Just Go With It, based on the 1969 film
Cactus Flower, is the sixth movie that director Dennis Dugan and Adam Sandler have collaborated on, the most recent being last year’s
Grown Ups, and that familiarity comes across in this odd comedy. Dugan knows when to let Sandler do his thing -- surreal gags, absurd relationships, and wacky situations -- and when to rein him in, and while Sandler’s character, Danny, is sort of a prickly antihero, he plays him in way that makes you root for him in the end.
Danny (Sandler) is a fourtysomething successful plastic surgeon who pretends to be unhappily married to attract women barely out of college. Wh...
Released:
2011
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
116 mins