#ADAM SANDLER AND ANDY SAMBERG MOVIE#

First off, there is hardly a likable character in the film, except for Todd, who is just a poor man's version of a neurotic success story. This is yet another Sandler film I like to dub an 'anti-character' study. It's a too little, too late effort, but Donny decides it's time to make nice with Todd, so he stays at their house during the wedding to reconnect with his son, while trying to conceal the fact that he's only there for money. Todd is Andy Samberg, who is stunned to see Donny show up uninvited and quickly tells his wife's family that he is a close friend of his, and this leads to some contrived shouting matches between the two as to how Donny was the worst parent ever. Donny now owes the IRS $43,000, and winds up striking a $50,000 deal with a filthy reality show executive to get him, Todd, and his mother (currently in prison) to do a reunion event on camera. Donny (Sandler) went on to live off a six figure deal to sell his story to a Television show, and carelessly blew all the money, forgetting that he needed to pay taxes on the earnings. Donny names the kid 'Han Solo Berger,' and at eighteen, the kid becomes estranged from his parents, telling people they died in an explosion, changes his name to 'Todd Peterson,' and begins a new life. It results in an unexpected pregnancy, where Miss McGarricle goes to prison, and their baby is left with the teenage Donny, who can barely take care of himself, let alone another child. It starts out on the ever-so bright note of teacher-student molestation, where young nitwit teenager Donny Berger is happily seduced by his teacher, Miss Mary McGarricle in a closet. How come somebody didn't think to put him as one of the side characters? The story can be summed up in fragmented words such as lazy, overwritten, camaraderie, inconsiderate, offensive, demeaning, and mean-spirited, but let's focus on the plot itself. He is Abdoulaye N'gom, who was also in the Sandler produced Grandma's Boy. The only laughs to be found come from, not a main character, but one that shows up at the end of the film (something you should expect from a Happy Madison picture). They are employed with such carelessness and such a disregard for humanity that it becomes utterly revolting. Only Sandler would take such heartless and degrading topics and throw them all into a film where no wit, soul, or morals can be found. Such topics covered in the film are teacher-student molestation, strippers, poor parenting, child abuse, browbeating the less fortunate, incest, and many more. But this is only the icing on the cake of disgust. We laugh not at the situations themselves, but how these characters react to them. It's first fatal flaw is that it erects so many raunchy situations that it completely undermines the characters that are involved in them, which is the whole reason we laugh. That's My Boy is content with being a belligerent vulgarian comedy that it is willing to concoct any setup, any one-liner, or any character as long as it's on par with its irredeemable crude standard. This is a particularly well done rendition of whatever it is we should call Sandler humor.

#ADAM SANDLER AND ANDY SAMBERG MOVIE#

If you can find this kind of humor funny, check this movie out. I was uplifted, energized, and felt really, really good. I left the theater tonight actually smiling a huge silly-ass grin. Lately we seem to have a movie dry spell (in my view).

And for what it's worth, many of the guffaws and whoops were female, as near as I could tell. And the audience I was in (a small town with a large university) laughed and whooped throughout. I can't give a rationale for why this movie delighted me so much. That's what I go to an Adam Sandler movie for. I liked his 'serious' stuff like 'Punch Drunk' and 'Spanglish'- but I love the raunchy, over-the-top comedies. I loved the jokes- this is Sandler's funniest movie in years. Do something else, for goodness sakes! I laughed out loud. Do the rest of us a favor and don't moan and write about how shocked and disgusted you were. If you're not a true Adam Sandler fan, then do yourself a favor and don't go. Clearly, then, this movie isn't for everybody.

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