Grown Ups (Blu-ray) (2010)

"...Grown Ups delivers.  James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"What kept me laughing is the genuine camaraderie among Sandler's posse...  Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times

Editor's Note Thirty years after graduating from high school, five former basketball teammates gather at the lake house where they celebrated their biggest victory to mourn the passing of their late coach. Over the course of the Fourth of July weekend, the five friends realize that just because they've all grown up and started families doesn't mean that they've lost that old spark. Adulthood is what you make of it, and no one at the lake house is eager to be the grown-up of the gang. Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, and Rob Schneider star in a film written by Sandler and Fred Wolf, and directed by Dennis Dugan (I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU CHUCK & LARRY, YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN). Maria Bello, Salma Hayek, and Maya Rudolph co-star.

	Chris Rock
	Adam Sandler
	Rob Schneider
	David Spade
	Kevin James
	Colin Quinn - Co-Star
	Adam Sandler - Screenwriter
	Michael Dilbeck - Music Director
	Theo Van De Sande - Director of Photography
	Daryl Kass - Production Manager/UPM
	Claire Kaufman - Set Decorator
	Barbara Olvera - Hairstylist
	Julia Walker - Hairstylist
	Rupert Gregson-Williams - Composer
	Brooks Arthur - Music Director
	Scott Rogers - Stunt Coordinator
	Greg Orloff - Sound Re-Recording
	Matt Rebenkoff - Assistant Director
	Matthew Hall - Special Effects
	Fred Wolf - Screenwriter
	Kevin Grady - Music Director
	Kathleen Freeman - Makeup Designer
	Tateum Kohut - Sound Re-Recording
	J.J. George - Music Editor
	Stuart Grusin - Music Editor
	Zoic Studios - Visual Effects Designer
	Mary Phillips - Makeup
	Alexis Walker - Makeup
	Corina C. Duran - Makeup
	Framework Studio LA - Visual Effects Designer
	Denise Paulson - Makeup
	Pierce E. Austin - Hairstylist
	Nancy Tong-Heater - Hairstylist
	John Ruggieri - Special Effects
	Lisa Deveaux - Makeup
	Clariss Morgan - Hairstylist
	Steve Buscemi - Co-Star
	Blake Clark - Co-Star
	Joyce Van Patten - Co-Star
	Dennis Dugan - Co-Star
	Tim Meadows - Co-Star
	Henriette Mantel - Co-Star
	Tim Herlihy - Co-Star
	Norm MacDonald - Co-Star
	Maria Bello - Co-Star
	Jonathan Loughran - Co-Star
	Maya Rudolph - Co-Star
	Ebony Jo-Ann - Co-Star
	Billy Concha - Co-Star
	Di Quon - Co-Star
	J.D. Donaruma - Co-Star
	Kevin Grady - Co-Star
	Dan Patrick - Co-Star
	Jake Goldberg - Co-Star
	China Anne Mclain - Co-Star
	Madison Riley - Co-Star
	Jamie Chung - Co-Star
	Cameron Boyce - Co-Star
	Salma Hayek - Co-Star
	Ashley Loren - Co-Star
	Alexys Nycole Sanchez - Co-Star
	Ada-Nicole Sanger - Co-Star
	Frank Gingerich - Co-Star
	Morgan Gingerich - Co-Star
	Nadji Jeter - Co-Star
	Richie Minervini - Co-Star
	Jackie Sandler - Co-Star
	Sadie Sandler - Co-Star
	Sunny Sandler - Co-Star
	Lisa M. Francis - Co-Star
	Berkeley Holman - Co-Star
	Michael Cavaleri - Co-Star
	Andrew Bayard - Co-Star
	Jameel McGill - Co-Star
	Kyle Brooks - Co-Star
	Joshua Matz - Co-Star
	Alec Musser - Co-Star
	Hunter Silva - Co-Star
	Christopher Borger - Co-Star
	Connor Panzner - Co-Star
	Jeremy Weaver - Co-Star
	Jonathan Crowley - Co-Star
	Daniel Cohen - Co-Star
	Dennis Dugan - Director

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith a marquee cast of popular funny men unloading all the slapstick gags and sarcastic zingers mainstream audiences want." 06/23/2010

Entertainment Weekly 7 of 10
Grown Ups suggests a new phase in Adam Sandler's career: Sandler as star-purveyor of mildly risque, middle-aged family-values comfort food. Directed by Dennis Dugan (You Don't Mess With the Zohan), the movie is about five schmoes in their early 40s who reunite at a lakeside cabin for the funeral of their old beloved basketball coach (who led them to victory when they were 12). Each of the characters has two traits and a warm heart; according to today's screenwriting math, that's three dimensions. Sandler is the Hollywood agent with a high-maintenance wife (Salma Hayek) and a trio of kids who are bratty, pampered technology nuts. Rob Schneider is a pompadoured vegan married to a hippie old enough to be his mother. Chris Rock is a househusband whose wife (Maya Rudolph) and mother-in-law keep his balls in a sling. David Spade is the drunken, lewd single guy, and Kevin James is a jolly loser whose wife (Maria Bello) still breast-feeds their 4-year-old son...For a while, the movie looks like Couples Retreat or a Tyler Perry house party, only instead of cookie-cutter conflicts, everyone just grows happier and more relaxed. There's a token sprinkle of gross-out gags (a giant bunion, a game of ''arrow roulette''), and Schneider's daughters are ridiculous leggy babes out of an old Warrant video, but mostly this is a comedy about five ordinary wisenheimers just hanging out, trying to top each other with insults and catch a break from the families they (mostly) love. The big climax? Everyone goes to a water park! Diverting enough to get by, Grown Ups is Adam Sandler growing up -- but not too much. - Owen Gleiberman