In the former category are a woman with one eyebrow considerably higher up her forehead than the other and a large lady with notably mismatched breasts because of an implant collapse.
Very minor efforts - lab coat, drab hairstyle - have been made in the early doctor’s office scenes to make Aniston look plainer than she is, but these can’t disguise the fact that Katherine is the woman for Danny he’s just too dazzled by his latest conquest to notice.Ī couple of parties and medical scenes provide director Dennis Dugan (in his sixth collaboration with Sandler) the opportunities for easy yuks at the expense of patients who need some plastic surgery and those who have had too much. The only person Danny can’t put anything over on is his assistant Katherine (Aniston), a good-natured, no-nonsense divorcee who actually does have two kids. He has no trouble nailing the hottest young thing at a beach party, math teacher Palmer (Decker), though contrived complications lead to his subsequently lying to her that he’s not only married but has two children. Daniel Maccabee, a glib Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who, for more than 20 years, has racked up considerable romantic mileage from the trick of wearing a wedding ring and pretending to be unhappily married. With the world-weariness of Funny People out of his system, Sandler treads familiar ground here as Dr. The age bracket for the older two characters has been lowered by a decade or more, and little of the original remains in Allan Loeb and Timothy Dowling’s adaptation other than the medical professions of the leads and some plot machinations leading to an ending that’s preordained in the first few minutes. It won’t mean anything to 99.9 percent of its paying customers, but this mildly racy, pictorially sunny PG-13 farce represents a very free reworking of the 1969 hit Cactus Flower (and its Broadway and Paris stage predecessors), with Sandler, Aniston and Decker in the Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn roles, respectively.
Related article: Brooklyn Decker’s model-to-actress career challenge Labored, repetitive and lacking a single moment of surprise in the course of its indulgent two hours, this Sony release nonetheless has one ace to play in the beauteous form of Brooklyn Decker, the slo-mo sight of whom striding out of the sea in a bikini during Super Bowl commercials last weekend no doubt guaranteed that guys won’t object too strenuously to this as a Valentine’s Day weekend date-night choice.
As thoroughly generic as its title, Just Go With It aims at two different constituencies, Adam Sandler’s rude-guy-humor fans and Jennifer Aniston rom-com loyalists and just partially hits both targets.
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