Just Go with It
The brief
This bloated rom-com feels like watching Sandler sleepwalk through a vacation he's filming for tax purposes, with Jennifer Aniston gamely trying to inject some actual charm into increasingly ridiculous lie-upon-lie scenarios. The Hawaiian setting looks gorgeous but can't disguise that you're essentially watching a sitcom pilot stretched to two painful hours, complete with Nicole Kidman doing an inexplicable British accent. Sandler and Aniston have decent chemistry when the script isn't forcing them into cringe-worthy situations involving fake families and elaborate deceptions. Perfect if you're nostalgic for early 2010s Netflix-and-chill comedies or need something aggressively inoffensive playing in the background.
The verdict
If you're looking for mindless comfort food comedy with tropical scenery and don't mind watching Adam Sandler coast through familiar territory, this delivers exactly what you'd expect from a lazy Sunday Netflix binge. If you want sharp writing or can't tolerate cringe humor built on increasingly absurd lies, you'll find this painfully overlong and aggressively mediocre.
Watch with
- 👫 Date night for fans of easy romantic comedies
- 👨👩👧👦 Family movie night with teens
- ⚠️ Skip if you find Adam Sandler grating
Heads up
- Mild sexual humor and innuendo (moderate)
- Some crude jokes and bathroom humor (brief)
Credits
- Director
- Dennis Dugan
- Cast
- Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston, Brooklyn Decker, Nicole Kidman, Nick Swardson, Bailee Madison, Griffin Gluck
Official synopsis
While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant
The Double
Make a night of it
Pair this with The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)
Both feature workplace relationships evolving into romantic complications through deception.
Total runtime: 1h 57m + 2h 0m = 3h 57m
