Rent Just Go with It (2011)
3.5 of 5 from 283 ratings
1h 52min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler) meets the girl of his dreams (Brooklyn Decker) but has to enlist his loyal assistant Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife in order-to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off to Hawaii for a ridiculous, out-of -control weekend that tests the limits of how far well go for love.
- Actors:
- Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck, Dave Matthews, Kevin Nealon, Rachel Dratch, Allen Covert, Dan Patrick, Minka Kelly, Jackie Sandler, Rakefet Abergel, Dana Goodman, Julia Lea Wolov, Colby Kline, Jana Sandler, Jonathan Loughran
- Directors:
- Dennis Dugan
- Producers:
- Jack Giarraputo, Heather Parry, Adam Sandler
- Writers:
- Allan Loeb, Timothy Dowling, I.A.L. Diamond, Abe Burrows, Pierre Barillet, Jean-Pierre Grédy
- Studio:
- Sony
- Genres:
- Comedy, Romance
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Getting to Know: Nicole Kidman, Top 10 Tennis Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 30/05/2011
- Run Time:
- 116 minutes
- Languages:
- Catalan Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, German, Hindi, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Deleted scenes
- Laughter is contagious – Blooper reel
- 3 Featurettes: The perfect couple: Jen and Adam, Shooting Hawaii, Dolph – Not the one from Rocky IV
- Filmmaker and cast commentaries
- 11 minutes of additional deleted scenes
- 9 Featurettes including Decker's first role, Kevin Nealon: The plastic man
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Reviews (3) of Just Go with It
Not what I was led to believe - Just Go with It review by CP Customer
I was swayed completely by the fact that this film had 5 stars. Mmmm, not worth 4 of them I can say. I am not normally one to write reviews online but felt that I had to, simply to set the record straight.
Sandler is well and truly off the boil and trying to relive the success of the wedding singer. Aniston is OK, but this is not the film for her. Decker is attractive and that adds a bit, but unfortunately not enough.
I have to admit to one belly laugh but nowhere near 5 star territory. Hopefully my single star will address the average and bring it all to the realms of reality.
The director and the script are off beam and the film is completely predictable. All in all, utter Guff.
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Excellent! - Just Go with It review by CP Customer
A brilliantly funny film with a fantastic cast. Never a dull moment and thoroughly enjoyable to watch. Highly recommended!
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Silly And Farcical - Just Go with It review by GI
A rather silly farce with Adam Sandler as a lovesick cosmetic surgeon who has to persuade his assistant, Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) to pose as his ex wife in order to woo the sexy Palmer (Brooklyn Decker). The reasons are all too silly to explain suffice to say it's because Sandler's Danny is a rather shallow man. Like many films like this somewhere buried in all the total stupidity and lame jokes is the seeds of a neat romcom but it's never allowed to bear fruit because of the drive for puerile set pieces. For example here Danny is forced to have his idiot friend, Eddie (Nick Swardson), along on a trip to Hawaii where Nick pretends to have a cartoon German accent and ends up giving a sheep the Heimlich Manoeuvre! Pointless and unfunny. On the plus side you get Brooklyn Decker and Jennifer Aniston in bikinis, which is a treat. Sorry to be shallow but it is the only highlight in this film which is a dull predictable story and the presence of Nicole Kidman in a cameo fails to lift it.
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Critic review
Just Go with It review by Melissa Orcine - Cinema Paradiso
If a guy wants to get a girlfriend, he could just ask the girl out and be done with it, right? In the case of Danny Maccabee (Adam Sandler), a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, he wants to hook up with a school teacher Palmer Dodge (‘Sports Illustrated’ supermodel Brooklyn Decker in her first movie), Danny tells her he is divorced with an ex-wife and two kids instead of his usual unhappily married man come-on.
Here lies the problem: Danny is just a single playa and in order for Palmer to totally buy his lie and stay with him forever, he asks the special participation of his assistant Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston) and her real-life kids to be his pretend-family. Basically, what Danny wants is for Katherine, her kids, and a gaggle of friends to a trip to Hawaii to lie with him and ‘Just Go With It’.
Frequent Adam Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan directed ‘Just Go With It’ (their last team-up was ‘Grown Ups’), and they’ve somehow perfected the formulaic comedy which stars a lovable schmuck who ends up with the girl. Not here. ‘Just Go With It’ is not an original story; it was based on the 1969 hit French farce ‘Cactus Flower’ starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn.
That’s no excuse, however. Even with the obvious chemistry between Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, the laughs don’t actually keep on coming. You can tell that Aniston tries hard to spice it up but Sandler is just on the side cackling, and when the kids (Bailee Madison and Griffin Gluck) playing your pretend-children are way funnier than the leads you know it’s a sinking comedy ship. Brooklyn Decker is spot-on as a stunning school teacher but a total miscast to act the part.
Adam Sandler has not produced an all-out riot since 2007’s ‘You Don’t Mess With the Zohan’. He’s known for two things: adorable, funny guy-next-door (‘The Wedding Singer’, ’50 First Dates’) and the unabashedly rude frat guy (‘Billy Madison’, ‘Happy Gilmore’), and in ‘Just Go With It’, he wants to fuse the two to no avail.