The Bad Boys of SNL (with King of Queens replacing Chris Farley as the fat one) are having so much fun wearing shirts on a water slide! I bet that’s similar to the sort of fun I’d have watching Grown Ups ! Conclusion: I should probably go to the theater on June 25. ‘Grown Ups’ Poster [IMPA]

After watching this trailer for the new Adam Sandler , Chris Rock , Rob Schneider and David Spade movie Grown Ups , I am strangely getting pretty psyched to see Old Dogs : Wow. I feel like I’m missing something here. Is this a pitch perfect mockery of everything bad about Hollywood comedies? I know every one one of these actors has been in a terrible movie or two before, but there’s no way they’d join forces and make movie with a hacky title like Grown Ups , right? Between the Disney narration to that shot of “the guys” laughing and drinking wine in a cemetary to Kevin James hitting that tree, someone at some point HAD to have said something along the lines of, “We’ll show those jerks on the internet how you make a fake cheesy movie trailer!” These guys are professional comedians. They don’t actually expect us to believe this movie would be a good way to spend two hours and $13… right? To Chris Rock’s credit, he looks pretty embarrassed to be involved at all. Also, I’m guessing they passed on these titles: Adults Older People Middle Aged Family Men Growin’ Old Mature Human Beings The Untitled Adam Sandler Project He’s Contractually Obligated To Make But Not Contractually Obligated To Put An Ounce Of Original Thought In To Via Dan: When Will Dude From Grandma’s Boy Show Up

The trailer for the childhood-friends-reunite-as-adults film Grown-Ups is here. Watching it, I have to think this will probably be a new generation’s The Big Chill . Except no it won’t, because The Big Chill was college friends, and it never included gags where Jeff Goldblum swings into a tree and comically rolls down a hill. Maybe it’s a new generation’s Now and Then , without any of the flashback scenes? Or maybe it’s just The Bad Boys of SNL Reunite as Dads, and Also King of Queens Is Here Instead of Chris Farley (RIP) :

Thanks to TetterkeT for pointing out this trailer for Naked Dawn , a Red Dawn spoof in which a naked Rob Schneider is a nudist colony’s only hope against clothes-loving Russian invaders. With the way your boss is about seeing Rob Schneider’s butt, you probably should wait until after work for this:

Wouldn’t every movie be better if it featured naked people? That was my thinking as an overheated youth in the late 70s and early 80s, and, fortunately for me, theaters were flooded in those days with naked people — almost all lovely young women. Of course, some movies resisted that notion, insisting on keeping characters fully clothed for reasons of “artistic integrity,” “narrative logic,” or “refusal of actresses to cheapen themselves by appearing in gratuitous nude scenes.” One such movie was John Milius’ Red Dawn , the gloriously jingoistic paen to teenagers arming themselves with machine guns and mowing down invading Russians, in which Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey kept their clothes on as soldiers of misfortune. An official remake is in development, but if you don’t want to wait for that, the very talented Jake Szymanski ( The Dirty Garage ) at Funny or Die has forged ahead with his own version … set in a nudist colony. Frankly, this is not quite my dream remake. For one thing, the faux trailer features frontally nude men almost exclusively, without a modern, naked equivalent of Lea Thompson or Jennifer Grey in sight. Still, a fully-clothed Mena Suvari appears, wielding a whip, and Vinnie Jones chews up the scenery as the Russian leader. A very naked Rob Schneider leads the rebellion. Which is more frightening: an invading foreign army, or Rob Schneider naked? Watch it and decide for yourself. WARNING: NSFW due to nudity . Filed under: Fandom , Trailers and Clips Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

This can’t go well: Kevin James, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade are in negotiations to star in an untitled comedy for Columbia Pictures. Frequent Sandler collaborator Dennis Dugan (”You Don’t Mess With the Zohan”) will helm, with the studio gearing up for a summer start date. Sandler’s Sony-based Happy Madison shingle, which recently teamed with James and the studio on the box office hit “Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” is producing. Sandler penned the screenplay with “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star” scribe Fred Wolf. High-concept story is a comedy about five best friends from high school who reunite 30 years later on a Fourth of July weekend. So what they’re getting at is that this is a movie about SNL, but instead of calling it “a popular, weekly sketch comedy program” they’re calling it “high school”, and instead of Chris Farley it’s Kevin James. I can’t quite figure out what the reuniting on “Fourth of July weekend” part represents. Maybe a declaration of independence from genuine laughter? Columbia pic gets Sandler and friends [Variety]