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While it does represent a new foray into raunch for the normally PG-13 Sandler, That's My Boy finds him repeating himself to diminishing effect - and dragging Andy Samberg down with him.
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The basic joke keeps on giving and the sweetness of the parent-child bonding scenes plays well. Sep 5, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
The basic joke keeps on giving and the sweetness of the parent-child bonding scenes plays well.
Ben Kenigsberg
It points you toward the irresistible conclusion that for all his success Sandler feels only contempt for his audience and tremendous insecurity about his own stature in the comedy universe. Jun 17, 2012 | Full Review…
It points you toward the irresistible conclusion that for all his success Sandler feels only contempt for his audience and tremendous insecurity about his own stature in the comedy universe.
Andrew O'Hehir
Surprisingly mean-spirited from start to finish. Jun 17, 2012 | Full Review…
Surprisingly mean-spirited from start to finish.
Rafer Guzman
Sandler's latest wicked pissah, a paean to let-it-all-hang-out party-guy sloppiness... Jun 17, 2012 | Full Review…
Sandler's latest wicked pissah, a paean to let-it-all-hang-out party-guy sloppiness...
Nick Pinkerton
If someone told you about almost every joke in That's My Boy, you would think they were either a sociopath or a budding serial killer. Jun 16, 2012 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…
If someone told you about almost every joke in That's My Boy, you would think they were either a sociopath or a budding serial killer.
James Rocchi
Vulgar, tasteless, mean-spirited and most offensive of all--not funny. Jun 15, 2012 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…
Vulgar, tasteless, mean-spirited and most offensive of all--not funny.
Richard Roeper
Sandler continues to play the same idiot character he has done since "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore," but the difference is this guy lacks any of the innocent charm that helped make those movies work. Apr 10, 2019 | Rating: F | Full Review…
Sandler continues to play the same idiot character he has done since "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore," but the difference is this guy lacks any of the innocent charm that helped make those movies work.
Micheal Compton
Unless you're an Adam Sandler completist or a Vanilla Ice die-hard, feel free to skip this one. Feb 21, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Unless you're an Adam Sandler completist or a Vanilla Ice die-hard, feel free to skip this one.
Allen Adams
Scientists of the future, if you can make sense of this missive from your ancestors, heed well my warning: DO NOT VISIT THIS PLANET. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
Scientists of the future, if you can make sense of this missive from your ancestors, heed well my warning: DO NOT VISIT THIS PLANET.
Pat Padua
There is nothing creative, amusing, valuable or interesting about Sandler's work. That's My Boy isn't the worst film I have ever seen; it's just one of the saddest and most exhausting. Nov 25, 2013 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
There is nothing creative, amusing, valuable or interesting about Sandler's work. That's My Boy isn't the worst film I have ever seen; it's just one of the saddest and most exhausting.
Richard Haridy
This crude and unfunny comedy is easily the worst movie of 2012. Jun 30, 2013 | Rating: 0.0/5 | Full Review…
This crude and unfunny comedy is easily the worst movie of 2012.
John Hanlon
Yet again Adam Sandler has taken a fairly clever concept for a broad comedy and just detonated it with some of the stupidest, most repetitive gags imaginable. Feb 12, 2013 | Full Review…
Yet again Adam Sandler has taken a fairly clever concept for a broad comedy and just detonated it with some of the stupidest, most repetitive gags imaginable.
Tim Grierson
Not as bad as it could have been... Somewhere in this movie is a tolerable story about an estranged father and son, and around it is the usual Sandler frat boy schtick. It's immature, it's gross, but I've got to admit: I laughed. Nowhere near as bad as Bulletproof, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, or Little Nicky, but can't keep up with Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison either. What you see is what you get: Sandler using the money from his past successes to give younger, funnier actors an opportunity and to keep his usual crew employed. It's forgettable, disposable work, but honestly... were you expecting anything better?
Super Reviewer
two stars!
Yep, another Sandler stinker. I honestly don't know why I keep doing it to myself. It's clear he's never going to make another Wedding Singer.
A mixed bag that I mostly enjoyed thanks to hyperbolic statements of the film's ineptitude. It really wasn't all that bad, and there were some moments that were actually quite good in terms of comedy. Adam Sandler plays a deadbeat dad who fathered a child with his teacher at the age of 14. The opening scenes of the teacher seducing the child are offensive and mishandled, but not because of their content, but because the film doesn't challenge itself later on and tries to convince us the characters were in love. Andy Samberg plays his role too straight, and Sandler is too obnoxious. BUT, there is at least one silver lining in the most unexpected of places, with Vanilla Ice playing himself in a self-deprecating role that has all the best material, including the final punchline for a warped tattoo joke, and a race against the clock in a car that has to turn into a foot race. The film is more misses than hits, but it also just doesn't give a damn.
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