![]() ![]() Once-promising comic Nick Swardson shows up as the school bus driver, strung out on pills because his wife dumped him: “She caught me eating a banana with my butt.” Because he’s actually gay, ew! (At least Sandler and his two credited co-writers can congratulate themselves on how “naturalistic” their work is.) It honestly seems as if Sandler and his team descended on a random suburb, halfheartedly improvising and moving on when they got bored. The movie lurches from one gross-out scene to another, flipping the bird at continuity and logic. And Eric is honing his ability to burp, sneeze and fart simultaneously, to the great envy of his mouth-breather pals. Higgins is dealing with a visit from a son he never knew he had, a sullen teenager (Alexander Ludwig) with a matching blond mop. Wives are so tyrannical! (Rock, almost never a good judge of a screenplay, is better than this, and spends the movie looking like he knows it.) Kurt is thrilled because he’s remembered his 20th anniversary while wife Deanne (Rudolph) forgot, which gives him a massive “get out of jail free card” to drink non-diet soda with dinner. (I like to imagine Schneider reading the screenplay and going, “This is beneath me - and I starred in ‘Deuce Bigalow 2!’”) Underachieving friends Kurt (Chris Rock), Eric (Kevin James) and Higgins (David Spade) are still around, though Rob Schneider’s character is absent. It immediately pees on Lenny, per the Sandler rule book. He and wife Roxanne (Hayek) are awakened by, inexplicably, a deer in their bedroom. Morning dawns in the hometown of Lenny Feder (Sandler), where he’s moved with his family after giving up his Hollywood agent job. Family is still the center of this sequel, though the plot is nonexistent. ![]()
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