Boring

Rating: 4/10 (25 June 2006)

There weren't enough click gags to keep this going, and the stupid sentimental stuff at the end seemed to drag on forever. Too bad, because the idea was quite good, and Sandler is good at what he does, although he's doing like the old Jerry Lewis comedies which always ended up towards the end moving into sentimental sloppy sorry stuff. Walkien was terrific, the family was cute, and it was nice to see a movie which sent the message that family life is what's best for us (to the extent we identify with Sandler, which isn't to many.) Anyway, we only watched it because the other movie possible we'd already seen, the Lake House, which also was on a love theme, that it's good to wait a couple of years for the one you love, but was also predictable, but in fact more believable than this one. Well, it's not about believability, but just about being able to show more creativity.