Now Danny has a big problem and he goes to his trusted assistant at the clinic, Katherine (Jennifer Aniston), asking her to pose as his soon-to-be ex. Under much pressure Katherine agrees, but Danny insists they get her some new clothes because she is quite frumpy and he wants to portray a hot ex-wife. Even Danny is shocked by how amazing she looks when the meeting finally takes place. All goes well and Katherine plays her part, but then takes a call from her kids and, of course, Palmer must now meet the kids. This next meeting spirals into a trip to Hawaii when Katherine's scheming young son Michael (Griffin Gluck) makes up a story about how he was cheated out of his family trip when Danny met Palmer. To complicate matters, Katherine's daughter, Maggie (Bailee Madison) is taking an acting class and insists of speaking in a British accent, eliciting more lies to cover this up.
Soon, the whole crew is on their way to Hawaii, complete with Danny's cousin, Eddie (Nick Swardson), who through yet another lie, is posing as Katherine's boyfriend, Dolph Lundgren (the other one, not the actor.) Oh, and Danny couldn't think of good fake names, so Katherine is Devlin (named for Katherine's college nemesis and also a pet name she has for her children's bowel movements, as in "I have to take a Devlin." Just go with it.), Maggie is Kiki Dee and Michael is Bart. Whew.
While in Hawaii, comedy ensues as nothing goes right for poor Danny. All he wants to do is cuddle up with Palmer in sunny Hawaii, but she insists on family outings. On one such outing, while ogling Palmer's bikini-clad bod, Danny is shocked when Katherine strips down to her bikini to go swimming and she is quite the contender.
The final kink in everyone's plan is when none other than Devlin (Nicole Kidman) herself ends up at the same resort and begins to make Katherine's trip even more hellacious. Whether it is bragging about her husband, Ian Maxtone Jones (an absolutely hysterical Dave Matthews, yes from the awesome band), the "creator of the I-pod," or trying to best poor Katherine in a hula contest, Katherine has her hands full. As the insanity progresses, Danny and Katherine find themselves falling for one another.
While the ending is predictable, the road to get there is filled with hilarity. I like Adam Sandler movies, although sometimes they can be a bit sophomoric for me. Just Go With It had its share of juvenile humor, but I laughed out loud a lot and to me, that says the movie was pretty damn funny, at least in my opinion. The credo of the film is "Just go with it" and if you do and simply turn off your brain, you will have a great time.
Special features are plentiful, but none are very long, which is just how I like my special features to be. There are deleted scenes, a blooper reel, commentary and a bevy of featurettes on everything from the chemistry between Sandler and Aniston to Kevin Nealon's plastic-faced man, to Decker's first movie role. I really liked Along Came A Prop Guy where the prop guy used a plastic spider to terrorize everyone on set. There's a lot here, and a number of the deleted scenes and featurettes are Blu-ray exclusive, so that's a great reason to go Blu-ray over DVD. However, the Hawaiian scenery is breathtaking in Blu-ray and the film has a great soundtrack which really pops in high def.
This is a great popcorn movie. It's fun, hilarious and not too mushy. Sandler and Aniston are wonderful together and while I thought Bailee Madison over-acted a little bit, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire movie. I'd definitely watch it a second time at the very least, so it might be something comedy movie fans would want to purchase.
