Review: The Dilemma

The Dilemma is a bit all over the place and doesn’t really know what it wants to be and unfortunately doesn’t embrace the dark side of the film that is kind of interesting.

The film follows a pair of friends/business partners that are have an unsuspecting wrench thrown in their relationship when one of them sees the other’s significant other with another man.  This proves difficult for the one who saw the adultery, Ronny, as he doesn’t know how to break the news to his buddy, Nick.  To compound the problem even further, Ronny, doesn’t know what to do with his own girlfriend as Nick and his cheating wife, Geneva, had been pressuring him to pop the question before all these adultery issues arose.  Ronny begins to sneak around after Geneva and when he finally confronts her a war of secrets begins to unfold.

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Review: Grown Ups

Grown Ups is the latest from Team Sandler and he brings along his best friends and the Happy Madison All Stars for a comedy that succeeds on the charisma of its actors and nothing much else.

The film revolves around a group of five childhood friends who are reunited after years apart when their childhood basketball coach passes away and they all attend the funeral.  After the ceremony the guys decide to spend the rest of the Fourth of July weekend at a summer cabin that they spent their summers at as kids and hope to have a reconnection while showing their own children how to live like they did.  Meanwhile, an old town rivalry begins brewing as they cross paths with some of the local kids that never left.

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