at the edge of ridicule

Rating: 3/10 (16 September 2004)

'50 First Dates' competes for the title of the worst film of the year. The story is set in Hawaii, and the hero is a local skirt-chaser falling in love with a girl hit by a kind of amnesia that makes her forget overnight everything that happened before the car accident she went through. The idea of falling in love again each day has some potential, unfortunately the script goes all the time the easy way, combining bad taste and bore. The cinematography does not exceed in quality vacation commercials. The humor, if we can call it so is worse than in TV comedy series, reminding the 60s animals series for children. Drew Barimore acts decently, but cannot save this bad film alone. 3 out of 10 on my personal scale.