Ready for vacation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ready for vacation |
| Original title | Blended |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Coraci |
| script |
Ivan Menchell Clare Sera |
| production |
Mike Karz Adam Sandler Jack Giarraputo |
| music | Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Julio Macat |
| cut | Tom Costain |
| occupation | |
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Vacation Ready (Original Title: Blended ) is a romantic comedy film from 2014 directed by Frank Coraci with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in the lead roles.
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After his wife's cancer death, Jim is the single father of three girls: Lou, Larry and Espn (whom he named after the television station ESPN ). The manager of a branch of a sporting goods chain has an appointment with an unknown woman for the first time in decades. He chose the Hooters fast food restaurant as a meeting place , where he meets Lauren. She is a self-employed closet organizer with her company Closet Queens and recently divorced after her husband cheated on her with another woman. However, her ex-husband no longer takes care of her two sons Tyler and Brendan, so she is also a single parent.
The meeting of Jim and Lauren is a complete failure and they both don't want to see each other anymore. A short time later, the two coincidentally meet again in a shop. There Jim is about to buy tampons for his daughter who has gotten her period. Lauren wants to get a men's magazine for her son after angry she tore up a poster from a magazine that he had hidden under his bed. As they are both embarrassed, they agree that Lauren pays for the tampons at the cash register and Jim pays for the porno magazine, after which they go their separate ways.
The next day, Jim shows up at Lauren's front door because the cashier swapped her credit cards during the last purchase in the supermarket. Just as they are about to swap cards, Lauren's friend and business partner Jen joins them and tells them that she broke up with her rich boyfriend Dick because of his five children and that her trip to South Africa that was booked for the next week would also fall into the water. Jim finds out that Dick is his boss and owner of the sporting goods chain. He secretly calls him to buy the booked trip cheaply. At the same time, Lauren takes over the booked places from Jen.
The two families finally meet in Africa and have to share and arrange the rooms. Jim's children quickly find sympathy for Lauren and Jim shows empathy in dealing with Lauren's anxious youngest son. Lauren gradually realizes that Jim is not as awkward as he first appeared on the date at the Hooters . She also learns that he chose the place because it was previously run by Jim's late wife. Jim, however, knows that he screwed up the blind date at the Hooters and arranges a new meeting at the vacation hotel; Both get closer, but before they can kiss, Jim backs away because he can't yet.
Back in America, Jim realizes with the help of his daughters that he is now ready for a new relationship after all; at the end of the film, he meets Lauren.
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- The original title, which literally means "mixed" refers to the term blended family , which in the German language mostly as a blended family is called.
- Many members of the Sandler family appear in the film, including his wife Jackie Sandler , his daughters Sadie and Sunny, and his mother Judith.
- After A Wedding to Fall in Love (also directed by Frank Coraci ) and 50 first dates , this is the third comedy film with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore as a film couple in the lead roles.
- In the film, Allen Covert made a cameo as the memory-impaired Tom. He played this role in 50 first dates , the last film together by Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.
- In addition, the almost bowler of the South African national cricket team , Dale Steyn , has a cameo.
- During the slow-motion appearance of the styled Hilary and the styled Lauren, the songs I'm Every Woman ( Chaka Khan ), I'll Make Love To You ( Boyz II Men ) and It's the End of the World as We Know It ( REM ) recorded to represent the thoughts of people present. Lauren also follows I Kissed a Girl ( Katy Perry ).
- The film was shot mainly in Sun City (South Africa) , individual scenes also in various locations in the US state of Georgia .
- The world premiere took place on May 20, 2014 in Berlin . The cinema release in Germany was on May 22, 2014, in the USA on May 23, 2014.
synchronization
Jan Odle was responsible for the dialogue book and Axel Malzacher was responsible for the dialogue direction.
| Actress | role | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Sandler | Jim Friedman | Dietmar miracle |
| Drew Barrymore | Lauren Reynolds | Nana Spier |
| Kevin Nealon | Eddy | Stefan Gossler |
| Terry Crews | Nodding | Ron Williams |
| Wendi McLendon-Covey | Jen | Victoria Storm |
| Emma Carter | Espn Friedman | Léa Mariage |
| Bella Thorne | Hilary "Larry" Friedman | Jodie Blank |
| Alyvia Alyn Lind | Lou Friedman | Nisha miracle |
| Joel McHale | mark | Norman Matt |
| Abdoulaye N'Gom | Mfana | Salomon Woubayehu Ayele |
| Kyle Red Silverstein | Tyler Reynolds | Joshua miracle |
| Zak Henri | Jake | Patrick Baehr |
| Jessica Lowe | Ginger | Daniela Reidis |
| Braxton Beckham | Brendan Reynolds | Elia Francolino |
| Shaquille O'Neal | Doug | Tobias Kluckert |
| Lauren Lapkus | Tracy | Nicole Hannak |
| Dan Patrick | Thick | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Alexis Arquette | Georgina | |
| Allen Covert | Tom | Jacques Breuer |
| Rob Moran | Baseball dads | Michael Iwannek |
| Michael Buscemi | Viktor Neumann | |
| Marissa Raisor | Bethany | Christin Quander |
| Dale Steyn | Dale | Tobias Nath |
| Jared Sandler | Boy in sports shop | Jeffrey Wipprecht |
| Josette Eales | masseuse | Christin Marquitan |
| Jonathan Loughran | Umpire | Matthias Rimpler |
| TV commentator | Axel Malzacher |
Reviews
“The moving elements of the film are hardly effective, which is due to the innocence with which the portrayal of two“ minorities ”is supposed to create comedy: women and blacks. The racist clichés hardly to be surpassed the drawing of the Africans, who besides constant singing and dancing, are allowed to display either very tangible personalities or incomprehensible incompetence, is no longer closed with the genre-affine "over" drawing of comedy justify. [..] Jim's sermon about the "inner values" after Lauren gave his eldest daughter the "finally due" beauty treatment so that she can win over her crush, on the other hand, only seems pretended when Lauren complains to Jen that she is but should have worn shorter clothes and higher shoes to hold her husband - and not only applies this principle to Jim's daughter, but also to yourself, in order to catch the next man, namely Jim. "
“As in his other films, Sandler doesn't dwell on gray tones or subtleties. [..] That is why in "Urlaubreif" between romance there are always copulating rhinos , loud and very deep cut blondes, " cameltoes " and other slippery things. [..] All of this is not very big cinema, but - compared to other Sandler films, bearable (especially compared to his previous films such as " Grown Ups 2 " or " Jack and Jill "). "
"In the wide sea of childish embarrassments and wooden constructions there are only a few small waves of quick-witted humor and warm-hearted feelings."
“Completely over the top, full of clichés, and yet“ Ready for Vacation ”is full of normal people and real stories. [..] There are scenes that bring tears to your eyes, both from laughter and from crying, but the balance between comedy and problem discussion is maintained. "
"Not only does Frank Coraci hardly manage to hold the strings of the absurd plot together, which staggers back and forth between romantic comedy, relationship drama, coming of age elements, and the most stupid slapstick interludes, and sometimes to the bizarre 70s comedies remembered by Adriano Celentano . No, what also hurts far more is a conservative image of the family and men who struts about, which is dutifully scrapped from time to time through restrained irony, but at its core is celebrated by generating an intact extended family from two desolate small families - hokospokus - . [..] So while you are amazed and stunned to watch a pseudo folklore fireworks display, which is also underpinned by unimaginably stupid ethnic stereotypes, the length of the film keeps slipping away from you. "
Negative prices
- 2014: Nomination for the Houston Film Critics Society Awards : Worst Picture
- 2015: Nomination for the Golden Raspberry. Worst actor : Adam Sandler
- 2015: Nomination for the Golden Raspberry. Worst Actress : Drew Barrymore
- 2015: Nomination for the Golden Raspberry. Worst Supporting Actor : Shaquille O'Neal
Web links
- Urlaubsreif in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Urlaubsreif at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ready for vacation in film-dienst , issue 11/2014
- ↑ Shallow entertainment: Ready for vacation ( memento from June 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on Bavaria 3 from May 20, 2014
- ↑ Ready for vacation in Süddeutsche Zeitung on May 22, 2014
- ↑ Anti-Barbie and Anti-Ken are "ready for vacation" on n-tv on May 23, 2014
- ↑ Ready for vacation: Above all, too much and too little on artechock from May 22, 2014