Grown Ups
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 25, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
13
Negative:
16
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
No one in their right mind goes to an Adam Sandler movie for any reason other than to laugh, and Grown Ups delivers. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
For a while, the movie looks like "Couples Retreat" or a Tyler Perry house party, only instead of cookie-cutter conflicts, everyone just grows happier and more relaxed. Read full review
67
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
What kept me laughing is the genuine camaraderie among Sandler's posse, the way they almost play themselves that perfectly suits this slim material. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineSteve Ramos
Current Saturday Night Live (SNL) comic Will Forte may have bombed in the recent SNL spin-off "MacGruber," but a dream team of SNL alums, including ringleader Adam Sandler, put the luster back in the SNL reputation with the audience-pleasing, all-ages comedy Grown Ups. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A pleasant, genial, good-hearted, sometimes icky comedy that's like spending a weekend with well-meaning people you don't want to see again any time real soon. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
The only people humiliated, really, are older people and heavy people and nerds and vegans and black people and mothers who breast-feed their 4-year-olds. Everybody else gets a pass. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The guys are more amusing than not, and they display the easy chemistry of real-life pals. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
In Sandler's movies, men don't cry; they urinate. So the scene in which the stars empty their bladders and change the color of a swimming pool's water might be the weepiest of the year. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
The film drifts along on a stream of humiliation jokes - physical, emotional, sexual, hairpiece-ial. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Despite the lazily self-satisfied results, his (Sandler) aging fan base likely will come along for the lackadaisical ride. Read full review
45
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
Isn't just unfunny; it's so dull. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Beneath all the forced hilarity lies an awful fear of aging--and Sandler is only 43! This is gonna be rough. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
The movie devolves into a series of clichéd bits, none of which are that funny. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter Debruge
Grown Ups delivers precious few laughs for the sheer volume of comedy talent on offer. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
The new Adam Sandler comedy has all the charm of a home movie that does not star your own family, which means it's overly sentimental, filled with you-had-to-be-there moments, bad jokes and even worse camera angles. Read full review
40
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
No viewer goes into this movie expecting John Cassavetes's "Husbands," least of all from soft-serve director Denis Dugan (You Don't Mess with the Zohan). Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
These guys set out to make a movie where they could crack each other up. At this late date, they can't even manage that. Read full review
38
USA TodayScott Bowles
If Sandler hopes to win over new fans, he may want to cork the scatological humor and let it age a bit. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe Williams
Nobody escapes unscathed, except, of course, for Sandler, who co-wrote the infantile screenplay. Read full review
35
NPRMark Jenkins
Indeed, despite occasional attempts at plot and character, this is basically a roast with scenery. Read full review
33
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
A movie that at best is irrelevant and at worst is unwatchable. Read full review
30
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
While Sandler has never trafficked in epigrammatic wit, there's a difference between, say, Billy Madison's "Of course I peed my pants--everyone my age pees their pants" or "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry's" shakedown of hetero squeamishness, and this lazy stuff--the difference between smart-dumb and plain-dumb. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Dumb, lazy, obvious and largely pointless. Read full review
25
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Grown Ups finds Sandler reverting to lunkheaded, lazy-laff form. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
The film has some chuckles, if no belly laughs; it has some warmth, if no great heat. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Adam is back to lining his pockets again. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
When Grown Ups star and co-writer Adam Sandler repeatedly slapped Rob Schneider in the face with a dehydrated banana, I was jealous of Schneider, who suffered less than I did getting slapped upside the head by this rotting fruit of a comedy. Read full review
20
EmpireNick de Semlyen
Smug and lazy comedy that barely raises a chuckle. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Grown Ups is exactly, beat for beat, what the previews would have you believe: a depressingly predictable, two-chuckle deconstruction of what Sandler sees as the modern American male. Read full review
20
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
The guys abuse each other in what's meant to be fraternal affection but feels more like the discomfort of being stuck together in a terrible movie. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
If Grown Ups were any lazier or more slapdash, it'd be a home movie. Read full review
0
The New York TimesStephen Holden
It doesn't get worse than Grown Ups, Adam Sandler's sloppy entry into this year's man-child-comedy sweepstakes. Lazy, mean-spirited, incoherent, infantile and, above all, witless. Read full review
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