Grown Ups

Grown Ups begins with a flashback to a 1978 boys’ basketball championship, where the starting five look like 12-year-old versions of Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider and Kevin James. We catch up with the teammates 30 years later, reunited for Coach’s funeral and entrusted with Coach’s ashes. With their families, they head for their old summer-getaway lodge. The guest list includes the urn, Rock’s stock-comic mother-in-law, a dog with snipped vocal cords, five men, four wives and 10 kids. Maya Rudolph is the only capable comedienne among the wives; the men are either unfunny or, if given fewer lines, useless. It’s one of those Sandler movies where the inevitable Steve Buscemi cameo passes for the highlight.