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. Since he implies he's getting a divorce, she insists on meeting his ex — to be played, of course, by Katherine. And the story, derived by the screenwriters Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling, from two stage plays by way of I. 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. 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). 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. 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).
– 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.”