Big Daddy (1999)
Written: Jul 14 '99 (Updated Mar 04 '00)
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Pros: Likable cast, Often funny
Cons: Manipulative, Ending is unlikely
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| BrianKoller's Full Review: |
Adam Sandler is currently one of Hollywood's highest
paid actors, pulling down upwards of twenty million
dollars a film. But he earns his money, as his
films continue to do well. Sandler is likable, and
his comic characters are credible and usually win
the audience's sympathy. It helps that he is an
above average comic writer.
Sonny (Sandler) plays a complacent thirty-something
law school graduate, who refuses to join a law firm but
instead works part-time at a toll booth. His girlfriend
Vanessa (Kristy Swanson) is threatening to leave him over
his lack of ambition. In an attempt to keep her, Sonny
fradulently adopts the illegitimate five-year-old son of
his best friend Kevin (Jon Stewart), who as a plot
contrivance is indefinitely in China.
Vanessa breaks up with Sonny anyway, and Sonny soon
learns the down side of having a kid: They can wet the
bed and throw up. While Sonny bonds well with little
Julian (played by twins Cole and Dylan Sprouse), his
parenting skills are abysmal. Soon he is in danger
of losing the kid to social workers, and he could land
in jail due to fraud. Can he get his new girlfriend
Layla (Joey Lauren Adams) to help defend him in court?
The court battle, and subsequent completely happy
ending, take the momentum out of what had been a
mildly engaging comedy. In the court scene, practically
the whole supporting cast shows up to support Sonny,
several of them seemingly materializing out of thin air
into the courtroom. Most unlikely among these is Sonny's
dad (Joe Bologna), an ill-tempered man who thinks that
his son is worthless.
"Big Daddy" has the usual goofy supporting characters
found in a comedy. Steve Buscemi is a talkative
street person, Edmund Lyndeck is a cantankerous codger,
Rob Schneider is a dazed delivery man, and there are
a pair of power-dressing gay lawyers who thankfully
don't speak with lisps or in a high pitch. (55/100)
Recommended:
No
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