Product: 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition) (2004)
Rating: 2.0
A Boys Club Having Fun in Paradise
I thought the premise of "50 First Dates" had potential, but it was ruined before it even began when its tone was set at the start with the assertion of the leading man as Mr. Cool Cavalier Casanova Playboy who fecklessly seduces all of the glamorous tourists. Then Drew Barrymore's character catches his eye and we're supposed to believe that suddenly everything's different. Why, because she's pretty? What were the others, chopped liver? (uh, yes but never mind) Lucy's attractiveness hardly makes her a soul mate, but yet Mr. Don Juan Henry Roth (Sandler) is going to pursue her and wed her, even after he finds out that she's SEVERELY short-term memory-impaired. We're all supposed to buy that idea and find it heart-warming and endearing besides. And I can see by reading other Amazon reviews here that it somehow succeeded! That Adam Sandler's one lucky guy. He can say to his cronies, "Hey let's head over to Hawaii and act like fools and frat boys and film another lowbrow movie with crude humor and make boatloads of clams."I did enjoy some of the scenery, and Drew Barrymore was very cute in her role; hence, I'll give it two stars. But it's too bad that "50 First Dates" couldn't shed the adolescent boy mentality.