This light yet earnest drama starring Adam Sandler deals openly with one of the most insidious elements in popular filmmaking -- the male screenwriter's relationship with his own father.
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06/02/08
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Big Daddy (1999)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:7
Rotten:18
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: It is sloppily put together and not as funny as Sandler's other movies.
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Sandler stars as Sonny Koufax, a perpetual adolescent whose girlfriend gives him the ultimatum of taking some responsibility into his life or saying goodbye to her. Magically, the child of his... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider
Director: Dennis Dugan
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Reviews for Big Daddy
Top CriticFunny-sweet, understand, not bleccchh sweet.
07/21/05
Top CriticWorst of all is the way Sandler wants to have it both ways: to muck around in gross-out humor one minute and then turn schmaltzy the next minute with some fraudulent business about how much he loves the kid.
06/18/02
Top CriticHow's this for a novel complaint: Big Daddy just isn't stupid enough.
03/19/02
Top CriticThere's no doubt Sandler is talented, but if he persists in believing that, like Elvis, his presence alone covers a multitude of omissions and inconsistencies, he will squander his gift and make a series of forgettable films in the process.
02/14/01
Top CriticBig Daddy is surprisingly sentimental and consistently amusing.
01/01/00
Top CriticDismal. Lame. Not funny.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe film offers its share of big laughs, but the serious side is sunk by mawkishness and sentimentality.
01/01/00
Top CriticA flimsy sentimental comedy with more product plugs and fewer laughs than might have been hoped for.
01/01/00
Top CriticJoey Lauren Adams smiles so damn much. It's like she's had this smile surgically sculpted onto her face, like Jack Nicholson's Joker in Batman.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's got the same kind of warmth as The Wedding Singer.
01/01/00
Top CriticBig Daddy is all about Sonny's maturation, but there's nothing new or unexpected about Sandler's latest.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe actors bring an appealing energy to their simplistic roles, enough so to wring laughs from the most Sandler-resistant audience members.
01/01/00
Top CriticSandler has remarkably little funny to do or say in Big Daddy!
01/01/00
Top CriticThe film's jokes, stretched out over 90 minutes, aren't that funny.
01/01/00
Top CriticThere are tearful moments of orphan anxiety, with swelling score peaks you'd swear belong to the Julia Roberts movie playing next door.
01/01/00
Top CriticBig Daddy doesn't generate a lot of big laughs. It has a throwaway sweetness, though.
01/01/00
Top CriticAdam Sandler's new comedy is being touted as a step forward for him, which I find funnier than anything in the movie.
01/01/00
Top CriticResult is uneven; the story’s more serious intentions often jar with the goofy sideshow.
01/01/00
Top CriticBig Daddy is easily the laziest, most slapdash and altogether crummy picture Sandler's done to date.
01/01/00
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