Product: 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition) (2004)
Rating: 3.0
Not as bad as I thought it would be...
Adam Sandler movies are hit and miss, though lately I've been much more impressed with his choices! I really enjoyed Punch Drunk Love and since I loved the Wedding Singer, I decided to give 50 First Dates a shot. It was better than I was expecting after reading so many horrible reviews on Rotton Tomatoes, but not nearly as good as some of his other movies.The basic storyline is Adam Sandler plays Henry Roth, a vet for marine animals in Hawaii who tends to woo tourists so that he never has to settle down. He dreams of taking his boat to Alaska to study walruses and one day while taking his boat for a 'test drive' it breaks down and he gets stuck on another part of the island waiting for someone to come tow it. He stops in a diner where he meets Lucy (Drew Barrymore). He really likes her and they make plans to meet again the next day. The next day she has no clue who he is, and that's when he finds out that she suffered brain damage in an accident a year before and has no short term memory. Every night when she goes to sleep, it erases everything that happened that day. Every morning she wakes up thinking it's the exact same day.I love the chemistry beween Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, the two of them are fun to watch together. Once they met and started romancing, the movie got much better. The scenes that were unbearably bad were some with the supporting actors, especially the absolutely terrible character, Alexa I think was her name, that was Henry's assistant at work (the horrible mannish looking woman with braids). The scenes with her were just awful and I would probably have given this movie another star if not for that.A couple side characters that were really funny were Rob Schneider as Ula, who was funny - though his five kids really stole the show. Also, Sean Astin (Samwise in Lord of the Rings) had a part as Lucy's steroid-using brother with a lisp and he was pretty funny as well. Dan Aykroyd played Lucy's doctor and though his part was small, he had some of the funniest lines in the movie!Overall, I thought it was a funny movie. I especially like the ending, since I was expecting a cop-out Hollywood ending and didn't get it. ;) Despite some really bad scenes in the beginning, the movie turns around and becomes a heart-warming love story between Henry and Lucy which I thoroughly enjoyed. I do recommend seeing it, but I definitely think the Wedding Singer is by far a superior movie with the same lead actors. :)