So out of all of Adam Sandler’s movies, this is one of the less horrible ones. Though saying that is kind of like looking at your fridge of all expired food and saying, “well that one didn’t taste AS bad as the others… It wasn’t good though.”.
So the premise of this movie is a bit ridiculous. It’s about Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore starring in their third romantic comedy together as a widow and a divorcee respectively who end up falling for each other on an African safari. I had seen the trailer for this movie a while back and thought, oh great another piece of Adam Sandler’s garbage is about to be tossed directly into Auditorium 4 at my local theater… While the movie is really horrible, you gotta give it a couple points for effort.
And the effort is really what counts here! I’ve seen Billy Madison and part of Happy Gilmore, and I was not the biggest fan of either. In my opinion, the closest Adam Sandler has come to a good movie is Click and Bedtime Stories in that order. But at this stage of the game, we’ve passed those two and, well… Jack and Jill happened! And Grown Ups 2 happened! And That’s My Boy happened! It’s at the point where Adam Sandler sends out a group message to all of his friends and says, I could use another paycheck, and I had this great idea 4 drinks in last night. Let’s get the camera! At this point, after all of those atrocities, you can at least tell with this movie that Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are putting in the effort. Even the awful kid actors are trying hard. And I have to cut the movie some slack for that.
My Movie Thoughts 