Just Go with It 2011

Critics score:
19 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ...it's predictable, pat, and often a little more vulgar than it's really required to be. Flatly vulgar, at that. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: All in all, the hit-to-miss ratio of Just Go With It is not so terrible. Which is not to say the movie is anything special. Read more

Keith Phipps, AV Club: Mostly, Just Go With It offers scenes of Aniston and Sandler deceiving Decker, whose inability to see through fabrications that wouldn't fool a canny toddler suggest she might be suffering from some kind of undiagnosed neurological disease. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's all ridiculous, of course, but it's meant to be. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: "Cactus Flower'' was a silly farce about bachelorhood and sexual liberation, with three interesting performances. The remake is almost two hours of gas. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Jennifer Aniston has starred in so many lame romantic comedies that she's become an industry punch line, but drop her into an Adam Sandler movie and she comes off like Katharine Hepburn. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Adam Sandler plays a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon in Just Go With It, a fumbling comedy directed by Dennis Dugan that could have benefitted from surgical reconstruction. How about some liposuction to siphon off all those lame jokes? Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: Once again the hoary and apparently ineffable question comes up: Why won't Hollywood remake movies that actually need redoing? Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Amidst the wreckage of Just Go With It, Aniston and Sandler have a real chemistry. They should go elsewhere with it. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Predictable, overlong romantic farce has enough sass and sex appeal to get audiences to go with it. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: If you're a Sandler film buff, the comedy is classic Sandler and will probably satisfy. Still, the best thing about the movie remains Aniston - she is reason enough to just go with it. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Sandler has mellowed into an appealingly garlicky, old-school mensch, and Aniston, as a self-sacrificingly practical woman in a race against time, is a genre unto herself. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Sandler should know better. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Frankly, it's depressing to watch two likable talents pushing such a blatantly empty experience. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Eeryone should be offended by the time-annihilating suckage of this mirth void. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Aniston, taking her cues from her costar, doesn't expend much energy either, but there are glimmers of comic brio. Now and then, she makes a face that suggests she might actually be having some fun. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The experience of sitting through Just Go with It, Adam Sandler's umpteenth comedy directed by good buddy Dennis Dugan, is akin to watching a bad sit-com that never ends. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: An early contender for worst movie of the year. If they were showing this on an airplane, I'd as for a parachute. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The people in this movie are dumber than a box of Tinkertoys. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Don't even think of going with it. It's the perfect Valentine's date night movie, but only with someone you hate. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I inflicted this movie on myself and now someone's got to pay. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: A very funny romantic comedy that nicely combines Adam Sandler's acerbic sweetness with Aniston's down-to-earth warmth - and that finds an excuse for Aniston to both play an average person and yet dress like a movie star. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: A comedy so noxious it seems the product of deliberate malignity. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: There's not much to be said about the majority of jokes here because my mother taught me not to poke at dead things. Read more

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: In Funny People, it took a brush with terminal illness for Sandler to rediscover his craft and his self-respect. One can't help but wonder what it might take in real life. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Sandler and Aniston easily pass the only important test of romantic comedies: We like them and want them to like each other. If only the other cast members were as good. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's abundantly clear that Sandler is caught in his own memory gap. As he wrestles with an uncomfortable middle age, he's either forgotten or ceased to care about how to make people laugh. Read more

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: [Aniston] does her best work in years - while making Sandler's classically crass character seem almost bearable. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: The central conceit serves the new version well enough, despite the filmmakers' regrettable addition of sundry idiotic distractions. Read more

Scott Bowles, USA Today: When Adam Sandler isn't making bathroom jokes or talking like a 2-year-old with a sinus infection, the guy can be disarming. Read more

Andrew Barker, Variety: A puerile kiddie-comedy without the anarchic energy, and a schmaltzy romantic comedy without the sweetness. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: An egregiously unfunny enterprise that seem less crafted than extruded through the great product-mill that is Hollywood at its most homogenized and soulless. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston's romantic comedy, idiotic even by their usually low big-screen standards, is stuffed with unpleasant narcissists saying and doing the stupidest, often cruelest things in hope of cheap laughs. Read more