“Just Go With It” is a tiresome reworking of the 1969 “Cactus Flower” based on the stage play. Casting Sandler as a successful plastic surgeon is an odd choice and quite a stretch of the imagination. He’s Danny Macabee, a forty-ish single cad pretending to be unhappily married so he can romance desirable single women by playing on their sympathies. His plan backfires upon meeting gorgeous Palmer (Brooklyn Decker), a young schoolteacher. Its love at first sight, until she finds out he’s been lying, and, to hold onto her, says he’s getting divorced. He has his office assistant–nurse Katherine (Aniston), a single mother with two annoying children, pretend to be his family.
Director Dennis Dugan’s (“Happy Gilmore,” a Sandler hit) helms sporadic amusing moments which are few and far between. Aniston creates an entertaining moment when she transforms from an ugly duckling into a shapely, sexy-looking female. Brooklyn Decker is merely window dressing and Nicole Kidman is underused in her attempt at comedy as a former school rival. One notable bit of casting: rock performer Dave Matthews as Kidman’s ambitious husband.
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