Jon Monsarrat review: too sweet to be goofy

Rating: 5/10 (19 April 2004)

A lot of films start with a silly premise. For example, Face/Off has two characters switching appearances. And The Butterfly Effect has this weird time-travel thing. The trick is not to dwell on the goofy premise, but to move past it.
Unfortunately, 50 First Dates does dwell on the memory problem of Drew Barrymore's character... and it gets tiresome. The characters get caught up in the seriousness of her illness and it loses the goofy cartoony character of a good comedy. You know, like in Something About Mary, there's plenty of pain but it's all cartoony pain, not real.
The awkwardness of dating the same woman in different ways got repetitive, I don't know, the film didn't work for me.
Who should see this film:
-- Only fans of the actors, on a rainy day
I'll give "50 First Dates" a wasted-my-time 5 out of 10.