Adam Sandler & Rob Schneider’s 20 Movies Together, Ranked

Summary

  • Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider have worked together on movies since the start of their careers.
  • Rob Schneider often plays a supporting role in Sandler’s films, even if it’s just a momentary cameo
  • Sandler’s unique blend of humor and relatable characters have made him a household name in the world of comedy, but the critics don’t always click with his humor.

Adam Sandler and Rob Schneider’s friendship has seen them work on plenty of movies together, with decidedly mixed results. Like Kevin James and David Spade, Schneider has appeared in many of Sandler’s biggest movies. Sandler has returned the favor by popping up in several movies led by Schneider over the years. No matter the movie, the two friends always seem to be able to find a role for one another.

Sandler and Schneider’s style of comedy isn’t for everyone, and even some of their most popular movies have been panned by critics. However, some of Adam Sandler’s best movies are considered comedy classics, and he has developed a devoted following over the years. Sandler and Schneider have appeared in more than their fair share of misfires, but they also have a few huge hits together.

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20 Jack & Jill (2011)

Sandler plays a pair of twins who struggle to get along

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Director Dennis Dugan Release Date November 11, 2011 Cast Adam Sandler , Al Pacino , Katie Holmes , Eugenio Derbez , Tim Meadows , Santiago Segura , Nick Swardson

When people say they hate Adam Sandler’s style of comedy, they are usually thinking about movies like Jack & Jill, which even failed to win over some of his biggest fans. Sandler plays both lead roles in this criminally unfunny comedy. The biggest surprise amid a slog of lame physical humor is that Al Pacino somehow agreed to lend his talents to one of the worst movies of all time.

When people say they hate Adam Sandler’s style of comedy, they are usually thinking about movies like
Jack & Jill.

The most frustrating aspect of Jack & Jill, other than the fact that it has wasted the time of many good people, is that it has the makings of a much better movie. Classic comedies such as Dr. Strangelove and Kind Hearts and Coronets have benefited from having one actor in multiple roles, and Jack & Jill‘s playful approach to gender stereotypes is a comedic trick older than Shakespeare. Jack & Jill has none of the intelligence needed to deliver on this potential.

19 The Animal (2001)

Schneider stars as a man with the characteristics of several animals

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The Animal stars Rob Schneider as a wannabe police officer who undergoes a radical surgery which gives him the organs, and the traits, of several animals. Few movies have captured the ethos of a Rob Schneider movie as succinctly as this premise. It is utterly nonsensical and totally devoid of any emotional stakes, but it presents the opportunity for a lot of goofy comedy, which Scheider revels in.

Adam Sandler has a cameo as a townie, which is an in-joke for fans who are familiar with Rob Schneider’s similar character from
The Waterboy
and
Little Nicky.

The Animal trades in mediocre slapstick. Schneider’s character is tossed over a cliff, kicked by a goat and beaten up by an elderly woman. Unfortunately, the humor stays at the surface level. The one joke that a man acts like a dog, cat or dolphin is repeated endlessly, with rapidly diminishing returns. Adam Sandler has a cameo as a townie, which is an in-joke for fans who are familiar with Rob Schneider’s similar character from The Waterboy and Little Nicky.

18 The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

Sandler and Schneider attempt to parody the Western genre

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Director Frank Coraci Release Date December 11, 2015 Cast Adam Sandler , Terry Crews , Jorge Garcia , Taylor Lautner , Rob Schneider , Luke Wilson

In the same year that Quentin Tarantino released The Hateful Eight, Adam Sandler had his own take on the Western classic The Magnificent Seven. The Ridiculous 6 is arguably the worst of Adam Sandler’s Netflix original movies. It takes many of the hallmarks of his style of humor and transplants them lazily into a Western setting. After being eviscerated by critics, The Ridiculous 6 entered the club of movies with a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

After being eviscerated by critics,
The Ridiculous 6
entered the club of movies with a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Ridiculous 6 boasts a higher production value than many of Sandler’s lowbrow comedies, and this gives it a sense of class that doesn’t suit the rest of the movie. Interestingly, it could have been more successful if it hadn’t been given the appearance of a genuinely viable Western, although the production value has little to do with the dreary and often needlessly insensitive humor.

17 Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

An animated Hannukah comedy to rival the Christmas classics

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Director Seth Kearsley Release Date November 27, 2002 Cast Adam Sandler , Jackie Sandler , Austin Stout , Kevin Nealon , Rob Schneider , Norm Crosby

Eight Crazy Nights is Adam Sandler’s attempt to make an animated Hannukah movie to rival the abundance of Christmas options. In this way, it’s a noble attempt to do something different. Unfortunately, the execution means that Eight Crazy Nights is barely distinguishable from other Sandler comedies. Its animation is a rare change of pace, but it barely masks the crude humor that has become Sandler’s trademark.

Eight Crazy Nights
could have been an interesting subversive holiday comedy, but it never makes the most out of its setting or its animation.

Rob Schneider plays a Chinese waiter with as much subtlety as any of his other racial caricatures. His character sums up the style of comedy on display in Eight Crazy Nights. Sandler’s vision of the holiday season is grim and stressful. This could be enough to make Eight Crazy Nights stand out as a subversive holiday comedy, but it never makes the most out of its setting or its animation.

16 Little Nicky (2000)

Rob Schneider appears as the same character from The Waterboy

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Director Steven Brill Release Date November 10, 2000 Cast Adam Sandler , Patricia Arquette , Harvey Keitel , Rhys Ifans , Rodney Dangerfield , Reese Witherspoon

Little Nicky is standard Sandler fare, with the comedian pushing a quirky premise to its comedic limits with plenty of slapstick, insult comedy and a touch of romance. What makes Little Nicky so much worse than Mr. Deeds or Happy Gilmore, for example, is just how obnoxious the lead character is. Sandler can be great as an everyman, or as a lovable loser with a deep reservoir of rage. Nicky is a grating creep with a voice and general presence that make him hard to spend time with.

What makes
Little Nicky
so much worse than
Mr. Deeds
or
Happy Gilmore,
for example, is just how obnoxious the lead character is.

Rob Schneider reprises his role from The Waterboy, and he isn’t the only character from another Adam Sandler movie who pops up in Little Nicky. Carl Weathers’ character from Happy Gilmore, Chubbs Peterson, is seen in the afterlife. Little Nicky stops just short of establishing an MCU-style Sandlerverse, but it has some fun callbacks for Sandler’s fans. Quentin Tarantino’s cameo in Little Nicky takes the cake as the movie’s most unexpected.

15 Sandy Wexler (2017)

A comedic roast of Sandler’s former agent

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Director Steve Brill Release Date April 14, 2017 Cast Adam Sandler , Jennifer Hudson , Kevin James , Terry Crews , Rob Schneider , Colin Quinn , Lamorne Morris

Rob Schneider makes a brief appearance in Sandy Wexler, but his cameo is lost amid a sea of stars. Adam Sandler’s movies often have a few famous faces, but none go so far as Sandy Wexler, which uses phony interviews from celebrities as varied as Weird Al Yankovic, Judd Apatow and Vanilla Ice, with many more in between. These interviews add up to a mockumentary about Sandy Wexler, the Hollywood talent agent based on Adam Sandler’s real-life manager.

There’s still the essence of an interesting mockumentary about Hollywood in the 1990s, but the sheer volume of interviews and the bloated runtime rob
Sandy Wexler
of its dynamism.

Sandy Wexler seems to exclude the audience from its main joke, since Adam Sandler is playing a parody of a person nobody knows. His clownish portrayal also makes it difficult to connect with the protagonist by relating him to any real people, or even any well-known archetypes. There’s still the essence of an interesting mockumentary about Hollywood in the 1990s, but the sheer volume of interviews and the bloated runtime rob Sandy Wexler of its dynamism.

14 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)

Rob Schneider’s raunchy comedy was more popular with audiences than critics

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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was eviscerated by critics, but it earned over $90 million at the box office, so it must have done something wrong. The raunchy comedy stars Rob Schneider in one of his most famous roles as a hapless fish tank cleaner who resorts to sex work to make a quick buck after smashing a client’s expensive aquarium. What follows is a series of ludicrous sexual encounters with women who each have their own reasons for hiring a gigolo.

Schneider returned for a sequel in 2005,
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
, which fared just as poorly with critics.

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was the first movie to be produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions. Sandler gives himself the plum role of shouting various insults from off-screen, including the “Freak!” line which is one of very few things that people remember the first Deuce Bigalow movie for. Schneider returned for a sequel in 2005, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, which fared just as poorly with critics.

13 The Hot Chick (2002)

A body swap comedy about the differences between men and women

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Director Tom Brady Release Date December 13, 2002 Cast Rob Schneider , Rachel McAdams , Anna Faris , Matthew Lawrence , Eric Christian Olsen , Robert Davi , Melora Hardin , Michael O’Keefe , Angie Stone , Matt Weinberg , Alexandra Holden , Maritza Murray , Tia Mowry , Tamera Mowry , Michelle Branch , Jodi Long , Lee Garlington , Leila Kenzle , Fay Hauser , Sam Doumit , Megan Kuhlmann , Maria-Elena Laas , Ashlee Simpson , Jenna Dewan , Dick Gregory , Scott Dolezal , Shazia Ali , Vivian Corado , Ozman Sirgood , Louis Lombardi , Giselle Fernandez , Carmit Bachar , Mykal Anthony Bean , Staci B. Flood , Kimberly Morrow , Lisette Bustamante , Lisa Thompson , Jesse Santos , Ronnie Willis , Chris Moss , Robert Vinson , Paul Benshoof , Teresa Espinosa , Earl Wright , Chonique Sneed , Melanie Benz , Rebecca Lin , Nadine Ellis , Vergi Rodriguez , Katie Wiersema , Paige Peterson , Kimberly Green , Michelle Heitzler , Joslin Marie De Diego , Nicole Albright , Sandra McCoy , Rhonda Roberts , Erin Yvonne , Maria Carmen , Denise Marie Jerome , Joelene Walker , Christine Herrera , Elizabeth Herrera , Monica Soto , Leilani Rios , Jenna Stewart , Michael Papajohn , Kenny Alexander , Dane Farwell , Mark Chadwick , Ryan Bosch , Renee Reres Castle , Kimberly Fox , Hugh Gehrke , Lani Ideishi , Jessica Meza , TJ Myers , Adam Sandler , Simon Shelton , Robb Skyler , Anna Rose Smith , Hawk Younkins Expand

The Hot Chick is part Mean Girls and part Freaky Friday. A high school girl wakes up one morning to find her body switched with an older man, played by Rob Schneider. This premise gives Schneider a chance to prance around in his own overblown caricature of femininity, but The Hot Chick also manages to sneak in some intelligent observational comedy along with its blatant stereotyping.

Schneider is sure to include his usual heavy helping of slapstick and crude humor, but there are moments in
The Hot Chick
which dissect the difference between how women are perceived and how they actually are.

Schneider is sure to include his usual heavy helping of slapstick and crude humor, but there are moments in The Hot Chick which dissect the difference between how women are perceived and how they actually are. Adam Sandler gets a minor cameo as a soft-spoken salesman who tells Jessica’s friends about how every item in the shop can be used to hide weed, which is a reference to an old Saturday Night Live sketch led by Schneider.

12 Hubie Halloween (2020)

A rare family movie from Adam Sandler

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Director Steven Brill Release Date October 7, 2020 Cast Adam Sandler , Kevin James , Julie Bowen , Ray Liotta , Steve Buscemi , Rob Schneider

In some ways, Adam Sandler seems like an obvious fit for children’s movies, but his few attempts at appealing to younger audiences have been a mixed bag so far. The Hotel Transylvania movies have done well, but many of his other kids movies have been rejected by both critics and audiences. Hubie Halloween is a Halloween movie for the whole family, although it is unlikely to win over any fans who aren’t accustomed to Sandler’s humor.

Hubie Halloween
benefits from its charming visual design and one or two horror sequences laced with genuine tension, even if this tension is often undercut by a cheap joke.

Hubie Halloween is filled with cameos. There are so many that it’s hard to remember Rob Schneider’s role as Hubie’s old friend, but a lot of the cameos work surprisingly well. Shaquille O’Neal and Kenan Thompson are particularly good value, given their minimal screen time. Hubie Halloween also benefits from its charming visual design and one or two horror sequences laced with genuine tension, even if this tension is often undercut by a cheap joke.

11 You Don’t Mess With The Zohan (2008)

Global politics and hairdressing compete for the spotlight

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Director Dennis Dugan Release Date June 6, 2008 Cast Adam Sandler , John Turturro , Emmanuelle Chriqui , Nick Swardson , Lainie Kazan , Rob Schneider

Only Adam Sandler could make a movie about an Israeli super soldier that is basically apolitical. Sandler plays Zohan, the aforementioned counter-terrorist commando who moves to New York City to follow his dreams of becoming a hairstylist. Rather than wading into the politics of Israel’s foreign policy, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is a playful, campy social comedy with a ton of slapstick action.

You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
is certainly not the type of movie to propose any nuanced solutions to global conflicts. Instead, the movie focuses on vulgar humor and elements of action parody.

The movie opens with a close-up shot of Sandler’s crotch, and this sets the tone for the following two hours. Zohan uses his crotch and his abnormally flexible legs to kick his way through a steady stream of enemies. There is a half-baked story about cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians, but You Don’t Mess With the Zohan is certainly not the type of movie to propose any nuanced solutions to global conflicts. Instead, the movie focuses on vulgar humor and elements of action parody.

10 Grown Ups (2010)

Sandler gets his friends together for a summer adventure

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Director Dennis Dugan Release Date June 25, 2010 Cast Adam Sandler , Kevin James , Chris Rock

Grown Ups is the one Adam Sandler movie which best represents his approach to the art of filmmaking. He wants to goof around with his pals, and that’s about it. In Grown Ups, he assembles many of his regular collaborators and best friends for a silly comedy that has the same atmosphere as a summer camp, and this is probably exactly what it felt like on set for the actors.

Grown Ups
is the one Adam Sandler movie which best represents his approach to the art of filmmaking. He wants to goof around with his pals, and that’s about it.

Grown Ups starts off with the premise that five childhood friends are all returning to their hometown for the first time in 30 years to attend the funeral of their former basketball coach. This is merely a set-up for the characters to mess around with each other as they regress to their immature childhood selves. The success of Grown Ups led to a sequel, but Rob Schneider didn’t return for Grown Ups 2.

9 I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)

Adam Sandler and Kevin James tie the knot to game the system

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Director Dennis Dugan Release Date July 12, 2007 Cast Adam Sandler , Kevin James , Jessica Biel , Dan Aykroyd , Ving Rhames , Steve Buscemi

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is a strange oxymoron of a movie. In typical Adam Sandler style, there is physical humor, crude sexual innuendo and a lot of comedic anger. However, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is deceptively nuanced in certain ways. It has been criticized for its treatment of LGBTQ+ people, but it could just as easily be seen as a kindhearted movie about two friends who develop a new respect for gay people.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
has a well-meaning, albeit slightly heavy-handed, approach to some big societal themes.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry gives Adam Sandler and Kevin James enough room to stretch their comedic dynamic, and they produce plenty of laughs as two best friends. The movie is about friendship at its heart. However, although I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry has a well-meaning, albeit slightly heavy-handed, approach to some big societal themes, Rob Schneider’s cameo is a massive drawback. Schneider has Filipino heritage on his mother’s side, but his “yellowface” caricature is hard to watch.

8 Bedtime Stories (2008)

Another kid-friendly Adam Sandler comedy that plays to his strengths

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Director Adam Shankman Release Date December 24, 2008 Cast Adam Sandler , Keri Russell , Guy Pearce , Russell Brand , Richard Griffiths , Teresa Palmer

Bedtime Stories is a family movie about a handyman who discovers that his niece and nephew can predict what’s going to happen to him by joining in with the stories he tells them. The different stories give Sandler an opportunity to appear in several scenes taking place across the span of space and time. He appears in a medieval village, the wild west, and a gladiatorial arena floating in space, but each scene is grounded by his presence as a distinctly modern character.

The strange thing about
Bedtime Stories
is that some of its biggest laughs come from moments which are completely disconnected from its premise, but Sandler has always been able to conjure humor out of thin air.

The interplay between the fictional stories and the real world in Bedtime Stories is a joy to watch. Even though the story scenes can drag on for too long without any meaningful stakes, they lay the groundwork for a lot of tension the following day. They also provide the set-up for some surprising punch lines. The strange thing about Bedtime Stories is that some of its biggest laughs come from moments which are completely disconnected from its premise, but Sandler has always been able to conjure humor out of thin air.

7 The Longest Yard (2005)

A remake of a Burt Reynolds sports movie featuring Reynolds himself

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Director Peter Segal Release Date May 27, 2005 Cast Adam Sandler , Chris Rock , burt reynolds , James Cromwell , Nelly , William Fichtner , Joey Diaz

The Longest Yard is a remake of the 1974 Burt Reynolds sports movie about a group of prison inmates who challenge the guards to a game of football. In Adam Sandler’s version, Reynolds plays the team’s coach. The cast of The Longest Yard also includes several NFL stars, like the original, and a few WWE personalities, which is a new twist. The remake didn’t receive a response as positive as the original did, but it’s still a fun comedy.

Replacing Burt Reynolds with Adam Sandler is symbolic of the difference between the original and the remake.

Replacing Burt Reynolds with Adam Sandler is symbolic of the difference between the original and the remake. While the Reynolds version had a gritty story about life on the inside and the cruelty of the criminal justice system, Sandler’s remake is a lighthearted sports comedy that just happens to be set in a prison. Rob Schneider has a minor cameo, but he is here only as tradition.

6 Leo (2023)

Sandler plays an aging tuatara in this charming kids’ comedy

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Director Robert Marianetti , Robert Smigel , David Wachtenheim Release Date November 21, 2023 Cast Adam Sandler , Bill Burr , Cecily Strong , Jason Alexander , Sunny Sandler , Sadie Sandler , Rob Schneider , Jackie Sandler , Stephanie Hsu , Jo Koy

Adam Sandler has had a patchy record with his Netflix original movies, but Leo was a record-breaking success for the platform. Sandler stars as the titular reptile, who has spent his life as a classroom pet, but now seeks a deeper meaning to his existence. Rob Schneider has a small role as the school’s principal, but the focus remains on Leo and the children in the classroom, as well as a tortoise played by Bill Burr.

Adam Sandler has had a patchy record with his Netflix original movies, but
Leo
was a record-breaking success for the platform.

Leo is a charming story about finding one’s purpose in life, as the lizard discovers that he can use his 74 years of life experience to teach the children in the class. A large chunk of the movie’s runtime is devoted to Leo helping out various side characters with their problems. These subplots are all chances for Sandler to throw Leo into a series of comical challenges. Leo is getting a sequel, so Sandler and Schneider may already have their next movie lined up.

5 Click (2006)

Adam Sandler can control the universe in this high-concept comedy

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Director Frank Coraci Release Date June 23, 2006 Cast Adam Sandler , Kate Beckinsale , Christopher Walken , David Hasselhoff , Henry Winkler , Julie Kavner , Sean Astin , Jennifer Coolidge , Rachel Dratch , Sophie Monk , Jonah Hill

Since Uncut Gems was snubbed, Click is still the only Adam Sandler movie to be nominated for an Oscar. It received a nomination for Best Makeup, but lost out to Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. Click features Sandler as a workaholic father who is gifted a universal remote which literally controls the universe. The power inevitably goes to his head, but not before the film has a lot of fun and games with the concept.

The best supporting actor in
Click
is undoubtedly Christopher Walken, who can always steal a scene with deadpan humor.

Adam Sandler’s character is more relatable and grounded than many of his other comedies, and this allows Click to deliver a surprisingly emotional message about the importance of family. Rob Schneider tries his best to spoil this endearing message with another one of his racial caricatures. The best supporting actor in Click is undoubtedly Christopher Walken, who can always steal a scene with deadpan humor, just as he does in Pulp Fiction,Seven Psychopaths, and many more movies throughout his career.

4 Mr. Deeds (2002)

Sandler plays an average Joe who inherits an enormous fortune

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Director Steven Brill Release Date June 28, 2002 Cast Adam Sandler , Winona Ryder , John Turturro , Allen Covert , Peter Gallagher , Jared Harris

Rob Schneider has a small role in Mr. Deeds as a food delivery worker, but John Turturro steals the show as a long-suffering butler. Adam Sandler plays a small-town pizzeria owner who suddenly inherits a billion-dollar fortune and moves to New York City after his great-uncle’s death. Mr. Deeds is a fish-out-of-water story about how Longfellow Deeds brings his good-natured small-town sensibilities to the big city, which is teeming with selfish grifters.

Mr. Deeds
presents a simplistic fantasy about the differences between good, honest small-town America and the cynical city-dwellers.

Mr. Deeds presents a simplistic fantasy about the differences between good, honest small-town America and the cynical city-dwellers. Longfellow Deeds has the superpower of being a decent human, and this perplexes everyone he meets who believes he must be working some kind of con. This could come across as cheap and preposterous if not for how downright likable Deeds is.

3 The Waterboy (1998)

Adam Sandler’s take on underdog sports stories

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Director Frank Coraci Release Date November 6, 1998 Cast Adam Sandler , Kathy Bates , Henry Winkler , Fairuza Balk , Jerry Reed

Adam Sandler plays one of his typically idiotic characters in The Waterboy, but this time he is given an outlet to take revenge on everyone who looks down on him. Bobby realizes that he can channel his rage into football, and he earns a lot more respect that way. The Waterboy is structured like any other underdog sports movie, as Bobby’s football journey is wrapped up with his personal growth.

Rob Schneider has his most famous cameo of all in
The Waterboy
, as he yells the line
“You can do it!”
which went on to become a catchphrase for him.

Rob Schneider has his most famous cameo of all in The Waterboy, as he yells the line “You can do it!” which went on to become a catchphrase for him. Sander is in good form too. Some of his characters can be so moronic and surreal that they are hard to connect with, but Bobby is just the right level of stupid that makes him sympathetic. He’s one of Adam Sandler’s best characters.

2 50 First Dates (2004)

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore make a great couple in this romcom

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Director Peter Segal Release Date February 13, 2004 Cast Adam Sandler , Drew Barrymore , Rob Schneider , Sean Astin , Lusia Strus , Dan Aykroyd

Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore rekindle the on-screen chemistry they first shared in The Wedding Singer for 50 First Dates, a similarly charming romcom about a woman with a rare condition that affects her short-term memory. While the central conceit seems like Hollywood make-believe, the story was partially based on the real-life case of a British woman with a similar condition. Naturally, 50 First Dates takes some liberties with the facts, but people who are hoping for complete scientific accuracy from Adam Sandler movies are setting themselves up for disappointment.

50 First Dates
is a cozy romcom with a unique premise, and Sandler and Barrymore bring the best out of each other.

Rob Schneider plays the classic romcom part of the main character’s best friend, but he isn’t the kind of character who can offer up any wisdom. His most memorable scene involves him being savagely beaten with a baseball bat by Drew Barrymore. Aside from Schneider’s hit-and-miss character, 50 First Dates is a cozy romcom with a unique premise, and Sandler and Barrymore bring the best out of each other.

1 Big Daddy (1999)

Sandler’s immature manchild character takes on the duties of fatherhood

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Director Dennis Dugan Release Date June 25, 1999 Cast Adam Sandler , Cole Sprouse , Dylan Sprouse , Rob Schneider , Joey Lauren Adams , Jon Stewart , Allen Covert

Big Daddy stars Adam Sandler as a lovable loser who adopts a young child to prove to his girlfriend that he’s ready for more responsibility. Sandler’s movies often have a mean-spirited sensibility that suits his brash style of comedy, but Big Daddy is one of his more sentimental stories. The slapstick moments and childish gags are balanced out with a sweet narrative about the unexpected joys of fatherhood and growing up.

Sandler’s movies often have a mean-spirited sensibility that suits his brash style of comedy, but
Big Daddy
is one of his more sentimental stories.

Rob Schneider plays the same food delivery worker as he does in Mr. Deeds, and he is one of Sonny’s manchild friends who treat his new son as a fun novelty. The premise of Big Daddy is so simple that it provides the opportunity for plenty of great situational humor. Sonny’s inept parenting, which mostly involves laying down sheets of newspaper in his apartment, produces a surprising variety of jokes. Dylan and Cole Sprouse also get plenty of laughs as Sonny’s new charge.

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