Charming Love Story, Questionable Gags

Rating: 8/10 (13 September 2019)

It's difficult to know just how rate this film because the love story with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore together is inventive and delightful, as are the characters in drew barrymore's family to a lesser extent. But everything involving adam sandler as a marine veterinarian and his side show supporting cast is unbelievable and dreadful. I'm not an adam sandler hater or anything. While I found billy madison tiresome, I very much enjoyed Happy Gilmore, but why include that nonsense in a movie that isn't nonsense?
The Drew Barrymore story is endearing and brought tears to me eyes both by being touching and for being hilarious, sometimes at the same time. And I particularly liked that the film didn't feel the need to magically resolve everything, as would have happened in the old days with a second knock on the head. Instead the ending is possibly the best part of the whole film.