RichC2

This movie is literally David Spade doing his best Adam Sandler impression. He even gets the voice right in a few scenes.

Inhumans99

I saw this over the weekend and at first I had to ask myself if Adam Sandler was actually in the film due to Spade doing a pretty good job imitating Sandler's voice.

The film itself is just dumb but a fairly brisk 90 minutes so I was entertained and hey, I kept saying to myself that I know the actress in this film but could not remember her name and it was Bridgit Mendler.

I remember watching Good Luck Charlie and she had a brief music career (she is one of the better Disney machine actresses to try and change things up by becoming a musician) so between her, Spade, Faxon and even the actors they picked to play the teens the film worked for me, just barely, but it worked.

At 90 minutes folks it is hard to hate and an easy way to kill some time if you are not in the mood to binge a show or catch up on network/basic cable stuff that has been building up on your DVR.

andicus

This was just horrible.

I kept wanting to like it, but it didn't happen.

One or two laughs, that was about it.

The_Cube

I could only make it through 20 minutes of this movie... Do NOT waste your time on this. The movie seemed geared towards a 10 year old mindset.

Noonan

That's me but with Spade. Makes it easy for me to avoid this one.

Inhumans99

In response to the posts after mine, fair enough, but I have seen much worse, and plenty of folks who know me probably think I should raise my tv/film watching standards a wee bit but this type of film is perfect if you are futzing around on your phone/tablet because you do not care if you missed something important to the plot, after all this is not 2001: A Space Odyssey we are talking about here folks.

Anyway, I am not going to edit my first post to try and unring the bell that I admitted to enjoying the film. Feel free to wince at how easy it is to entertain me.

Also, this film had a teen bedding a much older woman while another comedy I recently watched had a woman on a zip line giving a crowd a golden shower, both nasty scenes that did not make for a better film but the big difference is one film was praised for helping inject new life into comedies that have struggled at the box office and the other is rightly panned as being a pointless addition to the cannon of film comedies.

I suspect Netflix is happy with the internal metrics they have on this film, as they seem pretty happy with their pact with Adam Sandler's company to provide content.

TomOpus

His new special, 100% Fresh, was actually pretty good. If you like his stand-up, you'll like this more than his movies. He does get, surprisingly, melancholy towards the end. But it's a good melancholy.

RichC2

Only 92% Fresh on RT, false advertising!!

TomOpus

Troy Stiffler

I know this thread doesn’t get much attention.

His new one was great. Clever concept of cutting around a lot. Sandler put on a great show. Not much else to say.

thematahara

Yeah his special was great.

Was a good reminder of how funny he can be, gave me flashbacks of listening to his albums when I was younger.

Wish he would do more like this than his easy movie cash-ins. Seems that every few years he does something where he actually tries and im always a fan of those.

dex14

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majorjoe23

whotony

Orbi-Wan Techno

Decker

Okay, the knife joke was pretty funny.

I hate myself for saying this but despite my better judgement I really liked Just Go With It and am totally up for more of those two together.

TomOpus

Murder Mystery dropped. I thought I'd check it out since it's relatively short. It's pretty much what you would expect. Light and breezy. Predicable. Couple giggles. Location shooting was nice.

LorenzoL

This. The location shots were the highlight as the film is predictable but I laughed a few times. Aniston needs to stop with either the Botox or plastic surgery as her face seems off.

DRG

Murder Mystery reminded me a bit of Date Night and Game Night with its "married couple gets into dangerous hijacks" plotline, although it wasn't as funny as either of those movies. I feel like the humor played it too safe, but it was okay enough for a free watch on Netflix.

Troy Stiffler

JeffTheAlpaca

I have his movies in my Netflix que and will check them out sometime.

d2cheer

Murder Mystery has OVER 30 million views since it dropped. Biggest debut in Netflix history. Yeah this isn't ending anytime soon.

Koby

Use to be a big Sandler fan, but I haven't enjoyed anything he's put out in years.

thematahara

All I can say is that this was pretty watchable, and a decent way to spend a Monday night.

Save for when he is doing some weird character like Little Nicky or the Waterboy, I am always down to watch Sandler.

movieguru

I watched it the other night. It was ok for some mindless movie to pass the time, but not really that funny. It came off as really cheesy and it felt like a live action take on the board game Clue.