With ANGER MANAGEMENT, Adam Sandler continues those first few tentative steps he took with Paul Thomas Anderson’s PUNCH DRUNK LOVE towards appealing to an audience over the age of eight and other than male. There it was a stab at dramatic respectability that worked beyond anyone’s expectations. Here he’s made the bold choice of moving… Read More »
50 FIRST DATES
With 50 FIRST DATES it seems as though Adam Sandler is going through an identity crisis of some sort. The film itself is an ill-conceived amalgam of sentiment played sweet not sappy, mixed uncertainly with the usual lower-than-low-brown humor with which Sandler’s films, PUNCH DRUNK LOVE excepted, are saturated. Hence the walrus spew scene less… Read More »