Just Go with It (2011)
Directed by Dennis Dugan
While romancing Palmer, a much younger schoolteacher, plastic surgeon Danny Maccabee enlists his loyal assistant Katherine to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, Katherine's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
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Stephen Whitty's Review: TWO STARS Based loosely on the old movie “Cactus Flower” (itself based loosely on an old play), it’s the story of a swinging doctor who keeps commitment-crazy women at arm’s length by pretending to be married.
Worse, consider that this lazy comedy is a remake of 1969's Cactus Flower - a fizzy concoction starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her efforts - and be prepared to pick your jaw up off the floor, as I did, when another Oscar winner, Nicole Kidman, shows up playing fourth fiddle to Aniston.
In Cactus Flower, Walter Matthau (playing a dentist, but that profession doesn't allow breast jokes) lied about marriage to only one woman — Oscar winner Goldie Hawn — as a defense mechanism against commitment, not a predatory ploy.
"Just Go with It" is a remake of 1969's Walter Matthau-Ingrid Bergman-Goldie Hawn screwball comedy "Cactus Flower," itself based on a 1965 Broadway show by Abe Burrows that was adapted from the French play "Fleur de cactus" by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy (phew!).
It’s that its source material is the same as the Walter Matthau-Ingrid Bergman-Goldie Hawn 1969 screwball comedy “Cactus Flower.”
If you’re starting to acquire a sense of deja vu it’s because deep down somewhere inside “Just Go With It” is an attempt by director Dennis Dugan (a Sandler regular) to remake “Cactus Flower,” the 1969 comedy in which Walter Matthau portrayed a womanizing dentist, Ingrid Bergman his matronly assistant and an Oscar-winning Goldie Hawn as the geezer’s barely legal fiancée.
And, in a hilarious one-scene bit, Rachel Dratch (2009's " My Life in Ruins ") is a spitfire as an eyebrow-afflicted patient of Danny's.
As Eddie/Dolph Lundgren, Nick Swardson's (2007's " Blades of Glory ") efforts fall more flat than not.
Bailee Madison (2010's " Conviction ") steals her scenes as the theatrical young Maggie, her British accent put-on never failing to rustle up laughs.