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| BIG DADDY (1999) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 42 out of 100
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by Lew Irwin
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Adam Sandler's new status as a member of Hollywood's $20-million-per-movie club, hasn't brought him concurrent respect from newspaper critics. He's taking a drubbing from them as his latest movie, Big Daddy, opens today (Friday) Comments Rod Dreher in the New York Post: "In the instance of Adam Sandler and his curiously lucrative career, has anybody parlayed so little into so much since Hillary Clinton deigned to trade commodities for a day?" He calls the movie, "the laziest, most slapdash and altogether crummy picture Sandler's done to date." In her review of the movie, Janet Maslin of the New York Times notes that the film's director, Dennis Dugan, once remarked, "I'd work with Sandler if he called up and said, 'I've got an idea to dramatize the phone book.'" Comments Maslin, "On the evidence of Big Daddy, that's not such a joke." John Anderson of Newsday offers this formula for watching an Adam Sandler movie: "Just find your center. Zen out. The entire experience -- like a difficult labor or a speech by Fidel Castro -- eventually has to end." But Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal predicts big things for Big Daddy. "The target beholders here are young people with disarray in their own lives," he writes, "plus plenty of anxiety about eventual parenthood. If they don't make this new comedy a huge hit, I'm a monkey's adoptive uncle." |
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