One of the Best Adam Sandler movies.

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2008)

The Wedding Singer is just one of those movies where at the end, you truly feel like those 97 minutes of movie you just saw, were 97 minutes well spent.
The movie talks about Robbie Hart (played by Sandler), who is struggling with, but loves, his profession as a wedding singer. He loves the idea of marriage, love and the idea of two people who will always be together, forever (This is where you'll probably find a studio audience, going, "Aw..."). He's the type of wedding singer that, when someone's had a little too much too drink at your wedding or that of a loved one's, you can count on him to smooth things over with a great personality, and with a great set of vocals to match. Sandler seems honest-to-god comfortable with his role, if not absolutely loving every minute of it. Just from the beginning scenes of the movie, you just start falling for this character and sympathizing with his need for companionship.
Now, Robbie's troubles start when Linda, his longtime sweetheart and fiancée, leaves him standing at the altar, and he drastically starts to progress into a depressing and somewhat pathetic state. In enters Drew Barrymore, as Julia Sullivan, the shy yet extremely lovely and sweet girl, who is engaged to Glenn, a womanizing narcissist.
Slowly but surely, you get the hint that by the end of the movie, Robbie and Julia have to get together. But that's just the beautiful part about it. Whether you enjoy romantic comedies or not, you want them to end up together. One component is the wonderful chemistry that the characters have, another is that of the chemistry of the actors. Even if Drew Barrymore's sometimes timid (which at times looks like bad acting) and sweet demeanor is just.... too sweet and too timid, you have Adam Sandler to yell his throat out with "Kill me Please", or charm a smile out of someone. When Sandler is too overbearing with his emotional outbreaks, and pathetic and futile outbursts, you have Barrymore there, ready to pick up his pieces and prevent him from putting a bullet to his head (or worse), with a loving expression and the always reoccurring, "I liked it."
You would think that movie like this would be absolutely dripping with the sickly sweetness of 90's romantic comedy (Pretty Woman, anyone?), but surprisingly, it's not. You have witty comments everywhere you look, a heart-wrenching breakup and a fresh script that makes you wonder about next week's wedding or if the nerd at the end of reception hall will ever really find true love. Or even if you will. Not to mention the wonderful soundtrack that goes along with the movie. (Who would have thought Adam Sandler was a great singer?)
But alas, the Wedding Singer isn't perfect. You're sometimes drowned in the 80's nostalgia, and after that 5 minute high of, "God, wasn't a great movie?", you do forget about it in a little while and you don't remember until someone mentions it to you, and you say, "The Wedding Singer? God, that was such a great movie!"
Overall though, it's well worth it, and I for one feel that out of all of the raunchy, sometimes tasteless and dumb train-wrecks Adam Sandler gets himself into, this was one train-wreck that wasn't really so much a wreck, more or so a well conducted pair of trains just passing through town.