Big Daddy
1999 Directed by Dennis Dugan
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Nature called. Look who answered.
Layla Maloney is fed up with boyfriend Sonny Koufax's perpetual loafing, so when 5-year-old Julian is left on Sonny's doorstep, he assumes a fatherly role to prove he's responsible and to win Layla's love. Trouble is, Sonny has grown attached to the kid, who's really the son of his out-of-town roommate.
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Like watching Kramer vs Kramer while being lobotomized by a screaming monkey.
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A really random rewatch inspired by some pseudo-existential conversations with a friend that happened to be weirdly related to Big Daddy. It retains a little bit of nostalgic value simply because of how much I used to watch it as a kid, but in case you were wondering, it's not any good. Granted, it's not a movie that's really meant to be taken seriously or anything, but tonally speaking, it has absolutely no idea what it wants to be, forever bouncing back and forth from questionable attempts at "pathos" to jokes about old balls and other relentlessly juvenile subjects. Maybe the thing that stands out the most is just how much Sandler's unlikelyhero!slacker Sonny Koufax now seems like a disingenuous…
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Adam Sandler as Adam Sandler stars in "Adam Sandler & The Kid"
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Definitely one of the more well-rounded Sandler movies. It's a nice balance between family friendly and adult humor.
Also introduces the term "Big Boobs McGee" into the English vernacular.
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One of the better Sandler films, I think mostly cause they added an emotional kid element. Try not to cry when the whole scam goes bad and the aftermath of that. I feel like it would be a lot like if someone ever dumped a kid on me, how I would deal with it and such. All the supporting cast is fantastic, especially Buscemi and the old guy from Road Trip.
Swanson is degraded to the role of b*tch, which is sad, cause I love her. But...Adams plays a pretty good leading lady. Sandler's banter with Mann is great. Jon Stewart really isn't in this film a lot sadly.
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With Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer and The Waterboy all under his belt by now Adam Sandler had established himself as a one of the funniest comedians in Hollywood who's movies where all can't miss. When Big Daddy came out I was all over that thing it was sure to be as great as all the others right?
Well although not a bad movie by any means it was the first movie that Sandler did that I didn't think was funny as hell. Even The Wedding Singer who's comedy was much tamer then the rest of Sandler's movies was great this one though, yeah I don't know it just felt like there was something missing that just held…
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those twin boys are in this. gotta start somewhere.
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It was funny.
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I missed like the first half-hour of it, but overall enjoyed it. Sappy and clichéd, but it was still fun and, to some extent, touching. I haven't seen Sandler's more dramatic roles, but I can hint this was an approach to that. He was pretty good.
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I won't even give this steaming pile of irredeemable donkey vomit half a star. For movies like this, the site really should also include the ability to give out negative stars, for "films" that are such shit-piles of tasteless, moronic, sentimental dreck, that everyone who comes into contact with it is infected with chronic stupidity that can only be cured by such high levels of alcohol consumption that enough permanent brain damage will be incurred to effect the memory center of the brain, where this godawful fucking waste of 90 minutes is permanently entombed with CDC tape surrounding it to protect your other memories.
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Cute, I guess.
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Not the best Adam Sandler movie, but definitely not the worst either.
I laughed several times, the romance wasn't too cheesy and it didn't try to dick around with all the emotions Sandler tried to shoehorn into his movies later in life [thanks for Click, dickhead]
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The kid(s) from this movie turns 21 this year. I feel old.
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Hip, Hip-hop, Hip-hop Annonymous
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It's dumb, but it's funny.