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Schneider remains a card-carrying member of the Sandler Cinematic Universe. But Grown Ups 2 serves as a reminder that even in Hollywood’s most cliquish fraternity, sometimes the phone just doesn’t ring. And when the script calls for a deer on LSD instead of a soft-spoken hippie, the quirky best friend is the first to get cut. In the end, fans of Schneider can take solace: he missed a movie that holds a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Sometimes, the best cameo is the one you don’t make.
In the original film, Rob Hilliard was the weird, hippie-dippy stay-at-home dad who married a much older woman (played by Joyce Cohen) and had a son who was… unusual. His entire arc revolved around his eccentricity and his lack of traditional “success” compared to his friends. By the end of the first movie, that arc was complete. He had been accepted for who he was.
In interviews following the film’s release, both Sandler and Schneider cited as the primary reason. Schneider was committed to his TV obligations, and by the time the show ended, the Grown Ups 2 shooting script was locked, and the production was well underway. Sandler’s Happy Madison productions are known for moving quickly, and waiting for Schneider to become available wasn’t considered feasible. The Realistic Reason: Narrative Marginalization Even if scheduling was the official line, a closer look at the first Grown Ups reveals a more pragmatic truth: Schneider’s character had nowhere to go.
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Schneider remains a card-carrying member of the Sandler Cinematic Universe. But Grown Ups 2 serves as a reminder that even in Hollywood’s most cliquish fraternity, sometimes the phone just doesn’t ring. And when the script calls for a deer on LSD instead of a soft-spoken hippie, the quirky best friend is the first to get cut. In the end, fans of Schneider can take solace: he missed a movie that holds a 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Sometimes, the best cameo is the one you don’t make.
In the original film, Rob Hilliard was the weird, hippie-dippy stay-at-home dad who married a much older woman (played by Joyce Cohen) and had a son who was… unusual. His entire arc revolved around his eccentricity and his lack of traditional “success” compared to his friends. By the end of the first movie, that arc was complete. He had been accepted for who he was.
In interviews following the film’s release, both Sandler and Schneider cited as the primary reason. Schneider was committed to his TV obligations, and by the time the show ended, the Grown Ups 2 shooting script was locked, and the production was well underway. Sandler’s Happy Madison productions are known for moving quickly, and waiting for Schneider to become available wasn’t considered feasible. The Realistic Reason: Narrative Marginalization Even if scheduling was the official line, a closer look at the first Grown Ups reveals a more pragmatic truth: Schneider’s character had nowhere to go.
