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- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
Summary The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.
Directed By: Steven Brill
Written By: Kevin Barnett, Chris Pappas
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
- 2016
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 48 m
The Do-Over
22
4.6
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Summary The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.
Directed By: Steven Brill
Written By: Kevin Barnett, Chris Pappas
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
22
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
64% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
22
9% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
27% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
64% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
The plot threads can be a little hard to follow, especially since most of them revolve around two unseen characters who are dead before the story even begins, but Sandler and Spade’s partnership gives the whole enterprise enough emotional grounding to make up for it.
Despite an idiocy metastasized into the marrow of its script impervious to any radiation, there is, as with many of Sandler’s productions, at least something of an upbeat quality to its reprehensibility.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 108 User Ratings
4.6
39% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
19% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
43% Negative
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 108 User Ratings
4.6
39% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
19% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
43% Negative
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
Great movie! Good story and hilarious all the way to the end! In the couple of weeks it has been out, I have already seen it 10 times. Once by myself and each other time with friends or family. Everyone who I have seen this movie with, enjoyed it all the way through!
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Best movie from Adam Sandler in a while. Good buddy comedy and decent action flick. Check it out if you have a Netflix sub, you are already paying for it anyway. The finale is excellent and without giving up too much there is an awesome fight between a wife and a widower.
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Would The Do-Over be a spectacular triumph if it’s two stars had played the material relatively straight? Probably not. But the terrible jokes wouldn’t have got in the way of all that plot.
It’s just as predictably mind-numbing and tedious as any other comedy Sandler has attached his name to post-“Funny People.”
The Do-Over is atrocious, but it's atrocious in different ways than any of Adam Sandler's previous comedies.
Almost every female character is there to be screwed or to screw the guys over. Or both. This is how Sandler’s brand has always portrayed their female characters, but it’s just increasingly depressing.
There are comedies that make you double over in laughter, and there are comedies that are eerily unfunny to the point where you start thinking about a class-action suit.
It goes without saying that Adam Sandler is guilty of putting out some low quality movies in the recent years, but this is not one of them. It is becoming painfully obvious that hating Adam Sandler is a trend that needs to stop. I feel that the majority of these negative reviewers went into watching the movie wanting it to be terrible and it just wasn't. This movie does not deserve the low rating people are giving it, and it's detracting people from seeing a good movie. Reviewers also need to stop cutting comedies into a million pieces like they're meant to be some elaborate piece of art. It's a comedy!!
Onto the movie:
A friend and I decided to watch a movie out of boredom and chose The Do-Over on Netflix, mainly because it was the first option and not because we're Adam Sandler fans. Within a few minutes of the movie starting, we were glad to have put it on. The movie was refreshing and outside of Adam Sandler's norm. We found it well written, the story line was interesting, and it made us laugh many times.
For the movie type it was, it did what it was supposed to and we found it very entertaining. It is difficult for me to sit through an entire movie, but not with this one. In fact, I showed it to my fiance later that day (who loved the movie as well) and sat through it again no problem. The first thing my friend did after the movie ended was call his wife and told her to watch it, and she also thought it was great.
This Adam Sandler hate needs to stop fueling bad reviews. This is a good movie and if you don't think so, you shouldn't be reviewing movies. Every person I know who has watched it thinks it's great and immediately recommends their friends/family to watch it.
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Two down-on-their-luck guys (Adam Sandler, David Spade) fake their own deaths and start over with new identities, only to find the people they're pretending to be are in even deeper trouble.
Also playing, Paula Patton, Kathryn Hahn, Nick Swardson, Luis Guzmán, Michael Chiklis, Torsten Voges, Stan Ellsworth and the others.
A curiously unusual comedy for Sandler, but not in a bad way like „Sandy Wexler“. It has its fair share of dirty jokes but relies even more on unexpected turns, absurdist and black humor, and… action. Oh yeah, if there ever was Sandler action movie, this is it.
Watching the man in this new mode is kind of exciting. He’s not a born action star but he’s not actually that bad either. At least it makes his character more intriguing than usual. He feels unpredictable – you can’t figure out whether he is more of a bad or good guy here.
Spade is a great sidekick as always, which is probably why most of his roles happen in Sandler’s movies these days. But he feels so bland by himself that it’s difficult to imagine him starring anywhere again.
Some of Sandler’s regulars are here – Swardson, Guzmán, Spade – but the more colorful smaller appearances belong to Stan Ellsworth as Dakota and Torsten Voges as the Gymnast.
The screenplay is weak as usual, more like a loosely tied bunch of sketches, but this is one of those times where it more or less works for the result’s favor.
It helps to give „The Do-Over“ this rare tone where you can’t predict where the story’s heading more of the time. It’s rare for Sandler’s comedy at least. If there were only less twists in the final third, they get a bit exhausing…
All in all, I enjoyed it more than many recent Sandler comedies, at least ones from this decade. Looking bad, now it’s kind of surprising that he has never tried to do action before. The result isn surprisingly watchable. Not that I would like to see him do this kind of stuff all the time.
„To-Do List“ is the second out of Sandler’s four-movie deal with Netflix, 2015’s „The Ridiculous 6“ being the first and this year's „Sandy Wexler“ being the third. Let's wait for 2018's "The Week Of" now...
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Well here we go again with yet another Sandler/Netflix farce! This one's as cringe-worthy as those familiar with Sandler would likely expect! Him and Spade have a decent on-screen chemistry and they get to bro it out together again in this, but other than that, this was what I would consider to be a complete waste of their time! Then again, do really have anything else better to do at this point? (other than Grown Ups 3 God forbid!) Overall, it's simply another painful reminder of what to expect from every new Sandler film! I will admit that it was slightly entertaining and didn't quite reach the level of idiocy that Sandler's previous Netflix film The Ridiculous 6 did, which is why I'm giving this a generous 3!
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