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Hanson said he believes The Game is about more than getting drunk...
Critics might want to start downloading because with Punch-Drunk Love (see review), the cultural significance of Sandler's work has become a serious proposition. In his new movie, Sandler plays a plunger salesman who dreams of escaping his banal existence via frequent-flyer miles. As far as romantic comedies go, it's very strange, which is what you would expect from director Paul Thomas Anderson of Magnolia and Boogie Nights. What you don't expect is an art film starring Sandler, whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage...
Like the Cajun numskull in 1998's The Waterboy, Sandler's character in Punch-Drunk Love, Barry Egan, is prone to violence but hates himself for it. Like the rich slacker who returns to elementary school as an adult in 1995's Billy Madison, Egan is ultimately redeemed by the unwarranted love of a woman (Emily Watson). Some will say Sandler has developed an edge--indeed, the R-rated Punch-Drunk Love is much darker than, say, The Wedding Singer--but Sandler has always had a dark side. It has been relegated to his successful, warning-labeled comedy albums...
...finally, what in the name of all that's unholy does Lena Leonard (Emily Watson) see in this creepy, inarticulate character? She is stalking him almost from the beginning of the movie, a knowing little smile on her face, as if she knows what we cannot imagine: that Punch-Drunk Love is bound for the glory of a happy (or at least romantically promising) ending...
...Look, I ran for UC president drunk, and I’m going to serve as UC president drunk...