Sandler's latest film isn't much of step up from those previous encounters, but it retains all of their good-natured affability.
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Big Daddy (1999)
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Reviews Counted:91
Fresh:36
Rotten:55
Average Rating:4.9/10
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
Dismal. Lame. Not funny.
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Top CriticA sweet, sentimental and broadly entertaining salute to fathers and sons.
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If anything, the movie is funny, plain and simple, and due to the several noted performances that are far above this slight material, I found I was enjoying Big Daddy quite a lot.
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Big Daddy is crude and obvious, sloppy and mawkish, contrived and clumsily manipulative, and yet it still works.
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Another dumb movie by Adam Sandler.
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The laughs are few and far between and the movie never succeeds in developing any sort of dramatic tension. I expected better from Sandler, even though I've seen far worse from him.
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Parents teach their children to stay away from crass morons like Sonny Koufax.
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A triumph of personality over performance and content.
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Adam Sandler's latest comedy is sure to be a big, sentimental hit with his extensive fan club but not so prized by more mature film lovers.
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It's impossible to produce anything worthwhile from this screenplay, which has ugly, twisted morals.
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The underwritten script fails to develop its premise adequately, shifts gears mechanically and comes too easily to a convenient finale.
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The film offers its share of big laughs, but the serious side is sunk by mawkishness and sentimentality.
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Top CriticA flimsy sentimental comedy with more product plugs and fewer laughs than might have been hoped for.
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Top CriticAudiences don't go to a Sandler movie expecting realism or tricky plotting, they go for laughs, and there are at least a few.
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Joey 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.
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Lightweight and fluffy stuff, the film has some fun moments and a few big laughs.
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Funny and cute!
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The big surprise in Big Daddy is the satisfying balance of warm-and-fuzzy sentiment and laugh-out-loud silliness.
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