Just Go With(out) It

Just Go With It

Reviewed by Adam Minor

  

Contrary to what his last film would suggest, Adam Sandler has never grown up. Sandler rose to fame in Hollywood in his juvenile but hilarious Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. Since then, Sandler’s comedies have been hit-and-mostly-miss. It seems as though Sandler just isn’t content with his dramas. 2007’s Reign Over Me was a refreshing breath of fresh air and really showed Sandler’s dramatic abilities.

Just Go With It is the latest in lazy romcoms that put “Do something unique” at the bottom of their to-do list. In it, Sandler plays Danny, a well-to-do plastic surgeon that pretends to be married to bed beautiful women. When one of them gets too curious, Danny is forced to recruit his assistant to play his soon to be divorced wife. The plot that follows is, dependent on your willingness to suspend your disbelief, a bit improbable.

Just Go With It adds itself to the list of romantic comedies that ultimately bring nothing to cinema. Their lack of originality and hackneyed devices do nothing to add on, or even hearken back to, cinema as a whole. A complete copy of the Hindi film Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya, the only things Just Go With It adds are incessant fart jokes and groin hits.

Just Go With It just further solidifies Sandler’s stagnant position as a 10-year old boy with millions of dollars.

 

Rating: 1/5