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The Perennial Playboy, commitment phobic and
full of enticing lines for any
woman who catches his fancy and is going to
be leaving on the next boat,
falls for Lucy, who has been in a car
accident and has lost her short-term
memory: she relives the same day over and
over, forgetting all about it in
her sleep, with the help of her enabling
family and friends.
Oh my god, I watched an Adam Sandler movie. And you know, it wasn't that bad. Truthfully, like Jim Carrey in a very few of his movies (The Truman Show and The Majestic come to mind), when Sandler isn't trying to convince you he's the funniest thing on two legs, he's not that bad. (Robin Williams used to be the funniest thing on two legs, but many of his later movies belied that impression...) Sandler is kinda charming as a guy who is in love with a woman to whom he has to introduce himself over and over and over. Her father and brother (played by Blake Clark and Sean Astin) are also nicely drawn characters, and the crew at the diner where she has breakfast every morning are great. But there were two things that were really annoying about this movie: Sandler's sidekick, an older (possibly german?) woman who gets all the sex jokes and old woman jokes and walrus barf and...you guessed it. Sandler doesn't do the gross-out stuff, so she gets it. Ew. Offensive and annoying. And then there's Drew Barrymore, who wins the Keanu Reeves Personality Sink award. Yes, she has negative amounts of charm...when she's on screen, not only does she have absolutely none of her own, but she's like a black hole, actually sucking the liveliness out of whomever is near her and deadening everything that happens in that scene. But hey, she's cute and isn't barfing on anything, and in an Adam Sandler movie that's a plus. Don't bother with this one, not much of a much, one idea that repeats itself over and over and over. |
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