Ambiguous Syntax: Rob's three ex-wives (each the mother of one of his daughters) are referred to as "the eater, the beater and the cheater", but it's unclear whether or not that was in the order they'd married Rob or reverse order, especially considering that multiple characters question how the older two girls could be Rob's daughters, while Bridget the youngest is clearly his kid.The way the scene of the shot is filmed makes it ambiguous, so it's impossible to tell who's right. Ambiguous Situation: Dickie claims that Lenny's game winning shot shouldn't have counted because his foot was on the out of bounds line while Lenny says otherwise.
All Love Is Unrequited: Eric's daughter, Donna has a crush on Lenny's son Keithie which he is flattered by but does not reciprocate in "Grown Ups 2".Agony of the Feet: The group's game of Arrow Roulette ends with the arrow piercing Rob's foot.Crosses into Reality Subtext if you know that Rob really was estranged from one of his daughters at the time.It may also be a reference to Henry Winkler's appearances in several Adam Sandler films, such as The Waterboy, Little Nicky, Click, and You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Gloria mentions that Rob has been compared to a "midget Filipino Fonzie" - Rob Schneider has Filipino blood.Not to be confused with Jaleel White's short-lived UPN show.
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But it kicked off the The Worst Idea of All Time podcast by the New Zealand comedians Guy Montgomery and Tim Batt, who took on the challenge of watching the movie and reviewing it once a week for a year. The sequel got extremely negative reviews and was a box office bomb. Adulthood is what you make of it, and no one at the lake house is eager to be the grown-up of the gang.Ī sequel was released in July 2013, where only Sandler, James, Rock and Spade returned (Schneider was unable to reprise his role due to scheduling conflicts and his wife was pregnant during production). Over the course of the Fourth of July weekend, the five friends realize that just because they've all grown up and started families doesn't mean that they've lost that old spark.
Grown Ups is in cinemas from Friday August 25, certificate 12A.Thirty years after graduating from high school, five former basketball teammates Lenny Feder (Sandler), Eric Lamonsoff (James), Kurt McKenzie (Rock), Marcus Higgins (Spade) and Rob Hilliard (Schneider) gather at the lake house where they celebrated their biggest victory to mourn the passing of their late coach. Most of the stars of Grown Ups have known each other for years, many meeting at American sketch show Saturday Night Live, so the real-life chemistry between the actors is translated seamlessly to the characters they play on screen. He brought Fred Wolf in to write the script with him, and once it was finished, it wasn’t hard getting everyone on board. Sandler came up with the idea for the film after dreaming up a character of a guy who feels like he and his family have lost their perspective of what’s important in life. With their wives, played by Salma Hayek, Maria Bello and Maya Rudolph, and kids in tow they pick up where they left off all those years ago and discover growing older doesn’t necessarily mean growing up. When their beloved former basketball coach dies, Lenny Feder (Adam Sandler), Eric Lamonsoff (Kevin James), Kurt McKenzie (Chris Rock), Marcus Higgins (David Spade), and Rob Hilliard (Rob Schneider) return to their home town to spend the summer at the lake house where they celebrated their championship years earlier. ADAM Sandler heads up an all-star comedy cast in Grown Ups, the story of five childhood friends who reunite 30 years later to meet each others’ families for the first time.
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