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...suggesting that they are out-of-touch with average moviegoers. Of course, film critics have their biases. Indeed, certain movie genres, namely horror and comedy, are perennially panned. Unsurprisingly, a majority of this year’s unscreened films fall into one of those categories. In particular, Adam Sandler??s production company—Happy Madison Productions—has blighted the cinematic landscape twice this season, with puerile ensemble farces “Grandma’s Boy” and “Benchwarmers.” Both movies suffer from hoary plots, cut-rate production...
...group of fellow inmates in a high-publicity football game against the prison’s guards. Rock plays the Caretaker, a fellow prisoner who offers Sandler support and comic relief. The film is a remake of a 1974 film of the same name, which featured Burt Reynolds in Sandler??s role and James Hampton as the Caretaker...
...films roll along you’ll think it’s the same old Sandler??calm, nice guy prone to atomic burst of anger—but as John Clasky he proves once and for all that he’s got dramatic chops. Sandler is beginning to mature into an excellent actor, balancing the heavy drama with nuanced cool, and the comic—well, he never really had a problem with that. At one point Brooks even adds a little meta-joke about the Sandler character: annoyed with one of his employees Sandler bursts into...
...Mule Session,” sung in a country-blues style over inarticulate strums of acoustic guitar: “My sister’s on the dope and my brother always picks his nose.” This album, as is the case with many of Sandler??s previous albums, is a resurrection of all of those jokes you remember hearing long ago in grammar school being spit out by purple-faced boys between stifled guffaws. I dare not think that the age group targeted by this album is greater than that of the average high school...
...Don’t Tell is sure to please the die-hard Sandler fan and a few surprising social groups, too. Even though the average person could perceive much of the content of this album to be offensive, it remains true to Sandler??s longtime mantra of making people laugh, period. The courage to be himself—even if that self is an immature, potty-humor-revering grown man—and to challenge the heavily imposed restrictions of the media today, is somewhat admirable...