Box office Grown Ups 2 grossed $133.7 million in North America and $113.4 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $247 million, against a budget of $80 million. In the U.S., the film earned $16.3 million on its opening day,
Grown Ups 2 was released on July 12, 2013, alongside
Pacific Rim. and opened to number two in its first weekend, with $41.5 million, behind
Despicable Me 2. In its second weekend, the film dropped to number four, grossing $19.9 million. In its third and fourth weekends, the film made $11.6 million and $7.9 million, respectively.
Critical response On
Rotten Tomatoes,
Grown Ups 2 has an approval percentage of 8% based on 114 reviews and a rating of 3/10. The critics consensus reads: "While it's almost certainly the movie event of the year for filmgoers passionate about deer urine humor,
Grown Ups 2 will bore, annoy, and disgust audiences of nearly every other persuasion." On
Metacritic, the film has a score of 19 out of 100 based on 28 critic reviews, meaning "overwhelming dislike". Audiences polled by
CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. John DeFore of
The Hollywood Reporter said, "Throughout, gags are cartoonishly broad and afforded so little time for setup and delivery we seem to be watching less a story than a catalog of tossed-out material." Andrew Barker of
Variety said, "Among the slackest, laziest, least movie-like movies released by a major studio in the last decade, "
Grown Ups 2" is perhaps the closest Hollywood has yet come to making "
Ow, My Balls!" seem like a plausible future project." Mick LaSalle of the
San Francisco Chronicle gave the film one out of four stars, saying, "The temptation arises to say something nice about "
Grown Ups 2" just because it doesn't cause injury. But no, it's a bad movie, just old-school bad, the kind that's merely lousy and not an occasion for migraines or night sweats." Linda Barnard of the
Toronto Star gave the film zero out of four stars, saying, "Adam Sandler scrapes the bottom of the barrel—and then he pukes into it—with
Grown Ups 2, a lazily cribbed-together swamp of pointless and unfunny sketches that makes 2010’s
Grown Ups look like
Citizen Kane." Matt Patches of
Time Out New York gave the film one out of five stars, saying, "In the first five minutes, a deer walks into the star's bedroom and urinates on his face. It's all downhill from there." Rafer Guzman of
Newsday gave the film one out of four stars, saying, "For all its warm and fuzzy notions of family and community,
Grown Ups 2... has a desperate reliance on nasty jokes about pee, poo and – with surprising frequency – gay panic." Owen Gleiberman of
Entertainment Weekly, who gave the film a B, said, "In certain ways,
Grown Ups 2 marks a return to classically Sandlerian infantile anarchy." Mark Olsen of the
Los Angeles Times gave the film one and a half stars out of five, saying, "
Grown Ups 2 looks like it was a lot of fun to make. And the last laugh is on us." Elizabeth Weitzman of the
New York Daily News gave the film two out of five stars, saying, "Like most Adam Sandler movies, it’s exactly like most Adam Sandler movies... This movie stars all Sandler’s buddies and gleefully embraces lowbrow crudity even while promoting loving family values." Ignatiy Vishnevetsky of
The A.V. Club gave the film a D−, saying, "Largely free of Sandler’s usual schmaltz and lame romance, it’s pure plotless, grotesque high jinks, bizarre and inept in a way that’s fascinating without ever being all that funny." Nick Schager of
The Village Voice gave the film a negative review, saying "A few decent one-liners notwithstanding, the movie comes off as willfully uninspired." Claudia Puig of
USA Today gave the film one star out of four, saying, "Mystifyingly, the movie manages to emerge plot-free. Instead, it offers a succession of humorless gross-out gags, fat jokes, suggestive posturing, bullying, belches, and pratfalls. Life is simple – and gross – in Sandlerville." Sara Stewart of the
New York Post gave the film half a star out of four, saying, "The movie lurches from one gross-out scene to another, flipping the bird at continuity and logic. It honestly seems as if Sandler and his team descended on a random suburb, halfheartedly improvising and moving on when they got bored." Stephanie Merry of
The Washington Post gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying, "
Grown Ups 2 isn’t merely mindless. At times it seems to actually drain IQ points from its viewers while wasting a talented cast of "Saturday Night Live" alums, who are all capable of being much smarter and so much funnier." Andy Webster of
The New York Times gave the film one out of five stars, saying, "This is pap, plain and simple: scattered raunch-lite devoid of emotional resonance. At best, it sells itself on the spectacle of a TV show’s cast reunion—and even then it disappoints. With the debacles of ''That's My Boy
and Jack and Jill
, Mr. Sandler has increasingly squandered his comic capital. His onetime SNL
brethren do themselves few favors—beyond a paycheck—by working in his orbit." Peter Keough of The Boston Globe gave the film one and a half stars out of four, saying, "Apparently the world demanded another family-friendly version of The Hangover'', one that combined scatological comedy with smarmy sentimentality." Connie Ogle of the
Miami Herald gave the film one out of four stars, saying, "Nobody escapes untainted by the foul stench of
Grown Ups 2; it’s bad enough to make you look askance at Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, and Maya Rudolph, all of whom deserve a chance to do something funny other than pose as wives exuding various degrees of sexiness."
Richard Roeper gave the film one and a half stars, saying, "When
Taylor Lautner is the funniest thing in a movie starring Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, we're in trouble." Randy Cordova of
The Arizona Republic gave the film one out of five stars, saying, "In its own way, "
Grown Ups 2" sets the bar really high. After all, it’s hard to imagine another comedy coming along this year that is this abrasive and free of laughs. It’s like everyone involved intentionally tried to create a horrible movie." Alonso Duralde of
The Wrap wrote, "Yes, it's time for another visit to the Adam Sandler Death-of-Cinema Fun Factory, the big-screen version of a terrible sitcom where laugh tracks are replaced by the co-stars chuckling at their own awful material." Adam Nayman of
The Globe and Mail gave the film two out of four stars, saying, "None of the stars are trying very hard, and so the most memorable presences are the cameos: If nothing else,
Grown Ups 2 will go down as the only film in history to find room for Steve Buscemi alongside "Stone Cold" Steve Austin." In 2014, comedians
Tim Batt and
Guy Montgomery watched the film every week for a full year for the first season of their podcast,
The Worst Idea of All Time.
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