Not great, but above average rom-com with Sandler and Barrymore.

Rating: Null/10 (17 August 2004)

Sandler plays a marine biologist who lovingly cares for his assortment of animals in a SeaWorld type of environment. The opening sequence shows how he meets pretty Hawaiian tourists, romances them, and they leave, with no commitment, no follow up. Barrymore plays a very sweet instructor who has a loving father and brother, but a short-term memory problem that creates the interest in the movie's story. I mostly like both Sandler and Barrymore, and they are good together here. The story is a fantasy, and best appreciated as such. It doesn't come up to the standard set by my favorite rom-coms, but it is a very nice movie in its own way. The first half is not as enjoyable at times, because of the often silly humor, especially with Rob Schneider, but the second half makes the movie.
July 2017 update: I watched it again after all these years and most of it was fresh and entertaining. Schneider is still annoying.
SPOILERS follow, for my own recollection, please read no further.
When Sandler meets Barrymore in the local restaurant over breakfast, they hit it off immediately when he helps make a toothpick hinge for the house she is building with her waffles. She is different from all the others, and he looks forward to seeing her again the next morning. Which he does. But she has no memory of him and rebuffs what she senses is a pushy guy. Turns out she was in a car wreck a year or so earlier and developed a short-term memory problem, a specific kind (fantasy) which erases each day's new memories as she sleeps overnight. Akin to 'Groundhog Day', but exactly the opposite, where days continue but her memory does not. But Sandler persists, as he develops a particular affection for this sweet girl, gains the trust of her dad and brother, uses videotape to show her their relationship. Movie ends with her waking up on a boat, looking out a port hole, going on deck, there are Sandler and their daughter, videotape remaining her connection with previous days.