Just Go With It

Just Take Caution If Reader Decides To Go With It
Just Go With It, PG-13, *, Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Brooklyn Decker, Bailee Madison. Columbia Pictures. Director Dennis Dugan. Length 116 minutes.

The movie begins in 1988 when Danny (Adam Sandler) discovers his fiancée has been cheating on him. He finds this out on the day of his wedding. Of course, this broke his heart, so he calls off the wedding.
Danny kept his marriage ring, and uses it to pick up women. He tells sad stories to his would be pickups, and they feel sorry for him.
All the weddings I have been a part of in one way or the other the groom did not get the ring until the actual marriage ceremony. Faking a sad story, the women feel as if they should try and cheer him up. This continues for years. Many moons later he has a Plastic Surgery business.
His nurse is Katherine (Jennifer Aniston) who is divorced with two children. They have some semi comic moments while examining patients. Semi is giving the comic moments way too much credit.
As the old song by Paul Simon sings, Still crazy after all these years rings true with Danny. One day Danny meets, Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a beautiful 23 year old math teacher. When Palmer walks out of the ocean, the viewer will be reminded of the old movie “10” starring Bo Derek. Decker and Derek both have great statistics. The plot of this movie is so lame that it not even laughable. Palmer and Danny make a connection, and they both want to see each other again. However, Palmer finds Danny’s wedding ring, and she does not have anything to do with married men. Danny begins to concoct a plan to win her back.
He has Katherine pretend to be his wife, because Palmer wants to meet her. This is not to be a spoiler, because this part was in the trailer.
Palmer, Danny, Katherine, and her children along with a really obnoxious friend all travel to Hawaii. Katherine’s young son wants to swim with the Dolphins. Palmer insists that everyone vacation in Hawaii for a little bonding time.
The movie has mountains of lame dialogue. The story is absolutely over the top in believability, and many of the jokes fall flat. However, the comic attempts and dialogue are about the only thing that is flat in this movie.
Katherine meets Devlin (Nicole Kidman) from college days while in Hawaii. The best part of the movie happens in Hawaii. That is not saying much. However, watch for the Hula girls and the coconut shells they wear that are a cultural part of Hawaiian dance shows. The director should have stayed with the real Hawaiian girls instead of bringing some of the cast to the stage to demonstrate their form of over the top sick attempts at comedy. One of the characters took an over the top humor scene way too far.
The movie is predictable. The audience will figure it out in the first ten minutes.
Instead of swimming with the Dolphins, I recommend this movie take the old Mafia term to heart and say, “Just Go With It” should be swimming with the fishes.”