hopes were granted: It beat Bieber

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1921998/news/1921998/box-office-guru-wrapup-sandler-beats-bieber/

I actually paid to see Sandler's last, the one with Chris Rock and Salma Hayek. That one was so damned awful, I swore off Sandler at the theater. Aniston stinks it up on screen anyway. She's pretty, but I've yet to see good acting.

Jiarn said:

Hopes were granted: It beat Bieber

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Jiarn said:

Hopes were granted: It beat Bieber

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1921998/news/1921998/box-office-guru-wrapup-sandler-beats-bieber/

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Sweet, the shit sandwich was beat out by the dirt sub.