"50 First Dates" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Mynd Hed]

Imagine having to win over the girl of your dreams... every friggin' day.

Release Date: February 13, 2004
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Peter Segal
Screenwriter: George Wing
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Dan Akroyd, Sean Astin, Blake Clark

Plot Summary: In the unforgettable romantic comedy "50 First Dates," love means never having to say, 'Who the hell are you?' Marine biologist Henry Roth (Sandler) finds the perfect woman, Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore), and falls head over heels for her. But when he sees her the following day, she hasn’t a clue as to who he is. Lucy suffers from a rare brain disorder that wipes her memory clean every night. Now, with the help of his friend Ula (Schneider), he has to concoct new and increasingly clever ways to meet her and get her to fall for him every friggin' day.

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[Mynd Hed]

Hope I got the format on this thread right-- I'm sure Pengy or someone will change it if I didn't. (-:

Anyway, I went and saw this with my lady friend last night despite trepidations. I love Adam Sandler, don't get me wrong, but in my opinion his last few films have been pretty muddled. Anger Management couldn't decide if it wanted to be an Adam Sandler movie with Jack Nicholson in it or the other way around, and wound up not satisfying on either level. Big Daddy let the sappiness get in the way of the humor. Wedding Singer let the humor get in the way of the sappiness. Punch Drunk Love, his attempt at an arthouse flick, wasn't funny OR sappy, just boring. And Mr. Deeds was just plain bad on all counts.

So while I'm a big fan of Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, the Waterboy, and Little Nicky (all films in which the comedy takes the forefront and the romance, if any, knows its place as second banana), I was nervous about this one. I was all prepped for something like The Wedding Singer-- a bunch of overly sappy romance crap for my girlfriend, with just enough chuckles peppered in there to keep me from walking out but not quite enough to really justify my eight bucks.

So imagine my surprise when this turned out to be, overall, one of the better Adam Sandler films I've seen. This is the movie that he's been trying to make for ages, perfectly blending non-sequitur Adam Sandler humor a la his early efforts with a really engaging romance, with neither aspect crowding the other one out. In fact, the humor and the romance so effortlessly blend into one another, often sharing the same scene without fighting, that it makes you wonder why it took him so long to get it right.

I will warn you: you'll only enjoy this movie if you're willing to suspend disbelief on its completely ridiculous concept and a plot point near the end (which I won't give away for those who haven't seen it) which makes absolutely no sense. But it's so charming, the funny bits are so funny and the "aww" bits make you go "aww" so effectively, that this is surprisingly easy to do-- and this is coming from a veteran nitpicker.

I give it a very strong B+.

[Conekiller]

The movie was more "chick-flick-y" than most Sandler movies, but I felt it was a step up, he was rather charming most of the movie as oppost to the stuck up A**H*le he usually plays.I think my Drew Barrymore crush has returned (unitll I see Spiderman 2 that is)