Well, I finally saw it.

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2015)

I'm not sure what to say about it, other than I thought there would be a different ending to this film.
I remember the ads for this film years back, and I remember thinking what a funny film it promised to be. But, like a lot of Sandler's offerings, I just didn't find it, nor him and his dialogue, all that funny.
Maybe it's me. Maybe I'm just getting too darn old for comedies, but I still laugh at other films that don't have body function jokes, or swearing, or a target demographic audience in mind. And ultimately I think that's why I found this film to be a flop.
To anyone who reads my reviews you'll note that I do have a pretty high standard when it comes to films, but for a film that's supposed to be some kind of romantic comedy, why oh why is there a gag in there about a walrus and its body functions? Why is that funny? It actually isn't, and I'll bet the people in the theatre probably didn't laugh at the gag so much as at the ridiculousness of some director putting something that was sick and disgusting into the film.
Okay, to the film's story before I get too sidetracked; like I said in my opening sentences, I thought there would be a different ending, and a resolution to the main plot device that propels the entire film forward. But none such is the case. Instead we get a circumstance that is never resolved, and a romance revolving around that, which seems just ludicrous beyond belief.
The "Blue Ghost" version would have resolved Barrymoore's character, kept old fashioned comedic sense in the film, kicked the target audience oriented script out the window, and then have romance flourish more traditionally after straightening out the plot device. And, it would have been a better film.
I have to admit, I'm not a big Sandler fan, but I think both he and Barrymoore are decent performers when given the right material. Sandler doesn't strike me as any kind of leading man, even in a Jerry Lewis kind of way, and given the grade-level of his material, I am still mystified by people who keep this guy's career propped up.
Then again, the film isn't aimed at me. But, then again, nor were any of The Three Stooges shorts, nor any rom-com made before 1980, nor even the classic WB cartoons. And yet for some reason I find all those films funny.