15 Films Critics Got Right (But Audiences Got Wrong)

Rotten Tomatoes: 10% (Average rating: 3.3)

IMDb: 6.0

Yet another critically-panned movie that audiences gave a free-pass, this became Adam Sandler's highest-grossing movie ever.

In this one, five childhood friends (played by Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) reunite after thirty years and go to a lake-house with their families to hang out after their former basketball coach dies. That's it. No seriously, that is actually it.

There's no meaning, no character development, no plot, no substance and no structure. It's just five repulsive men mucking about in a series of offensive, stupid and occasionally disturbing bodily-function jokes. One entire running joke is Rock's mother-in-law sitting on a porch swing farting loudly; a terribly unfunny gag that sums up just how lazy this godawful movie is. Ironically, the only funny scene takes place during a funeral.

In fairness to general audiences, it is a certain type of silly humor which might appeal to some viewers more, but Grown Ups really doesn't work as a movie.

Badly acted, mean-spirited, offensive, lazy, juvenile, poorly directed and completely meaningless, Grown Ups is very hard to defend as even a two-star film, let alone the three-star film this rating indicates.

Luckily, IMDb votes judged its sequel (which made this look like Citizen Kane) with a far more appropiate 5.4 rating.

Should Be Rated: 5.5