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Adam Sandler is back and better than ever coming away with yet another box office win with his newest film “Just Go With It,” interestingly enough based on the 1969 film “Cactus Flower,” and in turn based on the French play “Fleur de cactus.” Sandler is known for his crazy, rude, over the top humor and even though he has toned it down a bit in recent years the new Adam Sandler has not lost his way.
Sandler stars as Danny Maccabee who has had his heart broken by his fiancé when he was younger on his wedding night. While sulking in a bar he finds out that by wearing his wedding ring and making up lies about his nonexistent wife, he is able to talk to and ultimately go home and sleep with women.
He continues his scheme throughout the years and becomes a very successful plastic surgeon until one day he meets a girl named Palmer (Brooklyn Decker).
He thinks that he is in love with her, but deep down he is truly fond of his best lady friend and assistant that he has known for years, Katherine Murphy (Jennifer Aniston).
Ironically, he goes to Katherine for help to pose as his soon to be divorced wife after Palmer finds his wedding ring in his pocket and thinks that he is actually married refusing to go out with him.
His lie grows more and more leading Danny, Palmer, Katherine and her two kids Maggie (Bailee Madison, “Brothers”) and Michael (Griffin Gluck) and Danny’s cousin Eddie (Nick Swardson) to go together on a trip to Hawaii. There they run into Katherine’s college arch nemesis Devlin Adams (Nicole Kidman) and partake in a very funny comedic adventure towards love.
There aren’t many romantic comedies that are actually able to target both the female and male audience, but Sandler has been doing it for years and does it again in “Just Go with It.”
In the end, even though the film has its shortcomings with originality, writing, and the interjection of random scenes, it is the likability of all of the characters and the comedy that they create that makes the latest Sandler installment worth seeing.
