Just Go With It

This hysterical film follows the trail of lies created by plastic surgeon Danny Mackabee (Adam Sandler), who uses his wedding ring to pull women after finding out his wife-to-be doesn’t love him. Katherine (Jennifer Aniston), his secretary and friend, gets dragged into the web as his ex-wife when Danny finally finds a girl worth keeping (Brooklyn Decker), as do her children and Danny’s brother, making for a deceitful rollercoaster of laughs as they all try to keep up with who is lying about what. The majority of the film plays out in Hawai’i, where they are all on holiday in order to “bond” (a neat trick by Katherine’s son, who wanted to swim with the dolphins), and happen meet Devlin Adams (Nicole Kidman), an old nemesis from Katherine’s past who brings on a surge of new lies, to the point where Danny and Katherine have to start making index cards to remember who knows what. With hilarious debuts from people who have seen the bad end of plastic surgery and a plot that requires you to actively think in order to keep up, Just Go With It is just the sort of comedy that shines in a world of duds.

Released: 2011

Directed by: Dennis Dougan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston

My rating: 9.5/10

Review By: Willow