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Deja Vu
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Aug 31, 2006
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25 people found this review helpful
50 First Dates is a romantic comedy that will make you both laugh and cry. This is the first movie Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler have acted in together in six years, since their hit, The Wedding Singer. This movie is definitely in the running to be Adam Sandler's best movie yet. Roger Ebert compares it to Groundhog Day in his review.
50 First Dates takes place in Hawaii, where Sandler's character Henry Roth is known to be a playboy with women tourists. This way there is no commitment and no need to settle down. That is, until Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore) came along. The only problem is, that due to an accident a year earlier, she has no short-term memory. She can remember everything that happened up to the accident, but everyday after that is the same day to her. When she goes to bed at night, the day starts over. Henry has to find creative ways to get Lucy to fall in love with him all over again every day. Will he continue to put his life on hold, to refresh Lucy's memory everyday, or will he finally give up and move on with his life?
Unlike most movies with repeat co-stars, 50 First Dates is in no way similar to The Wedding Singer. Barrymore and Sandler portray two very different characters. The Wedding Singer takes place in 1985, portraying Sandler as Robbie Hart, a wedding singer who is stood up at his own wedding by his fiancée Linda. Barrymore plays Julia Sullivan who realizes she's engaged to the wrong man. Robbie and Julia then find each other. In 50 First Dates, the movie is very up-to-date with Sandler playing a very convincing role of a soft-hearted veterinarian specializing in the care of walruses, who has always dreamed of studying in Alaska. Will he give up this dream for a woman who won't even remember him tomorrow? Barrymore's character was an elementary art teacher before the accident, and afterwards, teaches art to other patients with memory loss due to head injuries.
This is a very different kind of role for Sandler. In 50 First Dates, he plays a soft-hearted man who is a more natural-kind of funny rather than his usual, unusual sort of funny. Instead of being over-the-top kind to everyone, such as he was in Mr. Deeds, or a grown man going through elementary school in Billy Madison, Sandler is playing a man in a real situation, who is extremely supportive. The comical value is in Henry going out of his way to make Lucy fall in love with him again.
There are a few cameos with well-known Dan Akroyd (Blues Brothers), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings), and Rob Schneider (The Hot Chick). Akroyd plays Lucy's physician. Astin is her steroid-popping, muscle building, brother. Schneider is Henry's best friend, Ula, who never says the right thing in any situation.
50 First Dates is hilarious and you never know what to expect from one moment to the next. This is a completely entertaining movie, if you watch it for educational purposes, you will leave the theater believing "a nympho is the state flower of Iowa." This movie will keep people talking for months! |
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