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Jun 16, 201280The results are soul-corrodingly funny.
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67Never underestimate the importance of guy-on-guy sentimentality in the Adam Sandler universe. It's his way of making his fans feel as if he's high-fiving them, or maybe giving them a group hug. But Sandler, bottom line, is too good at playing louts like Donny to spend this much energy getting us to like them.
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63That's My Boy is pretty raunchy, and by "pretty," I mean "amazingly," as in Howard Stern- or Seth MacFarlane-style gags.
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60Not nearly as terrible as burped-out Sandler disasters of recent years, there's enough funny stuff here to remind us of his talent. Still, it's not for everyone.
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60Depending on your POV, it's either the ne plus ultra of Hollywood calculation or a comedy simply intent on pushing its crassness to the point of surrealism.
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Jun 16, 201250Despite their assorted vulgarities and lack of polish, the films of Adam Sandler are remarkably consistent in their own particular way. This one's no different.
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50I did laugh. The movie is so disgusting it is worthy of the Farrelly brothers.
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Jun 14, 201250With enough wedding-related shenanigans to pull in the date crowd, the guffaw-to-gag ratio remains relatively respectable, though there's nothing here that hasn't been attempted many times over.
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Jun 14, 201250No matter how much good-hearted licentiousness follows in the rest of the movie, the opening sequence brings a unshakable sourness to the whole affair.
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Aug 30, 201240Adam Sandler stumbles into his own movie about 10 minutes into That's My Boy, and that's where the fun ends.
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40If you expect That's My Boy to be the Bad Dad equivalent of Bad Santa, you'll be sorely disappointed. Sandler can't quite adopt that same cynical edge, instead favoring corny and sentimental resolutions to untenable predicaments.
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Jun 14, 201240That's My Boy is a pretty wretched movie if you want to activate your brain cells, but its busily plotted second half approaches involving.
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Jun 14, 201240That's My Boy has the same freewheeling appeal and potty-mouthed, go-for-broke mania of Sandler's earlier comedies. But there's a new undercurrent of energy that's likely the consequence of Sandler separating from his usual collaborators.
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38In matters of personal taste, there is no right or wrong, so if erasing brain cells is your idea of a good time, That's My Boy could be your cup of turpentine.
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Jun 14, 201238Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh.
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38That's My Boy lazily exists in a fantasyland of Adam Sandler's perpetual adolescence, even as it generates some moderate comic friction from Sandler and Andy Samberg's testy back-and-forth.
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30This is one of those movies you feel stupider just for having sat through. I think I'm already worse at math.
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30All in all, it could have been worse. Puerile, crotch-fixated and very occasionally, inanely funny, Adam Sandler's raunchiest star vehicle in years has a small saving grace in Andy Samberg's performance.
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25That's My Boy more than lives up to its R-rating - including one gross-out gag repulsive enough to make you put down your popcorn.
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25Will be construed by the faithful as an embarrassment of riches and by the rest of us as cruel and unusual punishment.
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25It's monumentally coarse and vulgar, aimed at the mentality of a 14-year-old locked inside his father's liquor cabinet, and nothing about it is funny, least of all Adam Sandler.
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25That's My Boy is puerile, mean-spirited and charmless.
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20Nobody has an excuse for being surprised by how low Sandler and company stoop in That's My Boy.
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20As awful as most of That's My Boy is, it's sort of mesmerizing to see how Sandler - in a script credited to David Caspe - keeps his touchstones in place.
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16The film is such a barren comic wasteland of scatology and misogyny that Vanilla Ice steals the film with a good-natured, self-deprecating portrayal of himself as Sandler's sleazy party buddy.
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12That's My Boy is radical only in its extreme laziness.
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0Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy.