This movie sucks big hairy goat balls. Don't waste your money. Worth a rental only if you're thoroughly trashed.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Adam Sandler fan. He's my personal hero. But even that bias couldn't save this plodding beast from being DOA at the theaters. Canned, unfunny jokes coupled with sterotypical, shallow characters and an overly predictable plot (though the ending was a mild twist) make this easily Sandler's worst movie ever.
I loved Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, the Wedding Singer, Waterboy.. I own all of them on DVD. But I'd have to receive this one as a gift...no, even then I'd sell it. And I own Zoolander, if that says anything.
So many times during the movie there's the option for the cheap-shot joke that you'd fully expect a suffering writer to insert as an easy copout. You'll sit there seeing it come a mile away, pleading "no, please don't..." and they will. Add to that the presentation of the jokes are largely half-assed and seem to be thrown in just to fill space. Several times the quality of the scene paled in comparison to some student films I've seen...bad student films to boot. And several of the jokes that *weren't* obvious were just so out of left field they failed to hold any relevance to anything, resulting in "un-funny" and a stoic silence from the audience where laughter should have been, had the writers not been lobotomized.
There were two things saving this movie from being a complete loss - John Tuturro as Emilio the Butler (simply hilarious, if not mildly bizarre) and a completely retarded slapstick scene involving cats being thrown from a window.
My rating: 1/2* out of ****
Had this movie lacked the saving graces I mentioned above, it would have entered the dubious rankings of "Worst Movies Ever" alongside Wild Wild West, Barb Wire, Escape from LA, and Judge Dredd.
No, my boy Adam isn't losing it. Everyone is entitled to their mistakes. But this one had better be his worst.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Adam Sandler fan. He's my personal hero. But even that bias couldn't save this plodding beast from being DOA at the theaters. Canned, unfunny jokes coupled with sterotypical, shallow characters and an overly predictable plot (though the ending was a mild twist) make this easily Sandler's worst movie ever.
I loved Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Little Nicky, the Wedding Singer, Waterboy.. I own all of them on DVD. But I'd have to receive this one as a gift...no, even then I'd sell it. And I own Zoolander, if that says anything.
So many times during the movie there's the option for the cheap-shot joke that you'd fully expect a suffering writer to insert as an easy copout. You'll sit there seeing it come a mile away, pleading "no, please don't..." and they will. Add to that the presentation of the jokes are largely half-assed and seem to be thrown in just to fill space. Several times the quality of the scene paled in comparison to some student films I've seen...bad student films to boot. And several of the jokes that *weren't* obvious were just so out of left field they failed to hold any relevance to anything, resulting in "un-funny" and a stoic silence from the audience where laughter should have been, had the writers not been lobotomized.
There were two things saving this movie from being a complete loss - John Tuturro as Emilio the Butler (simply hilarious, if not mildly bizarre) and a completely retarded slapstick scene involving cats being thrown from a window.
My rating: 1/2* out of ****
Had this movie lacked the saving graces I mentioned above, it would have entered the dubious rankings of "Worst Movies Ever" alongside Wild Wild West, Barb Wire, Escape from LA, and Judge Dredd.
No, my boy Adam isn't losing it. Everyone is entitled to their mistakes. But this one had better be his worst.