Great movie about abuse of OTC medicine, first movie I've seen that's based on a Robotrip

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2006)

I liked this movie a lot, but I don't think most people realize that this movie is based entirely on Adam Sandler having a "Robotrip". Many people complain that the movie should have kept the funny theme going that it had during the first half of the movie, but that would change the director's intent of creating the movie. Remember when he chugs the bottle of medicine after coming home from work near the beginning of the movie? He has a life-changing event during his "trip", which is said to occur in many of people's trips off DXM, the active ingredient in cough syrup. If the movie didn't turn sad half way through, the robotrip wouldn't have been complete. I think this is their way of promoting abuse of OTC drugs without directly stating this. I have searched online through all sorts of forums and no one has really talked about the fact that what this is based on is very inapropriate. I'm quite surprised honestly most movies get hammered for things like this, but this movie sort of kept a low profile, hell most people don't even realize he's having a hallucination/dream.