Grown Ups seems to throw money at stupid-guy stereotypes

If you're planning on going to the movies this weekend, then the "Grown Ups" review may just effect your choice. "Grown Ups" is a guys-behaving-badly comedy that focuses on childhood friends who get together to re-connect. The "Grown Ups" reviews have been certainly mixed. This $ 70 million movie hopes to pull in at least enough viewership to pay the bills.

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Review of Grown Ups with the storyline

The basic storyline of "Grown Ups" is a review-friendly short and sweet. Four childhood friends get together as adults to reconnect and get to know each other as "Grown Ups.” They behave like stereotypical "bad boys" and play the whole thing for laughs. Peeing in pools, sexist jokes, and fat jokes abound.

What others want to say about Grown Ups

Grown Up reviews are positive only 8 percent of the time on Rotten Tomatoes. Most reviews for "Grown Ups" highlight the very lowbrow humor, lack of cohesive script, scattershot ideas and a stunted-feeling script. There is a concern that this movie is simply a vehicle for Adam Sandler -- much like last year's "Funny People" but more annoying. Grown Up stereotypes are really obvious. Unfortunately, the "Grown Ups" method of handling these overloaded stereotypes, though, is to overplay them time and over again. They are reinforcing stereotypes as much as possible.

The financials of the Grown Ups movie

"Grown Ups" is a comedy that, in the world of movies, didn't cost a heck of a lot to make A budget of "just" $ 70 million means that the movie only has to have a mediocre performance to pay back the actors, studio, distribution, and all other associated costs. Last year's Adam Sandler vehicle, Funny People, made somewhere around $ 23 million during the opening weekend. The bad-boy humor might pull in enough to make up the costs, but only barely.