Oh man was this a piece of shit!!!! Did Adam Sandler use up all of his funny or what? Chris Rock was even horrible in this! I couldn't even finish this one. Seeing how the last few years of film have gone for Sandler and company, I guess I should have expected this. At least I chuckled a few times during the last "Grown Ups" movie.
I'm usually one to laugh at some pretty bad jokes, but the only joke was the film itself. Netflix really screwed the pooch with this. Sandler plays Kenny, a father who's dentist daughter (Allison Strong) is marrying her African-American doctor boyfriend, Tyler (Roland Buck III). Kenny has made all of the arrangements for the wedding and all of the boarding arrangements for both families. Of course, everything goes all Murphy's Law.
Kenny's family is a blue-collar working family. Kenny lives in a modest house on Long Island with his wife Debbie (Rachel Dratch) and their four children. Debbie, of course is insane, and Kenny is her doormat. Meanwhile, Tyler's father (Rock) is a famous heart surgeon in Los Angeles who is definitely more accustomed to the finer things in life.
Essentially, Kenny has made reservations for Tyler's family and his own incoming relatives to stay at the hotel that his company renovated. The hotel is equal to that of a Quality Inn and is also booked as the wedding venue. The place begins falling apart just as the guests start to arrive, leaving Kenny to make other arrangements on the fly. Those arrangements consist of everyone staying in his home.
The same predictable hootenanny transpires from day to day, driving Kenny to the breaking point. I don't know why I agreed to watch this with my daughter. She usually has a great sense for good movies that don't look that good. She really failed me this time. But not as much as I've been failed by Adam Sandler.
Where are the "Happy Gilmore"'s of today? What happened to the guy from "Big Daddy" or "Airheads"? I guess we are going to have to look to Indie films for our comedy now? It seems as though that is the only place to really find what you're looking for. Unless what you're looking for are comic book movies or action films. That's the only place that the big studios are getting it right.
In the end, this was really a horrible film. It's not worth your time, at all. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, not even the die hard Sandler fans. Sorry, just being honest.
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