I Laughed, I Cried

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2006)

Adam Sandler's movies will keep getting better and better. He will be standing up with an Oscar clutched in both hands. One day. Because he has the kind of understanding that is required to make consistently great movies: he understands the person in the movie theater who plunks down $8-10, takes his seat, and cries out ENTERTAIN ME! That person will watch this movie, come back again with a friend, and will be one of the first to snatch it up when it comes out on DVD.
And I can imagine he goes over the script, no matter who wrote it, and makes it an Adam Sandler film. He has never been known as a good writer, but he takes what is written for him, and makes it his own. Few film comedians can compare. And they are all Saturday Night Live alumnus. Made fairly low budget, makes great profit. Audiences like. Studios like.
If he keeps his head on his shoulders, he will have a long successful career. If he lets it go to his head, he'll make a costly movie that will bomb, and then another, and he'll wind up hosting a late night talk show, or sitcom, and bye-bye. But I truly think that will never happen.
In this movie he celebrates classic films, with a Jewish point-of-view. Go see it. Laugh. Cry. Go out of the theater a better person.