NMR: Just Go With It

I'm usually always up for an Adam Sandler movie, but this one misses the mark. Of course, one of its major flaws is its premise. Here Sandler has co-worker Jennifer Aniston pretend she's his soon to be ex-wife in order to win over a hot girl (Brooklyn Decker) he recently met. Why he wouldn't just want to date someone as hot as Aniston is beyond me. As the film tries to make the flimsy premise work, they pad the story with a lot of subplots that really go nowhere. The film isn't completely humorless, however. There are a handful of gags that worked, but most of them come near the beginning of the film and revolve around Sandler being a plastic surgeon. Once the film moves to Hawaii (in yet another situation where it appears Sandler chose a film in order to have a glorified vacation) it loses a lot of steam and limps to its inevitable conclusion. Despite a bunch of funny guys and hot women making up the majority of the cast, they simply couldn't do anything with this material. This is one Sandler film you can skip. Rating: **1/2