50 First Dates (2004)

All Critics (178) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (80) | Rotten (100) | DVD (34)

Quite what age group this soft-centered entertainment is aimed at is hard to divine.

January 26, 2006 Full Review

Wally Hammond

Time Out

Top Critic

Stupid, coarse and abysmally unfunny.

February 26, 2004 Full Review | Comments (4)

Rex Reed

New York Observer

Top Critic

Ends up making you pine for Lucy's gift of forgetting.

February 18, 2004 Full Review

Laura Sinagra

Village Voice

Top Critic

This movie paints itself into a corner from which it cannot emerge without becoming an utter disaster as far as I'm concerned.

February 17, 2004 Full Review | Comments (2)

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore shine in this sweet, flirty comedy about a man who falls for a woman with short-term memory loss.

February 14, 2004 Full Review

Stephanie Zacharek

Salon.com

Top Critic

A chick flick for guys, with a pH balance in perfect equilibrium between the crass and the sweet.

February 13, 2004

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

Silly, crude humor and a dash of romance.

May 25, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

...has an unexpected emotional undertow and enough hard-won laughs to make it succeed.

August 26, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Within the witlessness and crudeness is a touching (or mawkish, depending on your perspective) romantic comedy trying to get out.

May 29, 2008 Full Review

Daniel Etherington

Film4

The moments that Sandler and Barrymore can steal together are golden.

July 23, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

Though the set-up in this light romantic comedy is a bit strained, once you get into the main interaction with the two stars you get both the laughs and the emotion that you hope for in a film like this.

September 24, 2006 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

Gossamer thin, but lots of fun nevertheless.

April 1, 2006 Full Review

Simon Braund

Empire Magazine

The sweet formula of this movie wouldn't and shouldn't really endeavor too hard to sustain the logistical scrutiny of its premise.

November 7, 2005 Full Review

Brent Simon

Now Playing Magazine

I had hard time believing that someone as shallow as Henry would all of the sudden drop everything in his life for this girl, but the film is surprisingly winning.

June 17, 2005 Full Review

Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony

This dopey film has virtually nothing going for it but its genial stars.

May 3, 2005 Full Review

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

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December 31, 2004 Full Review | Comments (2)

Staci Layne Wilson

StaciWilson.com

• 1. Ula: Sharks are like dogs: they only bite when you touch their private parts.
  – Submitted by David E (9 months ago)
• 1. Marlin Whitmore: Stop it! You're gonna make me throw up on the cake.
  – Submitted by David E (9 months ago)
• 1. Henry Roth: O.K, so this is my 23rd time, and this is your 1st, which averages out as our 12th time. Now, I've heard that on the 12th date, I am entitled to unlimited boob access.
  – Submitted by Augusta M (9 months ago)
• 1. 10 Second Tom: Hi, I'm Tom!
  – Submitted by Wipeout M (11 months ago)
• 1. Ula: You kids suck; you're good at everything!
  – Submitted by Wipeout M (11 months ago)
• 1. Lucy Whitmore: [last tines] [talking to her daughter as she sees her father] Grandpa's here!
  2. Lucy Whitmore: [waves to her father] Hey, Dad.
  – Submitted by Alyssa B (18 months ago)

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