it almost makes you view the '80s positively

Rating: 8/10 (8 November 2005)

Like most Adam Sandler movies, "The Wedding Singer" is an excuse for him to be silly. In this case, he plays 1980s wedding singer Robbie Hart, who gets jilted at his own wedding. Ever the cool dude, he hooks up with waitress Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore), who's about to get married to the world's most undesirable person. But with a flair for popular culture, Robbie has a few of his own tricks planned.
If nothing else, this movie is a look back on the era of Rubik's cubes. Having not grown up in that era, I can't verify the movie's accuracy (and wasn't the '80s really the era of Gordon Gekko?), but we can't dwell on that. The point is to revel in Adam Sandler's crazy gags. And boy does he have some!