“Grown Ups” is a disjointed comedy with only a few good laughs in it. The movie is basically like gathering your friends and your family for a week and bringing a camera along to record footage of yourselves acting like morons.

Five friends that played basketball back in the late 70s reunite for a Fourth of July weekend after their coach dies. A lot of unfunny things happen with this group of mixed individuals that you’d never normally view as friends. In a messed-up plot that really doesn’t amount to anything I can’t really say much more about it because it is all too weird.

Adam Sandler (“Billy Madison”, “Happy Gilmore”), Kevin James (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop”), Chris Rock (“Lethal Weapon 4”), David Spade (“Tommy Boy”) and Rob Schneider (“The Hot Chick”, “Judge Dredd”) are the leads and they offer virtually no laughs. Sandler who wrote the movie has made a character where he is ‘Mr. Perfect’ at everything (nice wife, good at basketball, rich etc…), which is annoying. Kevin James’ weight is poked at way too much. Chris Rock’s house husband isn’t funny. David Spade does virtually nothing. Rob Schneider creates the worst character as some vegan married to an old lady. The lead characters’ families generate only mild chuckles. Some laughs are generated by a character played by Steve Buscemi (“Reservoir Dogs”).

“Grown Ups” had me giggling at points but it seems like a very lazy film as I’m sure someone had a house in the middle of nowhere, got these actors together, founds they had some free tickets to a waterpark and then brought the camera out. Most of the jokes are really juvenile and unfunny. The movie also tries to have some morals and some realism but all of that is lost due to the weird script. Too many characters, weak jokes and a strange storyline make the film something to skip.