Not Punch Drunk Love, Not Billy Madison, but somewhere in between...

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2004)

This was a really cute film.
Part Groundhog Day, part Wedding Singer and even part Goodbye Lenin, this film impressed me more than I thought it would.
Barrymore is the only female lead that has really matched Sandler and they have a lovely chemistry together.
While still having the trademark Rob Schneider and various side 'characters', they seem more subdued than in some other Sandler films, so that the film retains the Sandler charm but is less annoying.

Somewhere between the glorious Punch Drunk Love and the well, childish, Billy Madison, 50 First Dates is a charming romantic comedy that surprisingly enough, left me with a tear in my eye.
See it with an open mind.
9/10