Directed by Dennis Dugan
(PG-13)
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Just Go With It is less a title worth remembering than an implicit “plea from the filmmakers,” said Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times. Adam Sandler often depends on the willingness of audiences to indulge his lackluster productions, and if you don’t mind flimsy plots, tasteless jokes, and men acting like giant children, this “classic Sandler” comedy will “probably satisfy”; a solid Jennifer Aniston is “reason enough to just go with it.” But only if you find some twisted pleasure in watching the romantic comedy emit its death rattle, said Dana Stevens in Slate.com. Sandler plays a plastic surgeon who pretends to be married to Aniston in order to win over a gorgeous 23-year-old (Brooklyn Decker). His character is so morally repulsive and charisma-challenged, you’d think that he and Aniston were “deliberately extinguishing the genre that’s kept them working.” You might be surprised to learn that the whole project is based on 1969’s Cactus Flower, a witty take on a French farce, said Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. Unfortunately, “not an atom of the original formula” remains.
