Product: 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition) (2004)
Rating: 3.0
50 First Dates Review
It's charmingly romantic and funny. And, like so many of Sandler's lowest-common-denominator comedies, it's suffused with slapstick and gross-out gags. The chuckles here are few and far between. The movie's sole selling point turns out to be its sweetness. Director Peter Segal tries to find humor in the situation, but he misses more often than he hits. It's like trying to make a comedy about Alzheimer's. The occasional bouts of scatology and crude sexual humor function, if you'll permit the oxymoron, as vulgar grace notes, decorating a surprisingly graceful and, in the end, impressively daring romantic comedy. (...)