Just Go With It

Adam Sandler is an unmarried plastic surgeon who pretends to be unhappily married as his means of befriending women without commitment in 'Just Go With It' but when one of them asks to meet his wife he enlists his secretary Jennifer Aniston to take on the pretence.

This is a reworking of 'Cactus Flower', a hit comedy in the late 1960s for which Goldie Hawn won an Academy Award and in which the Jennifer Aniston role was portrayed by none other than Ingrid Bergman.

Now I don't recall 'Cactus Flower' all that well but I would bet that it was wittier and more adult than this tacky remake. My heart sank in the very opening scene in which fun is made of a character wearing a grossly exaggerated prosthetic nose and my immediately lowered expectations were realised as the movie progressed to further depths.

If giving an animatronic sheep mouth to mouth is your idea of fun then rush to see this film, otherwise I would advise giving it a wide berth. In fairness two mature women seated in front of us thought the film hilarious and were practically pissing themselves throughout and most of the rest of the audience comprised early teenagers for whom the film's comedy may well be perfectly suited.