High-concept romantic comedy about a love-'em-and-leave-'em ladykiller, a marine-park veterinarian in Hawaii, who tumbles for a brain-damaged blonde who can retain no short-term memories since her year-ago car accident and who is doomed every day to relive the day of the accident with no knowledge of intervening days: a scoop …
Howard Ratner’s (Adam Sandler) day is consumed with robbing Peter to pawn to Paul. His life is a constant juggling act, his desperate ploy a complex series of bets involving a multitude of moving parts. If he can distract his clients long enough to keep afloat everything, the rewards could …
Animated holiday greeting card — Christmas and Hanukah both — addressed to Adam Sandler's flock: juvenile tastelessness sprinkled with sugar. Besides being the model for the bah-humbug protagonist, Sandler supplies four different voices, all of them irritating in different ways. And the brand names and corporate logos on parade — …
Wanna-be Dog Day Afternoon, only a (wanna-be) comedy, about a wanna-be rock band who take over an L.A. radio station with water guns, precipitating a standoff with police. (To maintain topicality, the cry of "Attica!" gets replaced by "Rodney King!") Good physical humor from Michael Richards; unrivalled by any other …
More disappointing than most Adam Sandler comedies because the subject was more promising: temper control. You would hardly know that that's the subject from the way the humor runs to sex, private parts, bodily functions, in short the toilet. The strong supporting cast is a sign of either Sandler's growing …
By Dominick’s (Kevin James) calculations, the aryan nationalist — he’s the one with the swastika yarmulke inked atop his parietal bone — has spent 54,538 hours behind bars mentally mapping out an escape route and he’s not about to let 15-year-old Becky (Lulu Wilson) upend his plans. This is not …
Uncle Skeeter’s yarn-spinning collaborations with button-cute niece and nephew — tales of the Dark Ages, the Old West, Ancient Greece, Outer Space — are translated magically into reality the following day. Adam Sandler, rarely funny anyway, shoots for the more attainable goal of schmaltzy. With Keri Russell, Russell Brand, Guy …
Adam Sandler adopts a five-year-old in order to appear mature by comparison and impress his girlfriend. It doesn't work: neither the impressing nor the appearing mature. Lovers of peepee jokes are requested to love him anyway. With Joey Lauren Adams, Leslie Mann, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Steve Buscemi; directed by …
A showcase for the talent-impaired Adam Sandler (co-written by him), in the impossible part of the idiot son of a hotel magnate, obligated to repeat grades one through twelve (two weeks apiece) if he hopes to inherit the family business. He -- it -- they -- are lazy and unimaginative …
From Adam Sandler and the other schmucks at Happy Madison Productions comes a comedy about a compulsive masturbator who suffers from microphallus. A clueless, virginal dweeb (Nick Swarsdon), whose overbite extends further than his manhood, discovers that Mom and Dad were legendary porn stars and decides to follow suit. Bucky, …
1) In order to boost sales, a young author and some friends visit a bookstore and loudly attempt to give her tome better shelf placement. 2) Two strangers exchange funny jabs after one attempts to cut in line at a Starbucks. 3) A date with a Gap model ends in …
Clunk. Patented Adam Sandler blend of juvenile misconduct and remorseful moralism. In the Beyond department at a Bed Bath and Beyond, an angel (Christopher Walken, looking more like a mad scientist) gives a "universal remote" to a harried workaholic, allowing him to mute the barking dog, fast-forward through a marital …
A monument of Success Going to One’s Head. The head in question belongs to writer-director-producer Judd Apatow, previously of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, but more widely known as just producer and/or writer, weather vane, fashion plate, brand name, school headmaster. In these capacities he has apparently accumulated sufficient …
From Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production outfit, a losers' comedy below the standard of the head man. Now, that's low. So, Allen Covert, instead, takes the lead role of an overaged video-game tester reduced to living with his grandmother and two old cronies (i.e., crones). It would play like a …