Without a doubt, "Grown Ups 2" is the worst movie I've seen this year.
It's fascinatingly bad - the film starts and... just continues to be starting. Every scene could be the beginning of the movie: there's no movement, no action, no incident to propel the characters or start the story.
That, and there's absolutely no laughs.
At one point, I thought the filmmakers were going for some kind of a Robert Altman-style of picture, where the camera seems to be browsing the scene, looking for interesting bits of human interaction. But no, with Grown Ups 2, it was just craft laziness - stick someone in front of the camera, make them say something to another character, make a fart joke, on to the next bit. Story lines start, then stop in virtually the same scene.
It goes on like that for 90 minutes.
It's fascinatingly bad - the film starts and... just continues to be starting. Every scene could be the beginning of the movie: there's no movement, no action, no incident to propel the characters or start the story.
That, and there's absolutely no laughs.
At one point, I thought the filmmakers were going for some kind of a Robert Altman-style of picture, where the camera seems to be browsing the scene, looking for interesting bits of human interaction. But no, with Grown Ups 2, it was just craft laziness - stick someone in front of the camera, make them say something to another character, make a fart joke, on to the next bit. Story lines start, then stop in virtually the same scene.
It goes on like that for 90 minutes.