50 First Dates
Ok, is it an Adam Sandler movie or is it a Drew Barrymore movie? Well, it's both. You get the fun and humor of a good Sandler movie mixed with the romantic 'chick flick' side that Drew brings to the screen. Basically, if you like The Wedding Singer, you'll like this movie, too.
Quick plot summary: Groundhog Day in Hawaii.
Not as quick plot summary: Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is afraid of attachment. He only dates women on vacation to Hawaii so he can easily avoid having a long term relationship. This all changes the moment he meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) and falls in love. One small problem though; Lucy was in a car accident a year ago and only retains her memory for 24 hour periods, forgetting everything that happens the previous day. After discoving her condition, Henry does what any guy would do when in love with a girl with no short term memory. He spends each day making her fall back in love with him all over again.
Sandler is back in good form again after putting out a few duds. He movie buddy, Rob Schneider, plays a pretty big role in the movie and is really quite toned down for those of you who can't stand him being over-the-top wacky. There's also quite a few references to Sandler's other films if you watch close enough. Drew is cuter and cuter in each new movie I see her in, including this one. And really Drew and Sandler work well and look natural together on screen. And luckily there is chemistry between them on screen or else this movie would have been shite.
The biggest gripe I had about the film was that the ending was crap. Other than that, I really didn't have much to nitpick on. I actually like watching these romantic comedies (or 'chick flicks' if that's an actual genre yet) unlike most guys I know, or else I probably would have bitched about the inevitable emotional/romantic parts of the film.
Alas, if you don't care for romantic comedies, but like a good Adam Sandler film...I'd have to say just watch the damn thing.
If we had some funky 5 star rating system, I'd give it around 3 3/4 stars.
1 Comments:
Watched this last weekend.
Gadzooks, it wasn't repetitious! Fairly entertaining, and I would classify this as an easily tolerable chick-flick, as opposed to (<--replaced "not like, say" cliche w/ this one :-P) Fried Green Tomatoes, or "Love, Actually" . The only other movie I've seen since this one is that Love Actually one, which I couldn't even muster myself up to write a review on. In that one they soap opera it up enough with almost enough parallel stories so you at least enjoy half of them.
Off to watch the storm.
3 funky stars.
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