A drunken Marcus plays another game of arrow roulette, and the crowd flees in panic. As the families watch the Fourth of July fireworks, Lenny tells Roxanne that he let Dickie's family win to get him off his case, and felt that his own family needed to know what losing feels like. The game culminates in Lenny and Greg facing Dickie and his son, but Lenny misses the game-deciding shot. On their last day at the lake house, Lenny and his friends agree to a rematch against Dickie, Robideaux, Muzby, Tardio, and Malcolm. Gloria helps everyone reconcile, and Lenny and Kurt offer to help Eric start a new business.
Everyone comes clean about the state of their lives: Roxanne confronts Lenny for canceling their flight to Milan before they left home, and he admits that he wanted their family to have a normal vacation Deanne confronts Kurt for spending time with the Feders' nanny Rita, but Kurt retaliates by pointing out how she under-appreciates him Eric reveals that he was laid off from his job and Rob admits what everybody already knows – that he wears a toupee. The next day, Rob attacks Marcus, mistakenly believing that he slept with Jasmine, and Marcus admits to feeling insecure compared to his happily married friends. Returning to the lake house, Lenny teaches his son to shoot a bank shot, and the couples end the night dancing together. At the zipline attraction, Lenny's group meet up with Dickie and his former teammates including Wiley, who is severely injured after crashing into a shed while sliding down the zipline by his feet. The families cause chaos throughout the park: the wives attract a bodybuilder, then jeer at his high-pitched Canadian accent Rob assaults slide attendant Norby when he insults Bridget, and Eric ignores Donna's warning about a chemical in the children's pool that turns urine blue. Lenny is thrilled to find the kids playing with cup-and-string telephones Roxanne realizes the positive impact the weekend is having on their children, and tells Lenny to cancel their Milan trip and stay at the lake instead.Įveryone visits Water Wizz where Marcus flirts with Jasmine and Amber after buying them skimpy bikinis, and Eric teaches Bean to drink real milk. The men play “ arrow roulette”, shooting an arrow straight into the air and Rob wins by not running for cover, but the arrow impales his left foot. He pushes Greg and Keithie to play outside and runs into his childhood opponent Dickie, who claims Lenny's foot was out of bounds when he made the winning shot.Īs the friends spread Buzzer's ashes, Rob breaks down over his failed marriages and reveals that he has invited his estranged daughters Jasmine, Amber, and Bridget to visit. Lenny rents the Earnshaw family's lake house for everyone to stay over Fourth of July weekend, though his family is leaving early to attend Roxanne's fashion show in Milan. When Buzzer dies, the five friends reunite for his funeral in their hometown with their families. Rob is married to his much older fourth wife Gloria.
Kurt is a stay-at-home father, has two children named Andre and Charlotte, his wife Deanne is pregnant with their third child, and her mother Ronzoni lives with them. Eric claims to co-own a lawn furniture company and has two children named Donna and Bean. Thirty years later, Lenny is a wealthy and successful Hollywood talent agent, married to fashion designer Roxanne and has three children named Greg, Keithie, and Becky. They celebrate at a lake house with their coach Robert "Buzzer" Ferdinando. It’s dated, it aims low and Sandler is, as always, self-aware enough to get that he’s pandering.In 1978, childhood friends Lenny Feder, Eric Lamonsoff, Kurt McKenzie, Marcus Higgins, and Rob Hilliard win their junior high basketball championship. Childhood pal Eric (Kevin James) runs a body shop, Kurt (Chris Rock) is a cable guy, and Marcus (David Spade) has just learned he’s a deadbeat dad.įarts, belches, poop and pee gags, guys leering at cheerleaders, women leering at male cheerleaders all have their place.Īs does every comic, from ancient Norm Crosby to creaking Colin Quinn, as an ice cream vendor who gives a nice speech justifying Sandler’s entire farts-over-art career. It’s another pointless romp through Sandlerland - where the women are buxom, the kids have catchphrases and the jokes are below average.īasically, the sequel to the hit “Grown Ups” finds our Hollywood pal Lenny Feder (Sandler), his wife (Salma Hayek) and brood moved back to his home town. The gang’s all here for “Grown Ups 2,” Adam Sandler’s latest lowbrow make-work project for all the ex-jocks, jockcasters, “Saturday Night Live” has-beens and other hangers-on he keeps on payroll. Rated: PG-13 for crude and suggestive content, language and some male rear nudity.