| A WASTE OF 50 DATES | ||||||||||||||
| Glenn gives you 50 reasons why you shouldn't see the "romantic" "comedy" 50 First Dates | ||||||||||||||
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| The pineapple is the best thing about 50 First Dates | ||||||||||||||
| 50 Reasons Why You Shouldn�t See 50 First Dates 1. Sean Astin�s ridiculous and embarassing performance 2. Rob Schneider�s stupid performance 3. Adam Sandler�s (more than usual) smarmy performance 4. Sean Astin and Rob Schneider�s accents 5. The male/female employee at the zoo (played by Lusia Strus) 6. It�s reliance on cute animals 7. Ditto with annoying brats 8. It�s constant barrage of Hawaiian seascapes 9. It�s too long (yes, even at 99minutes. I swear it felt longer) 10. It�s screenplay is woeful 11. It�s bizarre tonal changes 12. Drew Barrymore�s awkward wet t-shirt scene, which is in the wrong movie 13. The stretching of plausibility: Adam Sandler as the male Hawaiian version of "Sex & The City"�s Samantha? 14. It isn�t romantic 15. It isn�t funny 16. The lack of any emotion 17. It isn�t remotely close to being good 18. It lacks everything that makes great romantic comedies great 19. It Has an uncomfortable use of comedy (see the dream sequence) 20. It wastes the admittedly wonderful chemistry of Drew & Adam 21. It doesn't use Drew Barrymore to her utmost ability 22. The story is actually quite sad yet it is played as an extremely broad comedy with transsexuals (maybe) and penguins 23. The weird violent nature of it 24. It�s smarmy 25. It�s cocky 26. The director, Peter Segal (also of the better but still bad Anger Management) has NO knack for comedy 27. A weird and extremely unfunny cameo by serial-bad-movie-cameo-artist Dan Ackroyd (see also; Loser) 28. Out of place slapstick comedy (that isn�t funny, either) 29. Bad animal sex jokes 30. The fact that the condition Drew Barrymore suffers from isn�t even real! 31. The screenwriter doesn�t even care enough to tell us what job Adam Sandler has (we assume he�s a marine biologist but we�re never actually told. See no. 11) 32. It gives away the ending of The Sixth Sense (would you forgive your friend for doing that?) 33. It�s quasi-homophobic 34. It�s quasi-racist (or, just why didn�t they hire a Native Hawaiian instead of dressing Rob Schneider up in silly make-up?) 35. The vomiting walrus 36. Unlike other movies of the genre you walk out in other but a good mood! 37. I did not laugh once 38. I did not even smile once 39. The obvious plot hole that Drew Barrymore cannot spend all day watching tapes of things that have happened. That�s just stupid 40. The sometimes overly preachy dialogue � �Yesterday Is History, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a present.� 41. During the date/waking up portion it is very repetitive 42. Very sitcom-esque 43. �Look at me. I�m quirky� 44. It�s few �sincere� moments are too droll to be of any substance 45. It�s self-important 46. Drags out some of its running gags and sub-plots way too long 47. Adam Sandler�s crying scene. Just pathetic 48. People actually think they can compare this with Groundhog Day and even more blasphemous in comparison, Memento! It doesn't even come close! 49. It�s a confused mess 50. �There actually aren�t 50 dates (sorry to ruin the surprise) So, if you're after a delightful, romantic, charming, dramatic, impeccibly acted and directed and funny movie from 2004... don't see this. Try Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind instead. But if you are after a romantic comedy that is neither funny nor romantic, but is actually smarmy and uncomfortable, give this a try. D- |
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| Stop the pain and go to Glenn's place for coffee | ||||||||||||||
| Or go Home and veg on the couch | ||||||||||||||