The Top 5 Worst Rated Adam Sandler Movies
Adam Sandler's alleged humour responds with teenage boys, and teenage boys at heart, around the world. His films contain enough toilet humour and slapstick comedy to rival The Three Stooges. Unfortunately, few of them have ever gone down well with the critics.
His latest film, Blended, starring Drew Barrymore follows two single parents as they endure a disastrous blind date. Evidently despising each other, they are forced to meet again following a mix up and somewhere end up on vacation in Africa along with their numerous children. It's a fairly obvious cocktail, disgust will turn to love on the plains of Africa and the two will manage to unite their families. Along the way there'll be a host of silly antics and misunderstandings which will quickly be swept under the carpet whilst the sun sets on a romantic first kiss.
The film appears to have been set in a Disneyland version of 'Africa', where tourists potter around safari on what appear to be golf carts whilst enjoying the plush Vegas style hotel complete with friendly singing locals. Sandler also appears unaware that Africa is the largest Continent on Earth yet continues to refer to his vacation spot simply as 'Africa'.
5. Just Go With It (2011)
Jennifer Aniston joined Adam Sandler in this romantic comedy alongside Nicole Kidman and Brooklyn Decker. You'd think Aniston and Kidman would have known better but apparently not and the film was unsurprisingly panned by critics.
Obviously it was considered fairly offensive by members of the LGBT community and critics definitely picked up on this. Neil Smith (Film4) claimed "It's not just homosexuals who will be outraged by this crass farce." Other critics were equally as scathing, commenting on the quality of the script, acting and so called humour involved. The Financial Times critic claimed the film "is a comedy of masquerade that Shakespeare might have written if he were pea-brained and talentless and had been commissioned to script an Adam Sandler movie."
Some critics appear to have found the film at least amusing but they really were in the minority. Sorry Adam - yet another flop.
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3. Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
A cartoon musical focussing on the Hanukkah season but for adults. It's already a recipe for disaster but Sandler still continued on his quest, making mediocre after mediocre movie. You'd think it could have been made into a sympathetic look at the themes of Hanukkah but no, the film touched upon such subjects as sex and alcoholism. Cinema gold.
Sandler provides the voice and aesthetic basis for his character, Davey, a down and out living in a small US town. Over the eight days of Hanukkah he winds up in trouble and subsequent reforms owing to the generosity of others around him.
You've probably already guessed, but it was not well received. Whilst critics commented on the importance of showing a variety of religious festivities around the season traditionally associated with Christmas, they were underwhelmed by the film. Emma Cochrane (Empire) wrote: "It's about time that all the Christmas movies out there were balanced with a decent Hannukah movie. Sadly, this isn't it." Whilst Peter Bradshaw (Guardian) summed the film up nicely as the "worst animation of the year."
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More: Grown Ups (And Grown Ups 2)
2. Grown Ups & Grown Ups 2 (2010/2013)
They were both pretty bad...
Growns Ups sees Adam Sandler joined by a selection of equally bemusing actors including Kevin James (The King of Queens), Chris Rock (What to Expect When You're Expecting), David Spade (Rules of Engagement), and Rob Schneider (Saturday Night Live). You've basically got all the body types and races in one cast - cue the physical and borderline racist humour. The film follows the reunion of the five childhood friends as they attend the funeral of their high school basketball coach. Renting a lakeside cottage they are forced to consider their lives and attempt to become closer to their spouses and children who are also staying at the cottage with them. Grown Ups 2 follows in much the same vain, centring on the same Connecticut town where the friends grew up, they embark on a day of reminiscing and seemingly settling old scores.
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Both were panned by critics and have fared equally as badly with audiences. The audience ratings on Rotten Tomatoes score Grown Ups 63% enjoyment rating and Grown Ups 2 55%. Grown Ups was criticised by critics the world over with many critics using metaphors referring to physical pain to describe their horror at the film. Xan Brooks (Guardian) claimed "If root canal surgery feels too childish a torment, may we direct your attention to this ghastly celebrity roast in the guise of a boisterous family comedy."
Grown Ups was panned but not nearly as badly as its sequel. Critics somewhat cruelly described Grown Ups 2 as "a movie of fools, by fools, for fools" (Film.com). Whilst Robbie Collins (Telegraph) stated "the word sequel' doesn't fit: it would be like describing three months of agonising spinal surgery as the sequel to falling off a cliff." Ouch!
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Next page: So, which is Adam Sandler's worst, ever, movie?
1. And the winner is. Bulletproof (1996)
Bulletproof, is one of Sandler's earlier films in which he stars alongside Damon Wayons as a small time crook involved in drug running. After getting in too deep with his drug lord boss, Sandler's character, Moses is forced to flee the state only to be apprehended by authorities.
Although the film is not back to back slapstick humour and does include some action scenes, critics were still not remotely impressed. The film scored an 8% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the top critics universally panned the film for lacking a decent plot or even humour. Leonard Klaky (Variety) believed the film's depiction of "criminal activity onscreen in Bulletproof is penny ante compared with the felonious slaughter of story, character and logic exacted by the pic's filmmakers." Whilst Film.Com's critic (Keith Simanton) wrote "The movie has a smirking homophobic bent and never makes you care or believe in the characters as much as in the first fifteen minutes."
We may have uncovered of a pattern here.