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...write a thesis on the art of comedy. Like many an industrious student in the information age, you go to the Internet and purchase one. On a website that sells dissertations and theses, you comb through papers on Moliere, Chaucer and Shakespeare until you find one you like: "Adam Sandler's Big Daddy: Utopian Qualities and Social Propaganda," a bargain at just under...
...Utopian qualities as they exist in the movie Big Daddy is a decidedly obvious deduction...[Big Daddy] speaks to the grave deficit in man's quest to define human happiness." It goes on for 12 more pages, using some mighty fancy words to describe the cultural resonance of Sandler's 1999 hit, in which he befriends a little boy and shows the kid how to urinate against a wall...
Critics might want to start downloading because with Punch-Drunk Love (see review), the cultural significance of Sandler's work has become a serious proposition. In his new movie, Sandler plays a plunger salesman who dreams of escaping his banal existence via frequent-flyer miles. As far as romantic comedies go, it's very strange, which is what you would expect from director Paul Thomas Anderson of Magnolia and Boogie Nights. What you don't expect is an art film starring Sandler, whose lowbrow comedies have earned nearly $400 million since 1998 and have made him an idol of teenage...
There's something touching about funny people when they drop the comedy and get serious. The deaths of Farley, Radner and John Belushi loom large over the book, and the sense of wartime camaraderie among the big stars of the early 1990s--Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler and David Spade--is often heartwarming. But there's anger in these voices too. Relying on some Darwinian theory of comedy--survival of the funniest--Michaels pits the cast members against one another in a bitter competition for air time, which once drove a shaking Victoria Jackson to stand on a chair...
...little more than a pretentious and immature child. Either way, most agreed that he was one of the most original of the modern filmmakers, a belief that will be further cemented with the release of his new film, Punch-Drunk Love, a romantic comedy featuring Adam Sandler and Emily Watson...