This is everything bad about films.

Rating: 1/10 (5 November 2001)

This is without doubt one of the worst films ever made.
Possible spoilers throughout.
First of all though, I loved the 80's & the music & still listen to it today.
However, oh where do I start? Probably with locking up whoever decided 2 people falling in love should be the basis for a film. Casablanca & Gone With the Wind were doing it 60 years ago. Every way it can happen has now been done to death.
Also flogged to death is the idea of finding amusement in a previous era or decade. The 80's mocked the 60's, 90's did the 70's. No doubt in 20 years time when we say "Remember November 2001"? Will everyone reply "ha ha ha November 2001 - stop it, you're too funny."? I hope not. I grew up in the 1980's. Trust me people weren't getting on buses or walking around shops in hysterics at everyone.
Just like American Pie, to describe this as a 'comedy' must contravene every trade description law in the book. Please tell me one scene in this that was amusing? With the exception of Sandler mocking table 9 near the start, nothing remotely raise a laugh. I had the misfortune to watch this film on a coach & witnessed other passengers in hysterics at a) a man doing nothing but impersonating Boy George & 2) Sandler singing "Love Stinks."
Questions. On Stars in their Eyes (a UK talent show where members of the public compete by replicating a famous singer) Do the audience sit their laughing as someone takes off Boy George, Adam Ant or any other 80's singer. No.
If I got up in a pub & started singing 'Love Stinks' would that be funny? No. It would be annoying & I'd be thrown out (probably with a bar stool wrapped around me.
The reason in both cases are they are not funny because it's not a second rate American comic doing it.
I genuinely sat there after 20 minutes & thought 'something else must happen. Please don't make the plot as banal as these 2 getting it on. I like Drew Barrymore too. I've never seen Sandler in anything else, but would be more than willing to watch another one. Hopefully it won't be as bad as this.
Another idea older than the hills. Someone drunk ruining a best man speech. Please.
I would happily buy the CD of this if I saw it (or if it exists) as I love the music. So what I don't want is to constantly hear the first 20 seconds of one good song after another only for it to cut out just at the start of the chorus. Someone should issue a restraining order that songs stay 500 yards away from films at all times, if this is what happens.
I've come to the conclusion that apart from 1)Naked Gun/Airplane type films 2)The Simpsons & 3)Will Smith, Americans are incapable of exporting anything funny outside of their own country.
Leave comedies with a romantic plot to the writers of Four Weddings & a Funeral & Notting Hill as they show you how it should be done and are in a different league to this crap. This films only gets a 1/10 as their isn't a '0' on the scale.
By all means rent this film out. But when you do, watch the first 5 minutes, go away, and come back for the last 5 minutes. You'll follow everything that has gone on.