'Grown Ups'

15 years after leaving a hugely popular late night comedy show, 5 friends get together to make a mediocre movie that is cliche around every corner. 'Grown Ups' brings together 4 (sorry James, Chris Farley is kind of dead and they needed another fat guy quick) of the best SNL cast members from the golden age of the show and pretty much let them do their own stuff for an hour and a half. It feels like this movie had no substance when it began, and all they really had written was how they got all these aging funny men together after 30 years. Beyond that, it seems like is was every man for himself. David Spade played the same character he's being playing ever since 'Just Shoot Me', Schneider just needed to pay his rent, I don't know what Chris Rock was thinking, Sandler got every funny bone in his body removed when he decided he wanted to focus on more family friendly films, and Kevin James was just filling a big void left by the greatest physical comedy actor ever. This movie certainly has funny parts in it, it's hard not to when you put some many heads together, something clever is bound to fall out of one of them. I was dissappointed in the lack of effort it seemed that was put into making this film. I continue to put faith into these actors in the hope that they can make me laugh like they used to, but the days of 'Happy Gilmore' and 'Tommy Boy' are gone and that era of comedy is done forever. I have no doubt that all of these men (Excluding Schneider. He's lucky KFC let him off long enough to make this movie) will continue to ride the wave that is Happy Madison Productions, but lucky for us there's a new tide coming in of fresh faces that will no doubt be the Farley's and Spade's and Sandler's of this generation. Final result is a measly 2 out of 5.