Meanwhile, the lewd content is uncomfortable instead of funny, and it includes plenty of foul language, scatological humor, and overt homosexual humor. The writing is desperate to be funny at any cost. Also, the script is so over the top and manic that it simply insults the audience’s intelligence. However, returning director Dennis Dugan does a shockingly sloppy job with many scenes.
Some of the movie is funny in spite of itself.
The raunchy material is so crude, frequent and overwhelming that it nearly completely drowns out the positive parts. GROWN UPS 2 is a strange mix of scatology and lewd humor mixed with strong pro-family, pro-life sentiments. The ending also involves a giant battle between the town college’s frat boys versus the average folks who really live there. Everything climaxes in a giant 1980s-themed costume party. It all takes place in one improbably action-packed day. The minimal plot focuses on the four male leads and their families getting into one silly and often stupid misadventure after another. GROWN UPS 2 is a louder, crasser, sloppier attempt at recapturing the first movie’s popularity.