50 First Dates

50 First Dates.
By Joe De Matteo

Solid (for me) 

I love a movie with a premise.  I’ll accept almost anything.  No, I’ll accept anything.

When I watch a movie I want to be taken away from reality.  That’s why I’m perfectly willing to accept any premise; I’ll go along with the most off-the-wall, unbelievable, even unreasonable reasoning that the characters use to explain the premise.  That is, as long as the story itself is worthy. 

“This can’t be happening, Professor.  In the name of Mushka, how can dust mites become the size of RVs and start feeding on human intestines?” 

“Of course I can’t be completely sure yet, but if my preliminary research is correct, the global warming trend, which has caused this severely cold weather, has cause the dry air in our overheated homes to create an abnormally high static electric charge, which combined with the active ingredient in bathroom cleaner…” 

Great, says I, I’m buying that, now tell me a good story. 

One other thing, are giant dust mites eatable? 

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore have teamed up again to give us a cutesy light comedy. 

Honesty break: I’m not crazy about Adam Sandler, however, I believe he’s very talented.  Unfortunately for me, he’s always Adam Sandler playing…  

As an aside, I heard Keifer Sutherland say that as a kid he was watching a movie in which his mother played a leading roll, and about half-way through it, he forgot he that that woman was his mother.  Well, I don’t think that can happen with Adam Sandler.  

I gave Anger Management 5-Stars, I liked the Wedding Singer and Mr. Deeds primarily because these roles were good roles for Adam Sandler.

           In 50 First Dates, Adam Sandler plays a guy who goes along with a crazy situation because he’s Adam Sandler.  It works.  It’s funny.  The characters are likeable, and the story is a good one. 

Some people have a problem with the premise.

Well, go watch a documentary then.  What do you expect from an Adam Sandler movie?  What kind of moron would sit down to watch an Adam Sandler movie and then complain he has a problem with the premise?  Let me answer that.  No, I’d better not.

There should be a law that critics should not be allowed to review the types of movies that they don’t like, or normally don’t get.  Like some panty-wipe reviewing Terminator 3 and complaining about gratuitous violence and stilted acting by the robot.  Hey, panty-wipe, don’t watch and critique Terminator 3, you just won’t get it.  Do something sensitive, take a fatherless kid out to a ball game or something.

Do you like Adam Sandler?  Do you like Drew Barrymore?  Do you like the Adam Sandler type of romantic comedy?  If the answer is yes, go see 50 First Dates.  Chances are you’ll like it.

Hey, look at this; in a 485-word review I’ve used the name Adam Sandler 11 times (nope, make that 12).
         

  COMMENTARY

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ally pat

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Ok, i have written a few reviews, but i think this one is a review I have been wanting to write for a while (for this movie). Mainly because anything Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore and in, its fantastic, and putting these two together was a good way to start a comedy. I love how Adam can do a movie, get some old celebrities,new,unknown and make them look good. Anger Management was so good, every scene was fantastic. And bringing his old time pals like Rob, Alan, Steve (Buschemi), Dante..ect and they are all sooo good. Yer. Maybe 50 First Dates was a little..KEYWORD:little, but, Adam and his mates have so much professionalism when they work on movies together, they all make it funny, so bravo.

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