Grown Ups 2

Rating-5/10

The Good
-The jokes that work

The Bad
-The Jokes that miss
-Immature humour
-The storytelling

Grown ups 2 follows childhood friends Lenny (Adam Sandler), Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock) and Markus (David Spade) in a day in their lives as middle aged parents.

As a comedy the humour is very hit and miss. Some of the side characters are a little off, but mostly I found them enjoyable, especially Taylor Lautner as a highly strung frat boy and Shaquille O'Neal as a crazy police officer (on a side note, any film that can make me enjoy Shaq is doing something right). The CG effects in some scenes can also be a little distracting.
The main characters seem to interact very naturally, bordering on stand up.

The storytelling is fairly off; plot lines seem to come up during the film, then are resolved very poorly during the climax, often in very convenient ways.

Ultimately Grown Ups 2 is pretty fun. If you can bare with it and ignore some of the bigger flaws you might have a good time, however I can't recommend it unless you are able to really turn your brain off and enjoy some of the sillier moments.
If you aren't a fan of the first film, or Happy Madison in general, I recommend missing this one.

AS A SEQUEL

The fact that it was a sequel doesn't really hold any baring on the film.