Just Go with It

You know how movies advertised as romantic comedies generally lead people into thinking there's a sense of romance or even some humor? Well, those people will have the rug pulled out from under them in Just Go with It, a movie that miraculously manages to contain not even 1% of comedy or romance.

Danny (Adam Sandler) is a dickhead who pretends he's in an awful marriage in order to attract other women. His latest conquest; Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) is totally into him...until she finds his ring. In order to trick her into thinking everything is okay, he has his receptionist; Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) pretend to be divorcing him and has her children go along with his stupid story in order to make her think that everything is okay. After the group eventually ends up in Hawaii, Katherine runs into an old frenemy; Devlin (Nicole Kidman), where she tries to convince her that she and Danny are a happy couple.

One of the basic problems with Just Go with It is that it's so ridiculously unfunny at times it's painful to watch. Not one laugh worthy moment in its' entire almost TWO HOUR LENGTH. Literally. Nothing is funny. The script is awful and the things that come out of the main characters' mouths, especially Danny's cousin; Eddie (Nick Swardson) are absolutely absurd that anyone on planet Earth would find this shit funny. Even Jennifer Aniston's charisma is totally flushed down the toilet based on the completely charmless and humorless things she is forced to say.

And seriously, isn't this like Adam Sandler's 10000th movie about some type of amateurish and contrived attempt to avoid commitment? In 50 First Dates, his crush has memory problems. In Click, he uses a remote control for his own selfish purposes while pushing his family and wife away. In I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, he pretends to be gay while falling for someone involved in his lie. In Anger Management, he has tons of anger problems and his therapist screws with him. This formula of juvenile and crass humor topped off with a bit of hokey, gooey, contrived attempts at having a heart just don't work. Adam Sandler plays the exact same character in every movie with similar problems about love, relationships, and commitment following right behind him. The formula is stale and generally lacks any real type of romance or sense of humor.

You can see everything coming in Just Go with It a mile before it shows up. The awkward contrivances that follow the main characters' snowballed lie, the scene where they both "realize" that while faking a romance, they're actually developing one in the process, the scene where Katherine and her arch rival; Devlin actually bond over sincerities and drop the lies to form a real frendship. It's all here sadly. Not one thing in Just Go with It can't be seen from intelligent (or hell, even comatose) life on other planets. And because of how trite and predictable the whole movie is, the events just don't feel like they have any ounce of a genuine nature to them. At times it feels like a really old sitcom that you're watching about the wacky situations people get into with love matters.

Just Go with It just really struggles to provide anything new or humorous. The formula of finding love in an unexpected place has been done since the cavemen were found on the lawn, except it's been done so much better in so many different movies. The writing is crass, unfunny, and just juvenile and trashy overall. Just Go with It just reaks of a poor attempt to cash in on Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler's fame. There's a running joke about how the name Devlin is equivalent to shit for Katherine's children in this movie. Just Go with Devlin would have been the perfect title for this piece of Devlin.

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