Corporate Line: Henry Roth (Sandler), a veterinarian at an aquarium in Hawaii, falls in love with a girl, Lucy (Barrymore), with short-term memory loss, but he has to keep getting her to fall in love with him every time they meet in order for them to have a relationship, since she never remembers the last time she met him.
The Good: How many times do we have to see Rob Schneider as Adam Sandler’s sidekick? Honestly his character Ula is much more interesting, bad accent and all. Drew Barrymore is delicious. Perhaps the funniest aspect is watching how Berrymore and Sandler have no chemistry and how ridiculous it is to think that she’d fall in love with such a dope each morning.
The Bad: How many times can the question be asked; when the hell is Adam Sandler going to give up that asinine little boy voice? If there is anything more annoying in film today I don’t know what it is.
Again and again we’ve told our readers what to expect with Sandler films. His formula never changes. Sweet and sappy meets gross and grosser. Sandler always has to come out as the greatest guy in the world and wins the love of his life; you can’t tell if he even realizes he’s done the same movie a half-dozen times before. It’s so painfully predictable.
Speaking of painfully predictable, Sandler seems to always make jokes only a twelve year old could love. He resorts to jokes about dicks (in this case the size of a walrus’) old people swearing for laughs, Rob Schneider cracking us up when Sandler can’t, and of course the tried and true gay joke. Sandler is stuck in junior high.
Frankly: 50 First Dates is another chance for Adam Sandler to prove that he isn’t as talented as the cast around him. It’s funny that Sandler is the least funny person in the film. If Sandler really wanted a good comedy he’d have put Rob Schneider together with Drew Barrymore-now that would be funny and sort of messed up.
+ Charlie Craine
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