Brilliant

Rating: 8/10 (10 November 2006)

A fantastic film. I went to see this with my friends as a typical student, we just want to laugh because we're bored, kind of film. By the end we all walked out crying. I had to phone my parents when I got in just to tell them that I loved them.
This film was advertised as a typical, Adam Sandler, comedy film. Control your life?! Hilarious! But the humour was subtle (after a few screaming moments at the start) and the emotional depth and morals of the film really shone through. As Sandler's character began skipping through his life, his children grew up and his wife divorced him, there was just something in the direction and that action that touched me. And judging by the reactions of the rest of the cinema it touched a lot of other people too.
It was emotional, it was heartbreaking at the end. It spoke to it's audience. One of the best, most emotional, funny films I have seen this year. And it made me think, and indeed appreciate the parents I hadn't seen for over a month by that point.
The film would have received 10/10, however the ending, in my opinion completely ruined the whole film. I understand it makes sense for a comedy to have a happy ending. But when a film has managed to reduce it's audience to tears, has made them feel something for characters in an Adam Sandler comedy then the happy ending is not needed. Making the whole film a dream was, in my opinion, the worst decision the writers could have made.
However, if you buy the DVD and stop the film before that happens, you will not be disappointed.