Product: 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition) (2004)
Rating: 2.0
One to Forget in the Morning After
After "The Wedding Singer", Sandler and Barrymore reunite on screen again to deliver this somewhat promising but ultimately average romantic comedy. Remember Guy Pearce`s character in "Memento"? Well, in "50 First Dates" Drew Barrymore plays Lucy, a girl that loses her recent memory each morning, virtually living the same routine endlessly. Adam Sandler`s character falls in love with her and dares to conquer her attention everyday. Cute, and very touching. Anyway, this movie ends up being too repetitive, slow, empty and especially unfunny, mixing drama and comedy yet failing to suceed at both. The directing is nothing special either, and the performances and characters are flat. Fortunately, the flick still presents some entertainment value, so it`s not a complete disaster. But there are much better movies around (Bernardo Bertolucci`s "The Dreamers" or Michel Gondry`s "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", to name a few).Watchable and equally forgettable.