Sandler's Disaster Comedy with 8% on RT Beats Out Reynolds and 'The Immortal Guard' on Netflix — and 9 Out of 10 Critics Call It 'Garbage'
The film got a second wind, although no one expected it.
Adam Sandler is once again striving to reach the top — the old comedy Grown Ups 2 with an impressive (with a minus sign) 8% freshness on Rotten Tomatoes suddenly briskly soared to the top of Netflix. Critics once unanimously gave the film a cross: they said the script was passable, the jokes were bearded, grown men in diapers — instead of normal humor. But the audience had fun — and now, 12 years later, this bedlam has reached the top line of the streaming service.
Grown Ups 2 didn’t turn out so bad at the box office either — despite all the facepalms of reviewers, the film collected 247 million dollars worldwide with a budget of 80. For Sandler, this is a completely usual layout: critics spit, the audience laughs and brings money to the box office.
And now Netflix has a whole summer camp named after Sandler: first Grown Ups, then Grown Ups 2” and the long-awaited Happy Gilmore 2 is about to arrive.
Sandler and his on-screen friends have arranged an endless pajama party: the original is currently in eighth place, ahead of action films with Ryan Reynolds . While moviegoers argue whether the world needs a new Gilmore, Netflix is simply counting views — and adding gasoline to the fire of the Sandler universe.
8% from critics? Big deal. If a comedy goes down a treat with pizza and soda — who will even remember these percentages?
