Lenny has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises—the last day of school.
Sandler's films have always been stupid, but the early stuff is pretty harmless; here the jokes almost always come at the expense of someone else, the kind of needless bullying one expects of a YouTube comment section.
– Drew Hunt,
Chicago Reader,
28 Jul 2014
rotten:
These movies are about four friends -- played by comedians -- remembering what it was like to be young. How much better for an audience would it be if they remembered what it was like to make comedy?
– Wesley Morris,
Grantland,
29 Jul 2013
rotten:
Grown Ups 2 delivers exactly what it's been advertising in trailers and on talk shows: grubby low-comic escapism.
– Michael Sragow,
Orange County Register,
12 Jul 2013
rotten:
This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance.
– Andy Webster,
New York Times,
12 Jul 2013
rotten:
It makes the first movie look like The Maltese Falcon.