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Just Go With It starring Adam Sandler & Jennifer Aniston

Posted on July 3, 2011 Written by ripitup

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Just Go With It starring Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker and Dave Matthews
Just Go With It starring Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker and Dave Matthews. Image via soundtrack-movie.com

Successful plastic surgeon Danny (Adam Sandler) has found the perfect way of picking up pretty women without having his heart broken: he tells them that he is married to an abusive woman. He wears a gold band to complete the touch, and he is more than happy with the results. But one day he meets his dream woman, Palmer (Brooklyn Decker).

This 20-something gorgeous math teacher is fun, nice and sexy. And she also falls for him. But when she dumps him because he “is married”, Danny goes to his assistant/best friend Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) for help. She tells him to tell Palmer that he is getting divorced. This wins Palmer over, but she insists on meeting this soon-to-be ex-wife. So Danny makes up an ex-wife, and enlists Katherine’s help to pretend to be her. Katherine plays the part of the annoying yet stunning wife perfectly…until her kids call.

Now Palmer thinks that there are children involved and she wants to meet them too. Single mother Katherine has no choice but lend her children to Denny.  Just when Danny thinks he has succeeded, Katherine’s little boy blackmails him into taking all of them to Hawaii for vacation. Things get even more ridiculous when Danny’s obnoxious cousin (Nick Swardson) shows up, pretending to be Katherine’s German lover.

So can Danny handle two very smart kids, his girlfriend, his cousin and well his emerging feelings for Katherine? Oh, add Katherine’s college nemesis Devlin (Nicole Kidman) and her equally competitive husband (Dave Matthews) to the equation and we are all in for a riot…

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Just Go With It is a highly entertaining romantic comedy. Sure, it is very typical in many aspects. Of course you know who Danny will end up with. Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are their typical romantic comedy selves. But, hey- you knew all this already from the trailer. If you are looking for a different film that will reinvent the wheel, this is not for you. And while the film is mostly a comedy, it is not hilarious. It doesn’t often make you laugh out loud. But it makes you smile, grin, cringe and have fun. It is also a lot of fun to see the front man of Dave Matthews band – Dave Matthews –  act, and it is even better to have Nicole Kidman play the highly irritating arch nemesis named Devlin.

I really love Hawaii and its resorts, so the scenery is just lovely. Aniston’s make over scenes are also a lot of fun. Oh and the kids are adorably smart and manipulative.

All in all, it is very watchable and very cute.

 

Also on Jennifer Aniston:

Jennifer Aniston Trivia: 22 Facts About The World’s Most Popular Friend Jennifer Aniston

The Bounty Hunter

Love Happens

Marley and Me

He’s Just Not That Into You

Hollywood Stars in Friends

Derailed

Also on Adam Sandler:

Funny People starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann

 

 

 

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Filed Under: Movies and Actors Tagged With: Adam Sandler, brooklyn decker, comedy, dave matthews, Jennifer Aniston, just go with it, just go with it cast, just go with it movie, nick swardson, romance, romantic comedy

Funny People starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Leslie Mann

Posted on November 15, 2009 Written by ripitup

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Funny People with Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann and Eric Bana
Funny People with Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann and Eric Bana

I was really looking forward to this movie. I had seen the trailer and I thought : “Cool! We are going to watch a half-funny, half- dramatic film!” Well the movie was a little dramatic and a little funny but that’s all. And that can’t really get you through 153 minutes (146, if it is not unrated). I am not saying it was all bad, but there were so many unnecessary scenes and so many useless lines- it just doesn’t work.

So George Simmons (Adam Sandler) is a successful, highly popular and very rich comedic actor. He has come a long way from stand-up comics. He doesn’t have a problem picking women and all looks fine for him-until he goes to the doctor’s and finds out he is terminally ill. He examines his life. He realizes he has screwed up when he ruined things with the love of his life, Laura (Leslie Mann). Laura left George when he cheated on her and went on to marry an Australian called Clarke (Eric Bana) who apparently cheats on her too. But she has two kids with him…

George doesn’t have any real friends either. When he goes back to the stage for live comedy (probably for nostalgic reasons), he meets a clumsy,not-so-funny Ira and for some reason decides to have him work for him. Ira is ecstatic- he is writing jokes and assisting his favorite funny man.

Ira has two close friends: Leo (Jonah Hill) a comic a little funnier (supposedly) than him and Mark (Jason Schwartzman) who plays in a sitcom that Ira can’t really stand to watch.

So the movie concentrates on relationships and trusts the dialogs: Between George and Ira, Ira and his buddies, Ira and Laura and later on my favorite : when Clarke comes from a business trip to find George and Ira at home with his wife and kids.

There are things I like about the movie, I can’t say I despised it. Let me write down the likes first:

Likes:

+ Eric Bana: Don’t tell me it is because he looks good because he doesn’t , not here. But he is a good actor and his role & over-the-top Australian accent is funny. He is a real Aussie but that’s not how he actually speaks…And there were some good jokes that came from Ira about why they shouldn’t mess with him.

+ Seth Rogen: I normally don’t like him. I despised his character in Knocked-Up, he just wasn’t funny. But in this movie, he is the only character that is well…humane and at least slightly likable. With all his failures and good intentions, he was fun to watch. He has also some funny takes on who makes it successful in life. And Ira’s stand-up scenes at least one or two funny moments.

Dislikes:

– Leslie Mann’s Laura: She was fine and likable at first but later she just got…OK, so she can forgive a cheater ex (Adam Sandler) because he is dying. Fair enough. But then he gets better and she suddenly acts like he is the one that got away and her husband is an asshole..and..yeah the problem is Clarke isn’t actually that big an asshole, he is certainly not worse than George. So you sympathize with…no one, really! Ira is OK but then he really acts like a crybaby most of the time and you just want him to tell George to stick it.

-The Brat Pack: I don’t have anything against Brat Packs or crude comedy- as long as the combination works. I like the group of Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson and well, I adore Old School. But if you are going to throw in lots of swearing and abrasive language, please make sure it is funny!

-The stand-up acts: The movie involves so many scenes with them. It just slows the movie down. Really slows it down, because they are just not funny 99% of the time.

– Duration : You really shouldn’t have a story pretending to be profound for 153 minutes, when you could have a much more effective and much funnier story told in 90 minutes! I thought it was ironic. In one scene Laura tells George to cut the swearing and he jokes that then he wouldn’t have a third act. I wish Leslie Mann had told the same thing to real life husband Judd Apatow. Yes, brat pack and family members….Ouch!

In wish I had known the movie was Judd Apatow’s and his brat pack’s.His movie making is just my style. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy 40-year-old virgin, the movie had a lot of funny moments. But I was really bored during Knocked Up. It wasn’t funny, I didn’t like any of the characters and if a comedy doesn’t make you laugh, you feel bad. I have nothing against Sandler- I actually really like some of his movies, like The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard and Anger Management. But the elements in the movies just don’t work. Indiviudally, Bana,Sandler and Rogen are good. The idea of the story is fine. Cameos are fun. But..that’s pretty much it. And it certainly didn’t help that I watched this movie on the same day I watched Hangover. The Hangover is my next post- it is directed by the Old School director Todd Philips. And it is a perfect example of how you can be crass and funny without being boring and irrelevant.

Other Movies feat. Jonah Hill

The Invention of Lying

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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Filed Under: Movies and Actors Tagged With: Adam Sandler, Brat Pack, comedy, drama, Eric Bana, Funny People, Jason Schwartzman, Jonah Hill, Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, movies, Seth Rogen

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