![]() Why did you decide to do that and is it true that your daughter suggested it? Salma, this is the first movie where we’ve seen you credited with your married name Pinot. ![]() Maria Bello: Did you take that black dress from the movie? On entering our interview, Maria Bello and Salma Hayek were already girl-talking. Salma Hayek joined fellow Grown Ups’ wives Maya Rudolph and Maria Bello - wearing chic suit jackets over jeans (Maria) or dress (Maya) - and we dished on the girls’ own family dramas, their hopes for their kids, reunions with old galpals, comedy timing and future projects. We spoke with Salma Hayek, casual and gorgeous in a royal blue silk sleeveless shorts-romper by Balenciaga and a pewter, long braided necklace with tassel by Gucci, before she spied a snake during a TV interview and freaked! Ah, the great outdoors. But apparently Sandler’s not grown up enough for that yet.SheKnows is up in the mountains above Malibu, California at the picturesque Malibou Lake Mountain Club to share an outdoorsy day with the stars of the new Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups. Mark Jenkins, NPR: “It might be time for the actor to play a character who more honestly embodies the hostility his performances exude. The guy who played Deuce Bigalow, Male Gigolo - twice - apparently said: No thanks, I’m busy.” But no, it’s a bad movie, too, just old-school bad, the kind that’s merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats.”Ĭonnie Ogle, Miami Herald: “All you need to know about this new movie? Rob Schneider sat this one out. Thus the bar gets lowered, and the temptation arises to say something nice about Grown Ups 2 just because it doesn’t cause injury. Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: “Indeed, if you scooped up someone from 500 years ago, some poor soul not inured to entertainment as a form of abuse, and made the unlucky victim sit through either The Lone Ranger or Pacific Rim, he’d probably go mad and never recover. His comic schtick has long been aimed at 13-year-old boys, but his latest efforts are an insult to adolescents of any age.” It’s all downhill from there.”Ĭlaudia Puig, USA Today: “This eye-rolling excursion in toilet humor seems all the more tone-deaf given that Sandler is a few years shy of 50. Put it this way: In the first five minutes, a deer walks into the star’s bedroom and urinates on his face. Matt Patches, Time Out New York: “Reuniting Sandler and his high-school buddies, Grown Ups 2‘s suburban vignettes find room for every lowbrow gag: chocolate-as-poop jokes, Shaquille O’Neal‘s clown faces, digs at transgender bodybuilders and the “burp snart” - a burp-sneeze-fart combo given more screen time than any of the female performers. Rather, he’s the white Tyler Perry: smart enough to know better, savvy enough to do it anyway, lazy enough not to care.” With the slack, lackadaisical effort of Grown Ups 2, Sandler has perhaps revealed himself not as a confrere of Apatow, who directed him in Funny People to a performance both crude and soulful. Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: “ Judd Apatow‘s recent This Is 40 more fully explored a similar anxiety of middle-age and the comedic pathos of everyday life with messily vibrant results. His onetime SNL brethren do themselves few favors - beyond a paycheck - by working in his orbit.ĪNALYSIS: ‘Grown Ups 2’: Adam Sandler’s Big Test Sandler has increasingly squandered his comic capital. With the debacles of That’s My Boy and Jack and Jill, Mr. At best, it sells itself on the spectacle of a TV show’s cast reunion - and even then it disappoints. Andy Webster, The New York Times: “This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance.
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