Releasing Studio: Sony Pictures (Happy Madison Productions)
Disc/Transfer Specifications: 1080p 1.85:1; Region 1 (U.S.) Release
Video Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Tested Audio Track: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Rating: PG-13
Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring Cast: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Brooklyn Decker
SOMETIMES A GUY’S BEST WINGMAN…IS A WINGWOMAN.
PEARLCORDER’S PLOT ANALYSIS:
Let’s put this typical Adam Sandler-is-the-geeky-Jewish-kid-who-grows-up-to-be-the-ultimate-ladies-man satire aside for a second – holy ****, is the delicious Brooklyn Decker smokin’ hot in this. As an American fashion model who has appeared in a sexy layout within the
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, this girl is spreading her acting wings a bit (I wish I could get to see her spread something else, to be honest) playing opposite the always-chasing-hot-*** Adam Sandler. In fact, I couldn’t figure out who was sexiest in this film – Jen Aniston, who looked as delicious as ever in certain sequences and outfits, Decker or even Nicole Kidman, who was strutting her stuff in high heels and sultry outfits all over the place. No matter – I think Decker’s so hot, I switched out my avatar to include a snap of her in nothing but her baby blue bra, boy short panties and stunning fashionista stilettos. She’s just delicious.
To be honest, I was growing a little tired of Sandler’s last few performances, and I have commented about this in previous, multiple reviews – I mean, this guy just plays the exact same role, the exact same way, with the exact same underlying themes of needing to hook up with the hottest chicks after enduring a childhood of torment and teasing due to his unsightly looks as a kid, yadda yadda yadda. In Dennis Dugan’s
Just Go With It, Sandler plays a successful plastic surgeon performing corrective tit and brow jobs for his snobby clients, while Aniston plays his assistant in the office. The film opens with one of those typical flashbacks so prevalent in Sandler’s films – which are routinely churned out by his own Happy Madison production house – which depicts a younger Sandler about to get married circa 1988 in Long Island, New York, and I gotta tell ya…the shoddy makeup work here was atrocious. Sandler is portrayed as a Jew-Fro’ed, massive-nosed buffoon, made even more laughable by his idiotic cousin who is riddled with pimples and comes off as the dork of all dorks. In the bridal suite, his wife to be is getting ready, finishing up touches on her dress and veil, while her snotty Long Island friends assist her and gab with her about the steps she’s about to take with Sandler’s character – Sandler, with a massively huge phony nose on, playing a younger version of himself at this point, is listening in to the girls’ conversations from outside the door, when he overhears his bride saying that she is pretty much marrying him for security and money. With tears streaming down his pock-marked mug, Sandler’s character begins to narrate the story for us, and suddenly we’re in the present time, where he’s a successful plastic surgeon (I believe somewhere in L.A.).
There’s an underlying theme here of Sandler – after some quick flashbacks prior to the film entering the present day of him sleeping with several hot girls throughout college, still keeping his wedding ring on – not being able to marry again, but yet uses the ring to get chicks into bed, throughout the beginning of
Just Go With It; I suppose you have to just…well…go with it. The plot soon reveals itself, in which Sandler’s character, in the present day, throws a house party on the beach and meets the smokin’ hot Decker, even amidst all the fake tits walking around his pad that he’s worked on. The two of them get it on right there on the beach, and when the morning comes, Decker reaches for Sandler’s pants so he can put them on – but she finds his wedding ring from all those years before in one of his pockets, instantly alarming her that this douche bag is married. Claiming that he isn’t, Sandler quickly cooks up a story about being separated from a “wife” and brings Aniston into his scheme of trying to prove to Decker that he isn’t still into his “wife.” Aniston, who up to this point was a rather haphazard, frumpy dresser in Sandler’s office, visits some Rodeo Drive shops and gets decked out in the sexiest of outfits, to pretend she’s Sandler’s soon-to-be-ex – and wow, does Jen look great in this scene. Her short skirt, expensive trendy towering heels, toned, tanned legs and cute hat make her a delight to look at onscreen (like usual). Sandler has set the scenario up so that Decker can meet the “wife” (Aniston) and try and figure out if Sandler is full of **** – but as Aniston walks (in slow motion technique in the filming) in her sexy outfit towards the two of them, Decker exclaims
”Is that HER?” while Sandler can’t believe what he’s seeing. His once frumpy, glasses-wearing assistant is sashaying towards them in an ensemble that would make a blind man hard – and of course, Sandler’s character begins to fall for Aniston’s instead of Decker’s. Like we couldn’t see
that coming.
Anyway, eventually Aniston’s two kids are brought into the picture, after she slips and mentions that she and Sandler had kids from their marriage, and so now, the children must play a part in this whole made up story – Aniston’s daughter, an annoying little tart that insists on speaking in thick British accents just to piss people off courtesy of her acting lessons, promises to pretend to be Sandler’s daughter, while her son – a depressed-looking, miserable little brat – blackmails Sandler into taking him to Hawaii to “swim with the dolphins” in exchange for pretending to be his son. Meanwhile, Sandler’s moronic cousin from the opening wedding sequence is along for the ride too, pretending to be “Dolph Lundgren,” Aniston’s new love interest since moving on past Sandler. The two couples and the kids fly to Hawaii – on Sandler’s dime if this wasn’t enough – and of course, hijinks ensue once there. Some of the more interesting eye candy setpieces come when Decker and Aniston strip down to tiny bikinis before diving into a waterfall; a true stiffy-inducing sight to behold. One evening at their resort, Aniston runs into an old sorority sister of hers from her college days (played by Nicole Kidman who has miraculously lost her UK accent in this) and her self-centered, imbecilic husband. Like we’ve seen before in these kinds of comedies, a competition of sorts breaks out between the women, where during a hula girl competition one night, the two of them shake their tight asses to win and out-do the other, no matter how ridiculous they make themselves look. Whatever.
As the trip progresses, Sandler and Aniston realize the feelings they have for one another, but this kind of narrative is just
sooooo predictable and tiring already; of course we knew that Sandler’s character and Aniston’s were going to end up together. Sandler really needs to either remove himself from this game or just get behind the scenes more for his Happy Madison studio – his “comedies” are really getting long in the tooth, and the clichéd, overwrought “ladies man in the faded T-shirts and baseball hats” characters are just plain annoying already. I mean, we get it – it’s these types of unattractive, disheveled dirt bags who always get the most smokin’ of girls everywhere they go, and we’ll just
never know why…but must it be constantly commercialized and sensationalized in every one of these modern day comedies?
The saving grace of this off-the-shelf attempt-at-a-laughfest comes in the form of the sexy Jen Aniston and Brooklyn Decker – the stares that Decker gives Aniston a couple of times in this, as if she’s hungry for Jen’s gorgeous flesh and would like to devour her based on looks alone, will drive you red-blooded American males into a frenzy, wondering if a lezbo sequence is about to break out…
We can only wish.
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