Copains pour toujours 2

D’après mon expérience de spectateur, on est peut-être face à la plus grosse chute de qualité qui soit entre un film original et son numéro 2. Sandler occupe une position privilégiée dans mon classement et je ne compte pas le laisser redescendre, mais quel besoin a-t-il eu de sortir une suite à tout prix, alors que la réserve d'idées était épuisée ? Je me souviens encore du premier volet qui m’avait séduit par la simplicité du concept et régalé par les imbécilités d’une joyeuse bande de quadragénaires avec femmes et enfants. Je m'étais marré comme une baleine du début à la fin ! J’ai donc été extrêmement attiré par cette suite et je n’ai pas prêté attention aux critiques négatives. Dès le début avec la pisse du cerf, j’ai été pris d’un mauvais pressentiment, pressentiment qui n’a fait que croître à mesure que les minutes s’écoulaient, les âneries s’enchaînant les unes aux autres sans faire franchement dans la dentelle. Côté intrigue, n’en parlons même pas, et on se demande où a bien pu passer l’humour ! Le constat est d’autant plus accablant que la scène « sandlérienne » la plus drôle est celle où l’intéressé casse la jambe de son fils filmique. C’est bien parce que j’évite d’utiliser la note « Boo! », mais absolument rien ne vaut le déplacement dans ce nanar. Il y a juste Sandler qui mérite une certaine indulgence grâce à ses acquis. (15/05/2014)

Compared to the tolerable and at times quite entertaining first film, the sequel to Grown Ups barely borders on the tolerable. The worst part is that the stupid humor wasn't even funny anymore, and when I laughed I was also shaking my head (maybe at myself). Because these are exactly the "comedic" waters Adam Sandler shouldn't venture into anymore. I find it terribly forced, shallow, tastelessly infantile, and it stars Taylor Lautner to boot. Next time, it would need at least a micro-dose of perspective and at least a somewhat cinematic script – this was just a sequence of vignettes bizarrely pieced together into a feature film. (09/09/2018)

Much more exaggerated than the first installment, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's for the better. Some people don't appreciate this simple humor, others get it. I laughed at quite a few jokes again, but some were awkward for my taste, which says a lot :). However, the worst part was the use of CGI effects. Many people don't understand where those 80 million dollars went. That's a mystery to me too. Worse tricks are only found in B-movies and C-movies. For example, the moose that wasn't even a moose, but some sort of deer, looked absolutely terrible in motion. The final battle, on the other hand, was quite funny. The main actors, led by Adam Sandler, once again deliver what we're already used to from the first installment, but this time it's not quite the same, partly due to those young, unsympathetic characters... 65% (19/10/2013)

I understand that most people are now shaking their heads at me, wondering what got into me and why I am giving such a rating to this particular movie. I know it's exaggerated, it's really exaggerated, but don't I have at least one space for a little subjectivity? Well, this is exactly the moment and I would like to write something about the movie that made me laugh for most of its running time in the cinema. Yes, sometimes because some scenes were very awkward and stupid, but at that moment, I didn't mind at all. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2013/09/machri-2-2013-90.html (08/09/2013)

Perhaps a bit more successful than the previous Grown Ups, I even laughed a few times, but that doesn't mean it’s much praise for the film. As soon as there was pissing, vomiting and so on in the film, I asked myself if I really needed to watch that. Fortunately, Salma Hayek and humor, or a hint of it (the scene with the football, the injury and the hospital), occasionally appeared in the big mess that is this film. Of the 100 minutes, however, at least 80 were awkward. (04/10/2014)