Sandler could have easily made a Billy Madison 2, Happy Gilmore 2, The Waterboy 2, Big Daddy 2, or 50 More First Dates.
For that matter, he could have overlooked the sour note on which his 5-season run on "Saturday Night Live" ended to try and stretch one of his popular one-joke characters (Opera Man or Canteen Boy, perhaps) on that institution to feature length.
But instead of following the example of his SNL forebears Eddie Murphy and Mike Myers, Sandler has resisted beating a dead horse, preferring to come up with new material, often writing with his friends and, since 1998, always producing.
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Having already displayed greater longevity than virtually any comedy movie star and recently experienced the first back-to-back underperformers of his career in Jack and Jill and That's My Boy, Sandler evidently budged from his aversion to sequels to make Grown Ups 2. (Sandler's most frequent supporting actor Rob Schneider is conspicuously absent, with given reasons varying.) The project would reunite Sandler with his friends/collaborators, SNL castmates Chris Rock and David Spade and 21st century co-star Kevin James. The original Grown Ups was an unusually leggy summer comedy that ended up Sandler's second highest grosser domestically and first worldwide (although adjusting for ticket inflation drops it to a less remarkable place behind not only his '90s triumphs but also strong millennial performers like Mr. It was a bigger hit than expected for what looked like a '90s SNL reunion and it allowed Sandler to give his friends a tasty share of his staggering profitability.Īs Sandler movies have grown to more closely resemble paid vacations, Grown Ups 2 made sense. Why invent new personalities and premises when he and the gang could just step back into their sarcastic middle-aged selves and live it up with more nostalgic summer hijinks? That especially seemed like a no-brainer since a sequel was more likely to meet the financial success that had eluded Sandler's most recent live-action efforts. Watching Grown Ups 2 is kind of like discovering your favorite athlete has lost his touch. I'm not saying that Sandler is washed-up or should consider retirement (the numbers prove otherwise), only that it's painful to see him regressing so much.
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