Just Go With It Review

Just Go With It is a fine blend of romance and comedy that anyone can enjoy, but you won't help feeling that the movie is letting you down. The movie wastes your time with unnecessary scenes and characters, but it's still a hilarious movie with its high points.

Danny Maccabee is your typical bachelor plastic surgeon, who has bad luck with women. He enjoys pretending to have families to hook up with women, and it usually ends in just more heartbreak. That is, until he meets Palmer, a math teacher who's got the looks. She finds out about his faking marriage joke, and assumes that he was hiding his marriage, and she leaves. Heartbroken, Danny returns to work, and gets a crazy idea to use his coworker Katherine, and her children, as his pretend family whom he is divorcing from. Reluctantly, Katherine agrees, and we're thrown into a wild ride as the fake family travels to Hawaii, and Danny has a change of heart.

I didn't explain the plot very well, since there is so much to it, because most of it seems unnecessary. We get introduced to pointless characters, that only add comedic elements and nothing else, and it just becomes a bore to follow the plot. There is no reason why Danny's cousin should be thrown in the mix, or Katherine's old nemesis, and the movie just gets boring after that. Also included is a ridiculously stupid hula competition, and I just couldn't help but wonder why we needed this. It's not to say that the plot isn't enjoyable, and it certainly is. It's fun to see Danny and Katherine pretend to be exes, and some of the situations that they end up in are downright hilarious. The ending is predictable, but it shouldn't have ended any other way.

The acting in Just Go With It is great. I normally despise Adam Sandler, and after Happy Gilmore, he just became annoying, and hasn't made a good movie in a long time. He was still annoying here, but he was a great fit for the role of Danny, and it seems just like something that Adam would do in real life. I'm a huge Jennifer Aniston fan, and seeing her play Danny's pretend wife is a real treat. She does a great job, and it brought me back to seeing her as Rachel way back on Friends, which was an added bonus. Brooklyn Decker, whom I haven't seen much, did a decent job as Danny's newest girl, but she wasn't a standout.

Just Go With It is a confusing mess of a plot, and, although enjoyable at many times, you won't get over the fact that most of it is unnecessary. With good acting and a decent plot, Just Go With It is a perfect one-night rental.

Overall: 3.5/5.0