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Just Go With It (2011) 
  
 I should start by confessing that I spent a lot of time before the screening of “Just Go With It” — and a few stretches while it was actually going on — trying to remember what the darn thing was called. I may have to look up the title a few more times before this review is done, and the movie is likely to live on in my memory (to the extent that it will) as “that one with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Hawaii.” Which pretty much sums up both the appeal and the limitations of this passive-aggressive, naughty but nice, sometimes obnoxious and occasionally quite funny late-winter romantic comedy. 
  
 “Just Go With It” remakes, updates, spices up and tones down a 1969 film called “Cactus Flower.” Without going into decline-of-civilization nostalgia — draw your own conclusions from the fact that the role now taken by Ms. Aniston belonged back then to Ingrid Bergman — I have to say that the old title was much better. It’s prickly and pungent, whereas the new version barely rises to the level of a slogan and seems to have been designed to excite search engines rather than flesh-and-blood audiences. 
  
 Still, this movie is better than “Grown Ups” or “The Bounty Hunter” or the one with Ms. Aniston and Aaron Eckhart that I can’t be bothered to Google right this minute. Mr. Sandler plays Danny Macabee, a wealthy, unattached Los Angeles plastic surgeon whose early heartbreak, on what was supposed to be his wedding day, has authorized 20 years of guiltless promiscuity. Danny wears a wedding ring, which he accessorizes with made-up tales of extreme marital woe to ensure an endless string of no-strings hookups. But then one night he meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a 23-year-old schoolteacher with a superb bellybutton, and by the time they wake up together on the beach he thinks she might be The One. 
  
 Which means Danny must divorce his nonexistent wife, whom his new sweetheart insists on meeting. He recruits his longtime assistant and receptionist, Katherine (Ms. Aniston), and treats her to a Beverly Hills shopping makeover that allows this mousy single mom to reveal that she had been a fox all along. The aftermath also allows Ms. Aniston to display her sometimes-dormant (like in that Aaron Eckhart thing) comic talents, which are as sharp and sleek as her shoes and outfits. Katherine’s first meeting with Palmer — in which Ms. Aniston, or rather her character, impersonates a boozy, cynical Los Angeles dowager — is also one of a handful of lively and successful comic set pieces that keep the movie from lapsing into by-the-numbers hack work. (This is as good a time as any to mention that the director is Dennis Dugan, who has competently steered a number of other Adam Sandler vehicles, including “Happy Gilmore” and “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan.”) 
  
 Nick Swardson shows up for goofy-sidekick duty as Danny’s loser cousin Eddie, who spends much of the movie pretending to be a nerdy German Internet sheep broker named Dolph Lundgren. It makes sense in context, or rather it doesn’t, which is a good thing, since Mr. Sandler’s movies work best when the sentimentality and self-congratulation are disrupted by anarchic nonsense. And the story, derived by the screenwriters Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling, from two stage plays by way of I. A. L. Diamond’s “Cactus Flower” script, contains enough pure farce to generate some momentum and surprise. 
  
 Katherine’s initial, reluctant imposture is complicated when Palmer discovers that she has a daughter (Bailee Madison) and a son (Griffin Gluck), whose father Danny must then pretend to be. Mr. Sandler, who built a career on childishness, often seems more comfortable horsing around with kids (or other maturity-resistant grown men) than getting all lovey-dovey with adult women. And in his scenes with these children he shows both pushy, rude playfulness and generosity, helping the young performers rise above generic movie-brat cuteness and earn some laughs on their own. 
  
 All in all, the hit-to-miss ratio of “Just Go With It” is not so terrible. Which is not to say the movie is anything special. The sexual politics of “Cactus Flower” are interestingly awkward, looking anxiously back to the ’50s and flinching at the onset of feminism, but this version occasionally lets loose an unacknowledged snarl of regression and resentment. None of the women have professional ambitions or money of their own; their primary asset is “hotness.” Ms. Aniston proudly shows herself off in a bikini — and looks great, it must be said — while Mr. Sandler keeps his shirt on, hanging loosely over his baggy pants. Yes, I know, the double standard is nothing new, but a wittier, less insecure movie might have at least had some fun with it. 
  
 But Mr. Sandler is not really willing to risk making fun of himself. He is too much of a bully for that. The infantile hostility that has always been part of his schtick seems increasingly tired, and “Just Go With It” is flecked with mean, lazy gags. There is some cheap homophobia at the end, and a lot of the kind of misogyny that treats the existence of nonthin, nonrich, nonwhite women as a joke in itself. 
  
 On the other hand there is the very thin, very rich and extremely pale character played by Nicole Kidman, who pops up, once the action has moved to Hawaii, to serve as a foil for Ms. Aniston and to remind viewers of her own comic talents. She seems to be having a pretty good time, as do most of the other performers, as if the movie were following the advice of its genial, forgettable title. 
  
 “Just Go With It” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It is frequently risqué, but always safe. 
  
 JUST GO WITH IT 
  
 Opens on Friday nationwide. 
  
 Directed by Dennis Dugan; written by Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling, based on the “Cactus Flower” screenplay by I. A. L. Diamond and the stage play by Abe Burrows, based on a French play by Barillet and Gredy; director of photography, Theo Van de Sande; edited by Tom Costain; music by Rupert Gregson-Williams; production design by Perry Andelin Blake; costumes by Ellen Lutter; produced by Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo and Heather Parry; released by Columbia Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 50 minutes. 
  
 WITH: Adam Sandler (Danny), Jennifer Aniston (Katherine), Nick Swardson (Eddie), Brooklyn Decker (Palmer), Dave Matthews (Ian Maxtone Jones), Bailee Madison (Maggie), Kevin Nealon (Adon), Griffin Gluck (Michael) and Nicole Kidman (Devlin Adams). ||||| Just Go With It 
  
 'Just Go With It' review: Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler push empty rom-com experience 
  
 Sony Pictures 'Just Go With It', starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, has plenty of chemistry but it's an empty rom-com as a whole. 
  
 Romantic comedy about friends posing as spouses. With Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston. Director: Dennis Dugan (1:56). PG-13: crude humor, sexuality. At area theaters. 
  
 What is it with Jennifer Aniston? Commitment issues? Low self-esteem? Because there's got to be a reason she makes so many poor choices. 
  
  
  
 I'm speaking, of course, about her taste in scripts, which is so baffling it's time to suggest either therapy or a change in management. The curse strikes again in "Just Go With It," a witless rom-com that is only marginally watchable thanks to Aniston and her costar, Adam Sandler. 
  
  
  
 They do work well together, in the sense that both are charismatic pros who know how to sell a project. But frankly, it's depressing to watch two likable talents pushing such a blatantly empty experience. 
  
  
  
 The suspension of disbelief begins immediately, when we learn Aniston's Katherine is a frumpy, single receptionist working for Sandler's Danny, a playboy plastic surgeon. Meanwhile, supermodel Brooklyn Decker plays Palmer, the twentysomething teacher who falls instantly for Danny. Unfortunately, their romance hits a snag when she finds the fake wedding ring he uses to seduce single women. 
  
  
  
 Since he implies he's getting a divorce, she insists on meeting his ex — to be played, of course, by Katherine. And once Katherine's kids appear, Danny has to pretend they're his, too, even when they all end up in Hawaii together. Naturally, further complications ensue, especially when Katherine's nemesis (Nicole Kidman, simultaneously frozen and broad) suddenly arrives with her pushy husband (Dave Matthews). 
  
  
  
 Writers Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling have lazily adapted their crude, formulaic screenplay from 1969's "Cactus Flower," a movie that also relied heavily on the charms of its leads (including an Oscar-winning Goldie Hawn). 
  
  
  
 Unlike Hawn, however, Decker brings only her obvious assets to the role, so director Dennis Dugan shoots her swimming and showering, leaving the heavy lifting to the experts. 
  
  
  
 Sandler, who's worked with Dugan since "Happy Gilmore," is so relaxed and amiable it often seems as though he's improvising. And Aniston keeps up nicely, with a looseness that's been lacking in her recent films. 
  
  
  
 But that only makes this wasted opportunity--which never feels like anything more than a swiftly-brokered deal between their agents--increasingly frustrating. And when our ever-underachieving heroine looks at the beautiful, utterly bland Decker and sighs, "I'm not that," you can't help wishing she'd say it with a little more pride. 
  
 Don't Miss: It's no surprise when Decker rocks a bikini. But who would have expected Kidman and Aniston to throw down in the fiercest hula battle in cinematic history? ||||| The best thing about the new Adam Sandler comedy "Just Go With It" (I'm assuming "Just Bear With Me" was already taken) is Rachel. And by that I mean Jennifer Aniston , playing a slight variation of the pretty, pragmatic waitress with great hair and even better comic timing whom America (or large parts of it) fell in love with over the 10-year run of "Friends."In "Just Go With It," whose title really has to be read as a plea from the filmmakers, given all the leaps of faith they want you to take with a movie that's really more like a loose improv session, or an extended party game — oh wait, what was I saying…Aniston plays Katherine, a single mom working as an assistant to Sandler's successful plastic surgeon, and she's got the frumpy wardrobe to prove it. If you're inclined to buy the premise, the way for a nerdy guy to bed an endless succession of great-looking chicks is to pretend he's married. I gather it's all part of the feminine mystique as defined by boobs (as in boys, not breasts) that a wedding ring and a bad marriage are the ultimate aphrodisiac. Right.Anyway, Dr. Danny has finally met a gorgeous girl ( Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl Brooklyn Decker ) who likes him even without the wedding ring. Since he really likes this girl back, when she discovers his fake gold band and declares she won't date a married man, he undertakes a cover-up of Watergate proportions to try to keep her. The plan involves getting Katherine to pose as his wife, conscripting her kids, concocting a divorce, funding a "Pretty Woman" makeover and before you can say, "Huh?" the new girlfriend, the fake ex, the fake kids and the fake ex's fake flame ( Nick Swardson ) are off to Hawaii to swim with dolphins. Don't ask.The whole idea somehow seemed more plausible in 1969 when the screen version of "Cactus Flower" was first trotted out, winning Goldie Hawn an Oscar for her turn as the girlfriend. It was based on the Tony-winning stage play, which itself was based on the French stage play, which makes sense. After all, if anyone knows what to do with a sexy farce it's the French.Still, the movie is a good fit for Aniston. One of her gifts, which director Dennis Dugan , a long-time Sandler collaborator, exploits in a good way is her ability to look as believable in a shapeless, off-the-rack shift and sandals as in a body-hugging, off-the-shoulder mini and stilettos. But — and this is the big one that most of Hollywood doesn't get since they keep casting her in one failed romantic comedy after another — he also understands that while she's hot, she's not, as in mouth-drooling, pulse-racing, temperature-raising hot. Her on-screen kisses and clinches are more sisterly and sincere than sexy. Maybe she's a slow burner, but at least on screen, no one has figured out yet how to light that fire.All of those girl-next-door, punch-you-in-the-arm-if-she-likes-you qualities make a good comic match for Sandler, though, who's got the whole not-sexy thing going too. His nerdy naughty-but-nice persona has proved appealing to males and females alike, and coupled with his mumble-funny self-deprecating patter, it has made him a box-office billionaire ($3 billion and counting), which means Hollywood will let him do whatever he wants. And that is what happens here.There's not much to say about Dugan's directing; even he admits in the production notes that his main job is to let Sandler be Sandler. Ditto writers Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling. Their screenplay may be based on "Cactus Flower" but it's been pureed almost beyond recognition in the Sandler blender. There's a wacky mean-girl turn by Nicole Kidman , who plays Devlin, Katherine's old college nemesis. Complications abound when they bump into each other in Hawaii, and not just in that old-scores-to-settle way. Devlin is what Katherine has adopted as her fake wife name, and it's also what her kids and Dr. Danny call poop. So along with all the other potty-mouth stuff, there is a lot of Devlin name-dropping going on. Ha, ha, ha.The kids, Bailee Madison ("Bridge to Terabithia") and Griffin Gluck, have some cute bits as the precocious sort who squeeze a lot out of Dr. Danny in return for calling him Dad. Decker definitely has what it takes to look really good in an itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie … or at least I think that's what the filmmakers meant when they raved about her "natural talent." Swardson has his moments masquerading as the fake boyfriend, essentially providing the outrageous to counterbalance the generally low-key comedy elsewhere, though there is a sheep punch line that gets punched a few times too many.If you're a Sandler film buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. Still, the best thing about the movie remains Aniston — she is reason enough to just go with it. |||||
– Critics think Just Go With It isn’t too memorable—a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, though fans are much kinder at 79%—but they say stars Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler turn in solid performances: To AO Scott, it will forever be just “‘that one with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Hawaii,’” he writes in the New York Times. “Which pretty much sums up both the appeal and the limitations of this passive-aggressive, naughty but nice, sometimes obnoxious and occasionally quite funny late-winter romantic comedy." Aniston basically plays her Friends character, writes Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times. “If you're a Sandler film buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. Still, the best thing about the movie remains Aniston—she is reason enough to just go with it.” In the New York Daily News, Elizabeth Weitzman is a little harsher: the stars “do work well together, in the sense that both are charismatic pros who know how to sell a project. But frankly, it's depressing to watch two likable talents pushing such a blatantly empty experience.”
Sammanfatta den här artikeln: Bara gå med det (2011) Jag bör börja med att erkänna att jag tillbringade mycket tid innan visningen av “Bara gå med det” — och några sträckor medan det faktiskt pågår — försöker komma ihåg vad den jäkla sak hette. Jag kanske måste slå upp titeln ytterligare några gånger innan denna recension är klar, och filmen är sannolikt att leva vidare i mitt minne (i den mån den kommer) som "den där med Adam Sandler och Jennifer Aniston på Hawaii." Vilket ganska mycket sammanfattar både lockelsen och begränsningarna i denna passiv-aggressiva, stygga men trevliga, ibland vidriga och ibland ganska roliga sent vinterromantiska komedi. ”Just Go With It” nyinspelningar, uppdateringar, kryddor upp och tonar ner en film från 1969 som heter ”Cactus Flower”. Utan att gå in på nostalgi av tillbakagång – dra dina egna slutsatser av att den roll som Aniston nu tog på den tiden tillhörde Ingrid Bergman – jag måste säga att den gamla titeln var mycket bättre. Det är taggigt och stickande, medan den nya versionen knappt stiger till nivån av en slogan och verkar ha utformats för att hetsa sökmotorer snarare än kött-och-blod publik. Ändå är den här filmen bättre än “Grown Ups” eller “The Bounty Hunter” eller den med Ms Aniston och Aaron Eckhart att jag inte kan besväras av Google just nu. Mr Sandler spelar Danny Macabee, en förmögen, obunden Los Angeles plastikkirurg vars tidiga hjärtesorg, på vad som skulle vara hans bröllopsdag, har godkänt 20 år av skuldlös promiskuitet. Danny bär en vigselring, som han tillbehör med påhittade historier om extrem äktenskaplig ve för att säkerställa en ändlös sträng av no-strings hookups. Men så en kväll träffar han Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), en 23-årig skollärare med en superb navel, och när de vaknar tillsammans på stranden tror han att hon kan vara Den Ende. Vilket betyder att Danny måste skilja sig från sin obefintliga fru, som hans nya älskling insisterar på att träffa. Han rekryterar sin mångåriga assistent och receptionist, Katherine (Ms. Aniston), och behandlar henne till en Beverly Hills shopping makeover som gör att denna mousy ensamstående mamma kan avslöja att hon varit en räv hela tiden. Efterspelet gör också att ms Aniston kan visa upp sina ibland-dormant (som i att Aaron Eckhart sak) komiska talanger, som är lika vassa och stilrena som hennes skor och kläder. Katherines första möte med Palmer – där ms Aniston, eller snarare hennes karaktär, utger sig för att vara en boozy, cynisk Los Angeles änkeman – är också en av en handfull livliga och framgångsrika serieuppsättningar som håller filmen från att falla ner i by-the-numbers hacka arbete. (Detta är en lika bra tid som någon att nämna att regissören är Dennis Dugan, som har kompetent styrt ett antal andra Adam Sandler fordon, inklusive "Happy Gilmore" och "You Don't Mess With the Zohan.") Nick Swardson dyker upp för fånig-sidekick plikt som Danny förlorar kusin Eddie, som spenderar mycket av filmen låtsas vara en nördig tysk Internet fårmäklare vid namn Dolph Lundgren. Det är logiskt i sammanhanget, eller rättare sagt inte, vilket är bra, eftersom Mr Sandlers filmer fungerar bäst när sentimentaliteten och självgratulationen störs av anarkiskt nonsens. Och berättelsen, härledd av manusförfattarna Allan Loeb och Timothy Dowling, från två scenpjäser genom mig. A. L. Diamonds "Cactus Flower" skript, innehåller tillräckligt ren fars för att generera lite fart och överraskning. Katherines inledande, motvilliga impostur är komplicerad när Palmer upptäcker att hon har en dotter (Bailee Madison) och en son (Griffin Gluck), vars far Danny då måste låtsas vara. Mr Sandler, som byggt en karriär på barnslighet, verkar ofta bekvämare att fjäska runt med barn (eller andra mognadsresistenta vuxna män) än att få alla kärleksduvor med vuxna kvinnor. Och i sina scener med dessa barn visar han både påträngande, oförskämd lekfullhet och generositet, hjälper de unga artisterna att höja sig över generisk filmbrat söthet och tjäna lite skratt på egen hand. Allt som allt är inte förhållandet mellan hit-to-miss av “Bara gå med det” så hemskt. Vilket inte betyder att filmen är något speciellt. Den sexuella politiken i “Kaktusblomman” är intressant tafatt, ser oroligt tillbaka till 50-talet och flinar vid uppkomsten av feminism, men denna version ibland släpper lös en okänd sorl av regression och förbittring. Ingen av kvinnorna har egna professionella ambitioner eller pengar; deras främsta tillgång är "hethethet". Ms Aniston visar stolt upp sig i bikini — och ser bra ut, måste det sägas — medan Mr Sandler håller skjortan på sig, hängande löst över sina säckiga byxor. Ja, jag vet, dubbelmoralen är inget nytt, men en kvickare, mindre osäker film kanske åtminstone hade haft lite kul med den. Men mr Sandler är inte riktigt villig att riskera att göra narr av sig själv. Han är för mycket av en översittare för det. Den infantila fientlighet som alltid har varit en del av hans schtick verkar allt tröttare, och “Just Go With It” är fläckad med elaka, lata munkavlar. Det finns någon billig homofobi i slutet, och en hel del av den typ av kvinnohat som behandlar existensen av icke-tunna, icke-rika, icke-vita kvinnor som ett skämt i sig. Å andra sidan finns den mycket tunna, mycket rika och extremt bleka karaktären spelad av Nicole Kidman, som dyker upp, när handlingen har flyttat till Hawaii, för att fungera som en folie för Ms Aniston och för att påminna tittarna om hennes egna komiska talanger. Hon verkar ha en ganska bra tid, liksom de flesta andra artister, som om filmen följde råd av sin geniala, glömska titel. “Bara Go With It” är klassad PG-13 (Föräldrarna varnas starkt). Det är ofta risqué, men alltid säkert. Bara gå med det öppnar på fredag rikstäckande. Regisserad av Dennis Dugan; skriven av Allan Loeb och Timothy Dowling, baserad på filmmanuset "Cactus Flower" av I. A. L. Diamond och scenspelet av Abe Burrows, baserat på en fransk pjäs av Barillet och Gredy; regissör för fotografi, Theo Van de Sande; redigerad av Tom Costain; musik av Rupert Gregson-Williams; produktionsdesign av Perry Andelin Blake; kostymer av Ellen Lutter; producerade av Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo och Heather Parry; släppt av Columbia Pictures. Körtid: 1 timme 50 minuter. MED: Adam Sandler (Danny), Jennifer Aniston (Katherine), Nick Swardson (Eddie), Brooklyn Decker (Palmer), Dave Matthews (Ian Maxtone Jones), Bailee Madison (Maggie), Kevin Nealon (Adon), Griffin Gluck (Michael) och Nicole Kidman (Devlin Adams). Just Go With It 'Just Go With It' recension: Jennifer Aniston och Adam Sandler driver tom rom-com upplevelse Sony Pictures 'Just Go With It', med Jennifer Aniston och Adam Sandler i huvudrollerna, har gott om kemi men det är en tom rom-com som helhet. Romantisk komedi om vänner som låtsas vara makar. Med Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston. Regi: Dennis Dugan (1:56). PG-13: grov humor, sexualitet. På teatern i området. Vad är det med Jennifer Aniston? Engagemangsproblem? Låg självkänsla? Det måste finnas en anledning till att hon gör så många dåliga val. Jag talar naturligtvis om hennes smak i manus, vilket är så förbryllande att det är dags att föreslå antingen terapi eller en förändring i ledningen. Förbannelsen slår till igen i "Just Go With It", en kvicksint rom-com som endast är marginellt bevakningsbar tack vare Aniston och hennes costar, Adam Sandler. De fungerar bra tillsammans, i den meningen att båda är karismatiska proffs som vet hur man säljer ett projekt. Men ärligt talat är det deprimerande att se två sympatiska talanger driva på en så flagrant tom upplevelse. Avstängningen av misstron börjar omedelbart, när vi lär oss att Anistons Katherine är en sur, singel receptionist som arbetar för Sandlers Danny, en playboy plastikkirurg. Under tiden spelar supermodellen Brooklyn Decker Palmer, den tjugonågot lärare som faller direkt för Danny. Dessvärre slår deras romans till en hake när hon hittar den falska vigselringen han använder för att förföra ensamstående kvinnor. Eftersom han antyder att han ska skiljas insisterar hon på att få träffa hans ex – att spelas, naturligtvis, av Katherine. Och när Katherines barn dyker upp måste Danny låtsas att de är hans också, även när de alla hamnar på Hawaii tillsammans. Naturligtvis följer ytterligare komplikationer, särskilt när Katherines nemesis (Nicole Kidman, samtidigt frusen och bred) plötsligt anländer med sin påträngande make (Dave Matthews). Författarna Allan Loeb och Timothy Dowling har latt nog anpassat sitt grova, formelmässiga manus från 1969 års "Cactus Flower", en film som också förlitade sig kraftigt på charmen i sina leads (bland annat en Oscarvinnande Goldie Hawn). Till skillnad från Hawn för dock Decker bara med sig sina uppenbara tillgångar till rollen, så regissören Dennis Dugan skjuter hennes simning och duschande, vilket lämnar det tunga lyftet till experterna. Sandler, som har jobbat med Dugan sen "Happy Gilmore", är så avslappnad och vänlig att det ofta verkar som om han improviserar. Och Aniston håller jämna steg, med en lösaktighet som har saknats i hennes senaste filmer. Men det gör bara detta bortkastade tillfälle - som aldrig känns som något mer än en snabb-handlad affär mellan sina agenter - allt mer frustrerande. Och när vår underdåniga hjältinna ser på den vackra, helt intetsägande Decker och suckar: "Jag är inte det", kan man inte låta bli att önska att hon skulle säga det med lite mer stolthet. Det är ingen överraskning när Decker rockar bikini. Men vem hade väntat sig att Kidman och Aniston skulle kasta ner sig i filmhistoriens häftigaste hulastrid? Det bästa med den nya Adam Sandler-komedin "Just Go With It" (jag antar att "Just Bear With Me" redan var tagen) är Rachel. Och med det menar jag Jennifer Aniston, spelar en liten variation av den vackra, pragmatiska servitrisen med bra hår och ännu bättre komisk timing som Amerika (eller stora delar av det) blev förälskad i under 10-årskörningen av "Vänner. "I "Just Go With It", vars titel verkligen måste läsas som en vädjan från filmskaparna, med tanke på alla de hopp av tro de vill att du ska ta med en film som är verkligen mer som en lös improvisation session, eller en utökad parti spel — oh vänta, vad jag sa ... Aniston spelar Katherine, en ensamstående mamma arbetar som assistent till Sandler framgångsrika plastikkirurg, och hon har den fryntiga garderoben för att bevisa det. Om du är benägen att köpa premissen, är sättet för en nördig kille att sova en oändlig följd av snygga brudar att låtsas att han är gift. Jag förstår att det är en del av den feminina mystik som definieras av bröst (som hos pojkar, inte bröst) att en vigselring och ett dåligt äktenskap är den ultimata afrodisiakum. Hur som helst, Dr Danny har äntligen träffat en vacker flicka ( Sports Illustrerad baddräkt cover flicka Brooklyn Decker ) som gillar honom även utan vigselringen. Eftersom han verkligen gillar denna flicka tillbaka, när hon upptäcker hans falska guldband och förklarar att hon inte kommer att dejta en gift man, åtar han sig en mörkläggning av Watergate proportioner för att försöka behålla henne. Planen är att få Katherine att låtsas vara sin fru, bevära sina barn, koka en skilsmässa, finansiera en "Pretty Woman" makeover och innan du kan säga "Huh?" Den nya flickvännen, det falska exet, de falska barnen och det falska exets falska låga (Nick Swardson) är på väg till Hawaii för att simma med delfiner. Fråga inte.Hela idén verkade på något sätt mer trovärdig 1969 när skärmversionen av "Cactus Flower" först travades ut, och vann Goldie Hawn en Oscar för sin tur som flickvän. Den var baserad på det Tony-vinnande scenspelet, som i sig byggde på det franska scenspelet, vilket är vettigt. När allt kommer omkring, om någon vet vad man ska göra med en sexig fars så är det fransmännen.Ändå passar filmen bra för Aniston. En av hennes gåvor, som regissören Dennis Dugan, en långvarig Sandler-samarbetspartner, utnyttjar på ett bra sätt är hennes förmåga att se lika trovärdig ut i ett formlöst, off-the-rack skift och sandaler som i en kroppskramande, off-the-axel mini och stilett. Men — och det här är den stora som de flesta i Hollywood inte får sedan de fortsätter att kasta henne i den ena misslyckade romantiska komedin efter den andra — han förstår också att medan hon är het, är hon inte, som i mundränkande, puls-racande, temperatur-höjande varm. Hennes kyssar på skärmen är mer systerliga och uppriktiga än sexiga. Kanske är hon en långsam brännare, men åtminstone på skärmen, har ingen kommit på hur man tänder elden.Alla dessa tjej-nästa-dörr, slag-du-i-armen-om-hon-gillar-du-egenskaper gör dock en bra komisk match för Sandler, som har hela inte-sexig sak på gång också. Hans nördiga stygga men trevliga persona har visat sig tilltalande för både män och kvinnor, och i kombination med hans mummelroliga självföraktande patter, har det gjort honom till en lådmiljardär (3 miljarder dollar och räkning), vilket innebär att Hollywood kommer att låta honom göra vad han vill. Och det är vad som händer här.Det finns inte mycket att säga om Dugans regi; även han erkänner i produktionsanteckningarna att hans främsta uppgift är att låta Sandler vara Sandler. Ditto-författarna Allan Loeb och Timothy Dowling. Deras filmmanus kan vara baserat på "Cactus Flower" men det har putsats nästan oigenkännligt i Sandler mixern. Nicole Kidman spelar Devlin, Katherines gamla collegenemesis. Komplikationer överflödar när de stöter på varandra på Hawaii, och inte bara på det där gamla-scores-to-stle sättet. Devlin är vad Katherine har adopterat som sitt fejkade frunamn, och det är också vad hennes barn och dr Danny kallar bajs. Så tillsammans med alla de andra pot-mun grejerna, det är en hel del Devlin namn-släppande pågår. Barnen, Bailey Madison ("Bridge till Terabithia") och Griffin Gluck, har några söta bitar som den brådmogena sorten som klämmer mycket ur Dr Danny i gengäld för att ha kallat honom pappa. Decker har definitivt vad som krävs för att se riktigt bra ut i en itsy-bitsy, tonåring-weenie ... eller åtminstone tror jag att det var vad filmskaparna menade när de ravade om hennes "naturliga talang." Swardson har sina stunder maskerad som den falska pojkvännen, i huvudsak ger skandalösa att motväga den allmänt lågmälda komedin någon annanstans, även om det finns ett får poäng linje som blir slagna några gånger för många.Om du är en Sandler film buff, komedin är klassisk Sandler och kommer förmodligen att tillfredsställa. Men det bästa med filmen är fortfarande Aniston — hon är skäl nog att bara följa den. Â°°
Summarize this article: Just join it (2011) I should start by admitting that I spent a lot of time before the screening of “Just Join It” — and a few stretches while it's actually going on — trying to remember what the damn thing was called. I may have to look up the title a few more times before this review is finished, and the film is likely to live on in my memory (to the extent it comes) as "that one with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Hawaii." Which pretty much sums up both the appeal and limitations of this passive-aggressive, naughty but pleasant, sometimes disgusting and sometimes quite funny late winter romantic comedy. “Just Go With It” remakes, updates, spices up and downplays a 1969 film called “Cactus Flower”. Without going into the nostalgia of decline – draw your own conclusions from the fact that the role that Aniston now took at the time belonged to Ingrid Bergman – I have to say that the old title was much better. It is prickly and prickly, while the new version barely rises to the level of a slogan and appears to have been designed to incite search engines rather than meat-and-blood audiences. Yet this movie is better than “Grown Ups” or “The Bounty Hunter” or the one with Ms. Aniston and Aaron Eckhart that I can’t be bothered by Google right now. Mr. Sandler plays Danny Macabee, a wealthy, untied Los Angeles plastic surgeon whose early heartbreak, on what would be his wedding day, has approved 20 years of guiltless promiscuity. Danny wears a wedding ring, which he accessories with fictional stories of extreme marital woes to ensure an endless string of no-string hoocups. But then one night he meets Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a 23-year-old schoolteacher with a superb navel, and when they wake up together on the beach he thinks she might be The One. Which means Danny has to divorce his nonexistent wife, whom his new sweetheart insists on seeing. He recruits his longtime assistant and receptionist, Katherine (Ms. Aniston), and treats her to a Beverly Hills shopping makeover that allows this mousy single mother to reveal that she has been a fox all along. The afterplay also allows Ms. Aniston to showcase her sometimes-dormant (as in the Aaron Eckhart thing) comical talents, which are as sharp and stylish as her shoes and clothes. Katherine's first encounter with Palmer—where Ms. Aniston, or rather her character, claims to be a boozy, cynical Los Angeles widower—is also one of a handful of lively and successful series sets that keep the film from falling into by-the-numbers hacking work. (This is as good a time as anyone to mention that the director is Dennis Dugan, who has competently governed a number of other Adam Sandler vehicles, including "Happy Gilmore" and "You Don't Mess With the Zohan.") Nick Swardson appears for silly-sidekick duty as Danny loses cousin Eddie, who spends much of the film pretending to be a nerdy German Internet sheep broker named Dolph Lundgren. It makes sense in the context, or rather not, which is good, because Mr. Sandler's films work best when sentimentality and self-gratulation are disrupted by anarchist nonsense. And the story, derived from screenwriters Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling, from two stage plays through me. A. L. Diamond's "Cactus Flower" script, contains enough pure farce to generate some speed and surprise. Katherine's initial, reluctant imposture is complicated when Palmer discovers she has a daughter (Bailee Madison) and a son (Griffin Gluck), whose father Danny must then pretend to be. Mr. Sandler, who built a career on childishness, often seems more comfortable to fawn around with children (or other mature-resistant adult men) than to have all love pigeons with adult women. And in his scenes with these children he shows both intrusive, rude playfulness and generosity, helping the young artists rise above generic film brat sweetness and earn some laugh on their own. All in all, the relationship between hit-to-miss of “Just go with it” is not so terrible. Which doesn't mean the movie is something special. The sexual policy of the “Cactus Flower” is interesting awkward, looking anxiously back to the 50s and grinning at the onset of feminism, but this version sometimes unleashes an unknown sorrel of regression and resentment. None of the women have their own professional ambitions or money; their main asset is "hotness". Ms. Aniston proudly shows off in bikinis — and looks good, it has to be said — while Mr. Sandler is holding his shirt, hanging loose over her baggy pants. Yeah, I know, double standards are nothing new, but a smarter, less insecure film might at least have had some fun with it. But Mr. Sandler is not quite willing to risk making fun of himself. He's too much of a bully for that. The infantile hostility that has always been a part of his schtick seems increasingly tiring, and “Just Go With It” is stained with mean, lazy gags. There is some cheap homophobia at the end, and a lot of the kind of misogyny that treats the existence of non-thin, non-rich, non-white women as a joke in itself. On the other hand, there is the very thin, very rich and extremely pale character played by Nicole Kidman, who appears, when the plot has moved to Hawaii, to serve as a foil for Ms. Aniston and to remind viewers of her own comical talents. She seems to have a pretty good time, like most other artists, as if the film were following advice from her ingenious, forgetful title. “Only Go With It” is rated PG-13 (Parents are strongly warned). It is often risqué, but always safe. Just go with it opens on Friday nationwide. Directed by Dennis Dugan; written by Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling, based on the screenplay "Cactus Flower" by I. A. L. Diamond and the stage play of Abe Burrows, based on a French play by Barillet and Gredy; director of photography, Theo Van de Sande; edited by Tom Costain; music by Rupert Gregson-Williams; production design by Perry Andelin Blake; costumes by Ellen Lutter; produced by Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo and Heather Parry; released by Columbia Pictures. Driving time: 1 hour 50 minutes. MED: Adam Sandler (Danny), Jennifer Aniston (Katherine), Nick Swardson (Eddie), Brooklyn Decker (Palmer), Dave Matthews (Ian Maxtone Jones), Baileye Madison (Maggie), Kevin Nealon (Adon), Griffin Gluck (Michael) and Nicole Kidman (Devlin Adams). Just Go With It 'Just Go With It' review: Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler run empty rum-com experience Sony Pictures 'Just Go With It', starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, has plenty of chemistry but it's an empty rum-com as a whole. Romantic comedy about friends pretending to be husbands. With Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston. Director: Dennis Dugan (1:56). PG-13: gross humor, sexuality. In the theater in the area. What about Jennifer Aniston? Commitment issues? Low self-esteem? There must be a reason she makes so many bad choices. I am, of course, talking about her taste in scripts, which is so perplexing that it is time to propose either therapy or a change in management. The curse strikes again in "Just Go With It", a quicksint rom-com that is only marginally guardable thanks to Aniston and her costar, Adam Sandler. They work well together, in the sense that both are charismatic professionals who know how to sell a project. But frankly, it's depressing to see two sympathetic talents pushing such a blatantly empty experience. The suspension of distrust begins immediately, when we learn that Aniston's Katherine is a sour, single receptionist working for Sandler's Danny, a playboy plastic surgeon. Meanwhile, supermodel Brooklyn Decker Palmer, the twenty-something teacher who falls directly for Danny, plays. Unfortunately, their romance strikes a catch when she finds the fake wedding ring he uses to seduce single women. Since he suggests he is getting a divorce, she insists on seeing his ex-girlfriend – to be played, of course, by Katherine. And when Katherine's kids show up, Danny has to pretend they're his too, even when they all end up in Hawaii together. Of course, further complications follow, especially when Katherine's nemesis (Nicole Kidman, while frozen and wide) suddenly arrives with her intrusive husband (Dave Matthews). Writers Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling have lat enough adapted their rough, formulaical script from the 1969 "Cactus Flower", a film that also relied heavily on the charm of its leads (including an Oscar-winning Goldie Hawn). However, unlike Hawn, Decker only brings his obvious assets to the role, so director Dennis Dugan shoots her swimming and showering, leaving the heavy lifting to the experts. Sandler, who has worked with Dugan since Happy Gilmore, is so relaxed and friendly that it often seems that he is improvising. And Aniston keeps up, with a looseness that has been missing in her recent films. But it just makes this wasted opportunity - which never feels like anything more than a fast-traded deal between its agents - increasingly frustrating. And when our subservient heroine looks at the beautiful, completely bland Decker and sighs: "I'm not," one cannot help but wish she would say it with a little more pride. It's no surprise when Decker rocks bikinis. But who would have expected Kidman and Aniston to throw themselves into the coolest hula battle in film history? The best thing about the new Adam Sandler comedy "Just Go With It" (I guess "Just Bear With Me" was already taken) is Rachel. And by that I mean Jennifer Aniston, playing a small variety of the beautiful, pragmatic waitress with good hair and even better comic timing as America (or much of it) fell in love with during the 10-year run of "Friends. "In "Just Go With It", whose title really has to be read as an appeal from the filmmakers, given all the hopes of believing they want you to bring a film that is really more like a loose improvisation session, or an extended party game — oh wait, what I said...Aniston plays Katherine, a single mother works as an assistant to Sandler successful plastic surgeon, and she has the frowny wardrobe to prove it. If you're inclined to buy the premise, the way for a nerdy guy to sleep is an endless succession of hot chicks to pretend he's married. I understand that it is part of the feminine mystery defined by breasts (as in boys, not breasts) that a wedding ring and a bad marriage are the ultimate aphrodisiac. Anyway, Dr Danny has finally met a beautiful girl ( Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover girl Brooklyn Decker) who likes him even without the wedding ring. Because he really likes this girl back, when she discovers his fake gold band and explains that she will not date a married man, he undertakes a cover-up of Watergate proportions to try to keep her. The plan is to get Katherine to pretend to be her wife, conjure her children, boil a divorce, finance a "Pretty Woman" makeover and before you can say "Huh?" The new girlfriend, the fake ex, the fake kids and the fake ex's fake flame (Nick Swardson) are heading to Hawaii to swim with dolphins. The whole idea seemed somehow more credible in 1969 when the screen version of "Cactus Flower" was first trotted out, winning Goldie Hawn an Oscar for his turn as a girlfriend. It was based on the Tony-winning stage play, which itself was based on the French stage play, which makes sense. After all, if anyone knows what to do with a sexy farce, it's the French. One of her gifts, which director Dennis Dugan, a long-term Sandler partner, utilizes well is her ability to look as credible in a formless, off-the-rack shift and sandals as in a body-cracking, off-the-axis mini and stiletto. But — and this is the big one that most in Hollywood don't get since they keep throwing her into one failed romantic comedy after another — he also understands that while she's hot, she's not, like in mouth-drinking, pulse-racing, temperature-raising hot. Her on-screen kisses are more sisterly and sincere than sexy. Maybe she's a slow burner, but at least on screen, no one's figured out how to light the fire.All these girl-next-door, punch-you-in-the-arm-if-she-likes-you-properties, however, make a great comedic match for Sandler, who has the whole not-sexy thing going on as well. His nerdy naughty but nice persona has proved appealing to both men and women, and combined with his mumble-fun self-loathing patter, it has made him a box-billionaire (3 billion dollars and bill), meaning Hollywood will let him do whatever he wants. And that's what's happening here.There's not much to say about Dugan's directorship; also he admits in the production notes that his primary task is to let Sandler be Sandler. Ditto writers Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling. Their screenplay may be based on "Cactus Flower" but it has been plastered almost unrecognized in the Sandler blender. Nicole Kidman plays Devlin, Katherine's old college nemesis. Complications abound when they run into each other in Hawaii, and not just in that old-scores-to-stle way. Devlin is what Katherine has adopted as her fake wife name, and that's also what her children and Dr. Danny call poop. So along with all the other pot-mouth stuff, there's a lot of Devlin name-dropping going on. The children, Bailey Madison ("Bridge to Terabithia") and Griffin Gluck, have some sweet pieces like the precocious kind that squeezes a lot out of Dr. Danny in return for calling him Dad. Decker definitely has what it takes to look really good in an itsy-bitsy, teen-weenie...or at least I think that's what the filmmakers meant when they raved about her "natural talent." Swardson has his moments masquerading as the fake boyfriend, essentially providing scandalous counterbalance to the generally low-key comedy elsewhere, although there is a few point line that gets beaten a few times too many.If you are a Sandler film buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. But the best thing about the film is still Aniston — she is reason enough to just follow it. <unk>
– Kritiker tror Just Go With Det är inte alltför minnesvärda – en 23-procentig rating på Rotten Tomatoes, även om fans är mycket snällare på 79% – men de säger att stjärnorna Jennifer Aniston och Adam Sandler vänder sig i solida föreställningar: För AO Scott kommer det för alltid att vara bara “”den där med Adam Sandler och Jennifer Aniston på Hawaii,”” skriver han i New York Times. — Vilket i stort sett sammanfattar både lockelsen och begränsningarna i denna passiv-aggressiva, stygga men trevliga, stundom vidriga och stundom ganska lustiga senvinterromantiska komedi. Aniston spelar i princip sin Friends-karaktär, skriver Betsy Sharkey i Los Angeles Times. — Är man en Sandler-filmbuff, så är komedin klassisk Sandler och kommer nog att tillfredsställa. Ändå, det bästa med filmen förblir Aniston-hon är skäl nog att bara gå med på det. "I New York Daily News, Elizabeth Weitzman är lite hårdare: stjärnorna "gör fungerar bra tillsammans, i den meningen att båda är karismatiska proffs som vet hur man säljer ett projekt. Men ärligt talat, det är deprimerande att se två sympatiska talanger driva en så flagrant tom upplevelse.”
– Critics believe Just Go With It's not too memorable – a 23% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although fans are much nicer at 79% – but they say that stars Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler turn in solid performances: For AO Scott, it will forever be just “the one with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in Hawaii,” he writes in the New York Times. “Which basically sums up both the appeal and the limitations of this passive-aggressive, naughty but pleasant, sometimes disgusting and sometimes quite amusing late-winter romantic comedy. Aniston basically plays his Friends character, writing Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times. “If you’re a Sandler movie buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. Yet, the best thing about the film remains Aniston-she is reason enough to just agree to it. "In the New York Daily News, Elizabeth Weitzman is a little harder: the stars "do work well together, in the sense that both are charismatic professionals who know how to sell a project. But honestly, it is depressing to see two sympathetic talents driving such a blatantly empty experience.”