An Utter Abomination

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2015)

Absolutely terrible film based upon the 1974 masterpiece which perverts the story into a pointless Adam Sandler Movie debacle. In comparison to the original, this is a travesty. As a stand alone motion picture, it is an insult to cinema and to all who have made it an art form. This is simply a vanity piece by someone who expended virtually every ounce of his limited talent on SNL years ago. From the Sony hacking event and the exposed studio e-mails we learned that even the bosses and fellow performers wonder why Sandler is still making movies. He has done well in one (Punch Drunk Love, because of Emily Watson) and fair in another, The Wedding Singer (largely due to Drew Barrymore.) This horrendous stinker is simply another addition to the garbage heap where old Sandler films are discarded after raking in money from a mindless movie going public. All his violations of cinema could be forgiven, however, if this man would keep his hands off classic films and not attempt to further corrupt the legacy of great motion pictures left us by the true artistic masters.