It was a box office showdown between a 16-year-old superstar and a 44-year-old superstar who still thinks he’s 16, with the oldster showing the whippersnapper how it’s done.
Adam Sandler’s Just Go With It barely edged the concert biopic Justin Bieber: Never Say Never this week, $31 million to $30.3 million. It was the 11th time that a Sandler-fronted film has climbed to top the box office, which means that the comic is laughing all the way to the bank. Wrote movie critic Scott Mendelson:
For 13 years, Adam Sandler has been the most consistent opener in the business, bar none. His movies may often be terrible, and his fans seem to sniff out and avoid his quality fare as a matter of principle, but Sandler is without question the biggest comedy star of his generation and the biggest movie star to emerge from Saturday Night Live.
I sat through all 17 hours of Just Go With It (or maybe it just seemed that long), and I gotta say that it’s amazing how two pretty likable stars (Jennifer Aniston shares top billing with Sandler) always seem to land in such horrible movies. From what I hear from Adam Holz, Bieber was the better bet this weekend: Even if you’re not a fan of the mop-haired one going into the film, there’s a chance you could be once you leave.
Gnomeo and Juliet, a G-rated animated lark from Touchstone Pictures, finished third with $25.5 million, while yet another newcomer, The Eagle, flapped to a distant fourth with $8.6 million. The Roommate, a holdover from last week, rounded out the top five.
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