This Movie Blows Like Katrina

Rating: 1/10 (26 October 2006)

This movie was REALLY HORRIBLE. I can't put it more accurately. I'm an Adam Sandler fan. I'm an SNL alumni film fan. I have read the people think this started as a comedy and then they decided to make it a drama-yeah right. I think they started as a comedy and failed so miserably that it's difficult to tell exactly what it is. The fact of the matter is, the people that made this movie simply put as little time and creativity into the movie as possible and still get it into theaters. The gags weren't funny, and the sad parts were just juvenile. The situations were all poorly developed so that I never really cared anything about Adam Sandler's character. I love sophomoric humor, but the writers tried WAY too hard to be hip, smart and sarcastic, and just came off as embarrassingly stupid, mean and just plain not-funny. The dog humping the stuffed animal was about as amusing as well.. a dog humping a stuffed animal. And by the fifth time, I began to wonder if the writers just stopped trying all together and let 3rd-graders finish the movie. I never saw the main character do anything really impressive with the time that he supposedly deprived his family of. In addition, the problem seemed to be that when he fast forwarded, he behaved like a zombie and missed everything. All of a sudden he was magically some sort of "Super Architect", for no apparent reason. The whole point of this type of story is to tell the viewer to wake up, change your life and be a better person (Scrooge, Ground Hog Day, Wizard of OZ, etc), but his whole problem stemmed not from his hard-working personality, but from the magic remote control. So what's the message here, don't use magic remote controls or you'll be sorry? Well, I don't have a magic remote, but I am am sorry...sorry I watched this movie!