Adam Sandler has made a name for himself in Hollywood by frequently starring in and producing films that are just plain awful. Of the 21 films he has starred in/produced/written in the last ten years, only 3 have fresh ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, the best being 2002's Punch Drunk Love (79%) and the worst being last year's Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star (0%). HIs latest film That's My Boy is currently sitting at a lowly 24%, but to give you some of the lines from positive reviews would be boring. You know this movie is horrible, you don't need critics explaining to you why. But what about that 24% minority why did they give this movie positive reviews? Here are some of the best excerpts from their reviews.
The funniest movie Adam Sandler has made since 50 First Dates. -Willie Waffle
Of course, it’s no
Punch Drunk Love, but you gotta pay the bills somehow. I get it. Grae Drake,
Movies.com
I wouldn’t dare recommend “That’s My Boy” to the average filmgoer. It’s reserved for Sandler fans who’ve come to expect a certain velocity of stupidity from their doofus king. -
Blu-Ray.com
Sandler, make no mistake, doesn’t phone it in. He delivers
every single line with the unspeakably annoying rasp of a rusty nail scraping on your brainpan. -Owen Gleiberman,
EW.
If Sandler changed his name to Nicole Holofcener, you’d be reading kinder reviews. -
TimeOutChicago.
[I'm] the kind who needs Adam Sandler to keep making deplorable garbage like this. I will watch it and I will enjoy myself and I will have no excuse for it and I will remain un-sorry.
The film gleefully celebrates statutory rape. That might be a deal-breaker for you, comedically speaking. It also celebrates child neglect, drunken violence, three-ways with Grandma and Vanilla Ice (co-starring as himself), shooting people at point blank range with shotguns and pouring orange juice up the nose of a 300-lb. stripper who is simultaneously hanging upside down on the pole while eating a plate of bacon and eggs. -Dave White,
Movies.com
Here is the full list of nominees for the 2012 Golden Raspberry Awards, celebrating the worst in film of the past year. Adam Sandler makes his usual appearance, but Twilight: Brealing Dawn Part 2 has been nominated in every single category this year, and I expect the film to win all of them. The Razzies used to be a carefully thought out anti-Oscars, but lately they seem to be more interested in pulling stunts that get them media coverage, like last year when Adam Sandler won Worst Actor and Worst Actress for his dual performances in Jack and Jill. Twilight winning every award is just too historic of a thing to not have happen.
