Just Go With It – review

Lewis Wolpert defined depression as "malignant sadness". George Santayana called it "rage spread thin". I call it "watching an Adam Sandler romcom where he discovers he's been in love with his feisty pal Jennifer Aniston all along". Just Go With It is so dispiritingly awful that responsible cinema staff should make audiences remove their ties and shoelaces on their way into the auditorium. Loosely remade from an IAL Diamond screenplay, the film stars Sandler as a single guy who finds posing as an unhappily married man makes him attractive. Trapped in this absurd lie, and to impress a hot new girlfriend, Danny desperately persuades his buddy Katherine (Aniston) to pose as his estranged wife. Nicole Kidman gives a game performance as Katherine's competitive best friend, and it could have been hilarious, but for one thing. She is not given a single funny thing to say or do, and neither is anyone else. Sandler is sentimental and ingratiating and Aniston is on autopilot.