I wanted to title this entry "Grow up, Adam Sandler", but recoiled as it struck me that by not growing up was what make people love Adam Sandler.
We are trying to pick a movie for date night Wednesday. It's either Grown Ups or Going The Distance. Drew Barrymore versus Adam Sandler. Who can forget them in The Wedding Singer (1998)?
'So how?' I've asked my date, 'You gets to pick.'
'Kay.' Huiling replied, 'What is what?'
'One hand you have Barrymore which you seen and like her for her klutziness in Music and Lyrics (2007), 50 First Dates (2004) (again Sandler and Barrymore) and well, all her movies, she 's a sotong. This film is about two couples who met in a bar, liked what they seen and hooked up. The chick then gets to leave town and they opted for a long distance relationship. By which it is a good reflection on both theirs and the real couples' stuggle to love each other through phone sex, mails and text messages. It's a love story which can summarise and define true romance at the end of our date and allows us to go aww... on the way home.'
'On the other hand, Grown Ups is popularly funny, hopefully with David Spade and Chris Rock because you know that with Kevin James and Rob Schneider, it's all about drat physical comedy. Falling over stuff, bumping their heads, getting hit in the crotch, sleeping with grannies, stepping on shit, falling into shit, falling onto shit or getting wasted. But looking at the amount of stars in the show and the movie length of 100 minutes plus plus, they wil cram in as much face time that it can only come out as a show about friendship, family and Rob Schneider eating shit.'
'Well?' I asked.
'The funny one.' She gave.
The movie was just I anticipated. Almost.
Kevin James fell over everything. It was Spade that fell and ate shit, not Schneider, but Schneider gets to sleep with a granny. It is a film about lots of in-your-face forgetable physical comedy and an staggering screentime for Salma Hayek's boobies. She gets two stars for the movie for that.
Stars Rating: 
