Too many dates, too few laughs

Rating: 4/10 (23 October 2013)

Sandler plays a Marine Biologist who spends his time having brief affairs with women while they on in vacation or so we are told in the opening segment of the film.
The film is set in Hawaii, although I am not sure with all the reggae music played throughout the film.
We only see Sandler once trying to woo a woman holidaying in the island.
The rest of the time, he has been smitten by Drew Barrymore, a lady he has met in a breakfast cafÃ© and has fallen for her.
The problem is, she suffers from short term memory loss and each new day she forgets who he is and what happened yesterday.
Your heart goes out to her father and steroid enhanced brother who have to repeat information each new day.
What looks like an interesting take on a romantic comedy genre just runs out of gas and gets rather dull.
Sandler is trying to hit all the sweet spots that his audience now expects. Rob Schneider, check. Some 80s music with a reggae twist this time, check. Some gross out humour, check.
However Sandler is not a strong enough actor to carry the more depth required when dealing with the brain trauma issues raised by this film and cannot match Drew Barrymore in the acting stakes.
It is not all Sandler's fault, the script is not edgy enough, although it wants to subvert the rom-com genre, it gets too repetitive leaving this viewer slightly bored.
Kudos to the film-makers for having an ending that does not go for the easy option.