A plastic surgeon, romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
It's all ridiculous, of course, but it's meant to be.
– Bill Goodykoontz,
Arizona Republic,
12 Aug 2011
rotten:
Amidst the wreckage of Just Go With It, Aniston and Sandler have a real chemistry. They should go elsewhere with it.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep 2011
rotten:
An egregiously unfunny enterprise that seem less crafted than extruded through the great product-mill that is Hollywood at its most homogenized and soulless.
– Ann Hornaday,
Washington Post,
24 Sep 2011
rotten:
The central conceit serves the new version well enough, despite the filmmakers' regrettable addition of sundry idiotic distractions.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
16 Nov 2011
rotten:
Jennifer Aniston has starred in so many lame romantic comedies that she's become an industry punch line, but drop her into an Adam Sandler movie and she comes off like Katharine Hepburn.