Pretty standard Sandler: Rob Schneider in a small role and lots of walrus vomit (but racist...?)

Rating: Null/10 (1 May 2004)

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore ply their chemistry well on screen for a second time, with this film that a friend of mine has described as `Memento: The Rom Com.' Barrymore is a car accident survivor who has lost her ability to form short term memories, so that every morning is, for her, the morning before the accident. Enter Sandler, who, for purposes of this movie, is the sitcom version of a marine veterinarian: he barely ever seems to have to show up for work, leaving him with plenty of time to woo Barrymore's accident victim, struggling to prove their relationship to her addled mind every day. (And, responding to the racism charge... yeah, it's true, this film was not fleshing out very deep or different characters out of its' Hawaiian cast... (Rob Schneider himself wasn't that deep) but everybody was pretty cardboard and barely above stereotypical. Offensively so? In the eye of the beholder, true, but I didn't go to this film to take my first notes for a history of Polynesian cultures... or veterinary medicine, for that matter...) After that, it's pretty normal Sandler, you know, Rob Schneider in a small role and lots of walrus vomit