2010 · comedy · coming-of-age · sports
Grown Ups
Directed by Dennis Dugan1h 42m2010
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Our read: Grown Ups (2010) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · coming-of-age · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / coming-of-age, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- tender
- funny
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How Grown Ups feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want low-stakes reunion comedy where old friends riff and goof off.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if lazy Sandler ensemble jokes and body humor make you wince.
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