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...mind you, as the sort of crazed, braying idiot that Sandler??s been playing with fair consistency ever since his “Saturday Night Live” days, but as the deadpan-voiced everyman with the sweetly game smile that he’s tended to play in his past films’ quieter scenes. Here, he plays Barry Egan, a blue-suited salesperson with a warehouse office, seven emasculating sisters and a problem with emotional stability. Sandler??s performance is finely modulated, its simmering tenor punctuated by hilarious bursts of rage and passion. It?...
...happier human being, Sandler channels his flair for comic instability and rage in such a way that it makes him a more effective and believable dramatic actor; when an evolving Barry, looking for Lena, lets loose at his sister midway through the film, the lack of artifice in Sandler??s performance is remarkable to behold...
Anderson, working for the fourth time with cinematographer Robert Elswit, uses Sandler??s flashes of animalism to great visual effect; the film’s most lyrical image is of a silhouetted Sandler charging down a dark city street with the manic panic of a rabid cheetah, his tie flapping behind him in hypnotic rhythm. Following through on the theme is composer Jon Brion, who delivers a stripped-down, percussion-heavy score that flowers into a harmonium-accented love theme whenever Lena crosses Barry’s path...