Grownups 2
| Movie | |
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| German title | Grownups 2 |
| Original title | Grown Ups 2 |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dennis Dugan |
| script |
Adam Sandler , Fred Wolf |
| production |
Jack Giarraputo , Adam Sandler |
| music | Rupert Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Theo van de Sande |
| cut | Tom Costain |
| occupation | |
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| chronology | |
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Grown Ups 2 (Original title: Grown Ups 2 ) is an American comedy with Adam Sandler , Kevin James , Chris Rock and David Spade from 2013. Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf wrote the script and Dennis Dugan directed. The film is the sequel to the comedy Grown Ups from 2010 and was produced by Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions and the film distributor Columbia Pictures . With the exception of Rob Schneider, all of the main characters in the first part played again.
action
Hollywood agent Lenny has moved to his old New England hometown with his family to allow his children to lead a normal life. His childhood friends Eric, Kurt and Marcus and their old rivals around Dickie Bailey also still live there and work here. However, there are problems here too, because in addition to the difficulties his sons Greg and Keith have in dating girls, Lenny's wife Roxanne would like a fourth child, which his friends make him feel pretty bad. Marcus also has to get along with an illegitimate son named Braden, whom he didn't even know until recently and who doesn't like him very well for the time being.
The last day of school is approaching and a group of students, especially the boastful Andy, accuse Lenny and his friends of not being as popular as they used to be. In revenge, Braden devastated their fraternity house , which they attribute to their fathers. Things go wrong during the day: Lenny accidentally breaks his son Keith's leg during football practice; Eric transfers his wife to visit his mother and Roxanne learns that her employee Penny has had a soft spot for her husband since she went to school.
In the evening there is a big party in Lenny's house, where everyone dresses up like in the 80s. At this party, Roxanne confesses to Lenny that she is pregnant, which unsettles him. In the process, however, he reconciles with Tommy Cavanaugh, who always annoyed him at school, and the parents discover their children's talents in the process. Suddenly, the students appear to take revenge for the destruction of their fraternity house, but are put to flight by Lenny and the others. The friends now agree that they are a long way from being "old-fashioned". Later they visit Eric's mother, who uses her son's example to explain that an unplanned child is no less loved than a planned one. This makes Marcus thoughtful and Lenny is already looking forward to his fourth child.
background
- The shooting took place from June 2012.
- The film was released in US cinemas on July 12, 2013. In Germany it was released in cinemas on July 18, 2013. In 2013, 1,415,008 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film 18th place among the most visited films of the year.
- The film had a budget of around $ 80 million and grossed over $ 240 million.
- The film is the first sequel to a film starring Adam Sandler.
- Wrestler Steve Austin , basketball player Shaquille O'Neal , Adam Sandler's wife Jackie Sandler (brunette woman with pigtails in the fitness center), and actors Chris Hardwick , Taylor Lautner and Patrick Schwarzenegger appear in the film.
- During the evening's party, Lenny is dressed up as Bruce Springsteen , Eric as Meat Loaf , Kurt as Prince , Marcus as John Oates , Braden as Daryl Hall , Dickie as Maverick , Greg as Joel Goodson and Greg's dream girl Nancy as Pat Benatar . Other guests include the disguises of Donald Trump , Richard Simmons , Papa Smurf , Boy George , Hulk Hogan , Mr. T , Indiana Jones , Flavor Flav , the Terminator , Mario and Luigi .
Connections to the predecessor
In Children's Heads 2 there is hardly any reference to the first part; all you can see is the rivalry between the four friends and the others who were playing basketball against them. Rob Schneider , actor of the fifth friend, is not mentioned at all and Lenny's nanny Rita is also not discussed. Only Kurt's mother-in-law can be seen briefly, but their relationship has not changed. There is also a brief reference to Wiley's two broken arms (played by Steve Buscemi ) that he contracted in the first part.
reception
Like the previous film, Grown Ups 2 received mostly negative reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , only 7% of the reviews are positive out of a total of 106 reviews. The average rating is 2.6 / 10. At Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 19/100 with a total of 28 reviews. The Time Magazine called Grown Ups 2 worst film, 2013.
The film service judged that the episodes were just "poorly lashed to a film plot, [...] as a string of mostly unsuccessful punchlines". The Cinema summed up that the film was "carelessly unwound clothes that give away the potential of their top-class cast in favor of cheap gags". The film website kino.de wrote that the well-established Sandler / Dugan team deviated “only a little from their tried and tested recipe for success of crude humor mixed with warm-hearted sentiment”. Despite "plenty of bad taste gags (like an extensive deer pee attack) and a few (relatively chaste [n]) personalities, the silly, exuberant nonsense comedy plows relatively harmless gag territory and is clearly laid out as family entertainment."
Negative awards
The film received nine nominations for the 2014 Golden Raspberry ridiculous prize :
- Nomination: worst film
- Nomination: Worst Director Dennis Dugan
- Nomination: Worst Actor Adam Sandler
- Nomination: Worst Supporting Actor Taylor Lautner
- Nomination: Worst Supporting Actor Nick Swardson
- Nomination: Worst Supporting Actress Salma Hayek
- Nomination: Worst Screenplay Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy and Fred Wolf
- Nomination: Worst screen pair The entire ensemble of Kindskeads 2
- Nomination: prequel, remake, rip-off or sequel
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Grown Ups 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Child heads 2 at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of release for children's heads 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 232 K).
- ^ "All The North Shore's A Stage" by Alan Burke, The Salem News June 5, 2012
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2191701/releaseinfo
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, January 23-29, 2014, p. 24f
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=grownups2.htm
- ↑ Grown Ups 2 . Retrieved January 23, 2015.
- ↑ Grown Ups 2 Reviews . Metacritic. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
- ↑ Top 10 Worst Movies , Time Magazine . 3rd December 2013.
- ^ Grown-ups 2nd film service , accessed on January 23, 2015 .
- ^ Grown-ups 2. Cinema , accessed on January 23, 2015 .
- ^ Ara: Grown-ups 2. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on January 23, 2015 .
- ↑ News , accessed January 19, 2014