Movie Review: Grown Ups

Ever since last year, Hollywood was lacking the amount, and quality of comedy movies, I don't know if the problem was with movies like the lukewarm '17 Again', or the slow and boring 'Funny People', but 2009 lacked comedy quality, it also lacked movie quality in general, as for this year, which was a redeeming year for movies in general, still lacked the amount of direct comedy movies, the only comedy movies that is considered 'direct' this year was 'Grown Ups' which stars the 1991 Saturday Night Live cast, but did it live up with its expectations? Did it deserve to be the only direct comedy to come out this summer? And more importantly, was it entertaining enough to be a comedy worth watching?

Grown Ups has a very simple plot, which is okay for only direct comedy movies, which is about five men who where friends as children, gathering together due to their basketball coach's death, and meeting each other's families for the first time.

As I mentioned, Grown Ups had a simple plot, which Is okay for direct comedy movies because people don't want comedies to have any twists in the plot, comedies are made to make people laugh, but allot of comedies try their best to get themselves a simple plot, but then end up messing up throughout the entire movie, but thankfully, that was not the case with Grown Ups, which came strong on most of its expectations.

Grown Ups had allot of jokes, there where funny jokes, and unfunny jokes, but the majority of jokes in the movie where funny, jokes such as Rob Schneider's character's wife commenting on one of the songs played in a restaurant, Kevin James' character's son being breast fed at 48 months(4 years), all the kids saying that they want to get wasted, after Adam Sandler's character 'explains' what wasted means, and allot more great jokes in the movie, as for the unfunny jokes there was Arrow Roulette which was funny the first time, then unfunny the second, Adam Sandler's character telling his Nanny to study was a bit funny, but got repetitive, also Kevin James' character putting the KFC bucket on his head was very unfunny, but other than those few bad jokes there is really nothing to worry about in the movie.

Grown Ups is generally a very strong movie, despite some repetitive and unfunny jokes, the movie is the best comedy I've seen since 2008, it gave me what I wanted in a comedy m, which is just a simple plot with allot of funny jokes, it reached and maybe surpassed all my expectations, and it redeemed the comedy genre after an entire year and a half that had very few, but boring comedies.

*Movie Rating:-

-Acting(out of 6)= 5
-Story(out of 8)= 7
-Plot(out of 8)= 7
-Actions(out of 6)= 5
-Effects(out of 4)= 3
-Character Developement(out of 8)= 6
*Overall Rating(out of 40)= 33
4 Stars
*Rating System:
0- 7= 0 Stars
8- 14= 1 Star
15- 21= 2 Stars
22- 30= 3 Stars
31- 35= 4 Stars
36- 40= 5 Stars