Movie Review: Grown Ups

Grown Ups
(PG), 115 minutes, 3.5/5
You need not be worried about an official from Mensa checking your membership card before you enter the cinema for this comedy romp.
"Intellectual" is not necessarily a word you would use to describe Grown Ups but the words "great fun" certainly are.
This is light and breezy with gags on just about every subject including most of our body parts.
But it's not smutty, and if the audience of people aged 10 to 70 that watched with me is anything to go by, there is wide appeal to be found here.
With the 30th anniversary of the end of my school days coming up next year, I found it a particularly poignant story of five school mates getting back together to mourn the passing of their school basketball coach.
This coach had guided them to a basketball championship and they held him in a special place in their hearts.
But over the years these boys moved on in their lives and lost touch with who they had once been.
With the funeral out of the way, the boys decide to revisit the same lakehouse where they celebrated their triumph all those years ago.
This time around they bring their wives and children, and this disparate group of people have to find ways to get back to the simple life they had once known.
The boys remember things they once did in their childhood but can their middle-aged bodies replicate those feats now?
There's some great comedy names to be found in the cast including Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade as the boys.
Grown Ups goes to prove that boys do grow up to be men but they never forget their days of youth.
This is good-value, simple fun. You need to be made of stone not to laugh at the youthful antics in this movie.