How mollyfocking bad is Grown Ups actually going to be, if the previews (which usually showcase the best bits of the film) you know, the ones that are being shown about every 3rd commercial or so, are featuring lines like that, and highlighting the comic genius of showing Kevin James pissing in a swimming pool filled with his children???
I always liked Kevin James on The King Of Queens (which was overall just another mediocre sit-com) but if this is what you get when he gets back together with Adam Sandler, along with Chris Rock and David Spade then I hope he goes back to being another failed sit-com star who couldn’t make it in the movies…
The casting for this movie makes it obvious that Kevin James is only in the movie because Chris Farley is dead. Besides James, it’s just a 90’s SNL reunion.
The only thing that’s intrigued me about the ads (besides Salma Hayek in a swimsuit) is this wonder technology that turns pee dark blue in a pool. Is this legit? Never heard of it (though never frequent public pools much anymore, either).
No idea, but I can’t think of who would actually have it put into their pool. You’d constantly have people fleeing the pool and not going back into it until you’d drained and cleaned it.
I suspect they were trying to copy the joke from Cadyshack (with the candy bar) without outright stealing it, so tried to come up with the next best thing.
That would be about par for Adam Sandler—Steal the lamest scene from Caddyshack (one of the 5 funniest films of all time) and make it one of the showcase bits of his pathetic new movie…
How did Adam Sandler get a film career after SNL???
As a kid, we were always told that the public pool had a chemical that turn your pee blue, so you shouldn’t pee in the pool. It was meant as a deterrent by scaring us kids. Of course, it wasn’t true.
I have no intention of ever seeing this movie, but I laugh hysterically at “I wanna get chocolate wasted!” in the preview! It’s just cute and nonsensical and it amuses me.
Seriously, you guys never heard of this idea before? It’s a pretty widespread urban legend that goes back at least to the early 80’s. I remember hearing about it in my childhood from friends who claimed that it would turn the pee blue, or green, or red (ick!). But after years of “testing” the claim in our local public pools, I never saw evidence of the any such chemical in use. In any case, the makers of this film didn’t just invent the idea in order to rip off a Caddyshack joke.
In an Entertainment Weekly interview with the cast, one of the ex-SNLers said that every time they were sitting around shooting the breeze and it started to turn into an SNL nostalgiafest, James would just get up and go get a sandwich. I bet he weighed 20 pounds more at the end of the shoot!
I saw it. It was horrible. I smiled for the first time about ten minutes before the movie ended. Then I smiled again when the closing credits music was the Kinks’ “Better Things.”