Just Go With It

Movie: Just Go With It

Genre: romantic comedy

Synopsis: Danny (Adam Sandler) is a very successful plastic surgeon.  Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) is his assistant and longtime confidante.  Adam has commitment issues and wears a wedding ring as a pickup tool – it seems to attract women who share his aversion to commitment.  Things backfire when Adam falls for the beautiful 20-something Palmer (Brooklyn Decker) when he is not wearing the ring.  When she finds the ring in his pocket, she dumps him.  He convinces her that he is married – but getting a divorce.  He has to enlist Katherine to play his soon-to-be ex-wife to convince Palmer that he is available.  His cover-up snowballs and he ends up having to “hire” Katherine’s two kids to play “their” children – and everyone ends up taking a vacation together in Hawaii.  In Hawaii, Katherine runs in to her old arch-rival from college, Devlin Adams (Nicole Kidman).  Katherine starts her own string of lies to try and impress Devlin.

My two cents: A really funny and charming movie.  Adam Sandler’s Billy Madison persona only surfaces a couple of times.  I think it was his best movie since Spanglish.  Jennifer Anniston was as likeable as ever.  I keep reading reviewers criticizing her for always playing to same type of character – but she does it sooooo well.  It was great fun to watch Katherine’s kids outsmart Danny.  And then there is Brooklyn Decker.  While her acting was OK, I would rate the scene of her walking out of the ocean as the girl-walking-out-of-the-water scene I have seen in a movie . . . better than Ursula Andress in “Dr. No”, better than Halle Berry in “Die Another Day”, and even better than Phoebe Cates in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”.  There is also a great hula dance-off between Jennifer Anniston and Nicole Kidman.

Bottom line:  This was one of the funniest movies I have seen in a while. No real dull spots and a great ending.

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