"Relax, don't do it!!" - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Rating: Null/10 (27 August 1999)

"The Wedding Singer" is a great, funny hybrid of a touching love story and an '80s flashback scrapbook. They've brought back a lot of 80's-oriented objects, like Rubic's cube, "Dallas" and so forth. Adam Sandler was perfect in this film, and Drew Barrymore does a really excellent job as Sandler's love interest. The rest of the cast was good, too, especially the Boy George wannabe, the rapping old lady, and Steve Buscemi, who croons a slightly off-key rendition to the Spandau Ballet hit, "True"! And of course, the music was probably a major highlight in this movie as well. You got Huey Lewis and the News, Billy Idol, Elvis Costello, the Thompson Twins, and the Smiths blaring out their greatest hits as the movie goes by. If anybody who grew up in the 80's, (I should know, I was born in that decade!) and feels very reminiscent of it, "The Wedding Singer" is the right flick to help you float in a stupor of great 80's memories.