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Big Daddy. Yet another Adam Sandler film, or well worth a watch?
*********************History********************* Adam Sandler was born in 1966, making him much older than I'd realised, I'd say he tends to look mid-thirties in his newer films. Sandler is a well-known comic actor, with more than 30 films behind him. His first film, as far as I can find out, was Going Overboard back in 1989, meaning that his career has now spanned three decades, which I think is an achievement regardless of your feelings about him. I say regardless of your feelings as I know from experience that he's a real Marmite man, some love him, others hate him. He's criticised for playing the same part time after time, but if it works then why not? His films are still huge draws for the public. For a while I was one of the hate-him school, but once I found out that he has co-written and co-produced a huge number of his films I began to change my mind. I now find myself thinking that he;s a very shrewd guy, he's found a formula that most definitely works, and he's cashed in on it. Even without being one of Sandler's biggest fans, I always enjoyed some of his films, others I just found too silly. The current review is of Big Daddy.
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Big Daddy was released
in 1999 It has a cinema rating of 12. I think that this is quite appropriate, some of the humour is a little adult, and there is a very very small amount of kissing, including gay kissing. The language isn't, to me, an issue. I'd say that if you have a child of 10 who wants to watch the film and you feel that they are generally mature, this film shouldn't offend or upset them.
The cast of this film is quite extensive, but the key characters, and the big name cameo are: Sonny Koufax – Adam Sandler Julian 'Frankenstein' McGrath – Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse (I don't know if these are twin boiys who shared the part, but that's the only reason I can think of for there to be two boys for one character) Delivery Guy – Rob Scneider Layla Maloney – Joey Lauren Adams Corrine Maloney – Leslie Mann Homeless Guy – Steve Buscemi
If you want a complete cast list, try the following link http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142342/
The running time of this film is about 90 minutes. It's a fairly short film, but I don't feel that anything has been unnecessarily cut or glossed over to achieve this. I tend to prefer my films to be short, so this is an ideal length for me.
Sonny is thirty-something. He works one day a week, and for the rest of the time he lives off the compensation he won when his foot was run over. He has no responsibilities, no real ambitions and is very happy with life... That is until his girlfriend decides that she wants a relationship with a future and goes away for a few days to think things through. When Sonny's doorbell goes and a five year old boy, supposedly the love child of Sonny's housemate, is left there, Sonny thinks he's found the ideal way to convince his girlfriend that he's mature, responsible and that this will be the perfect way to impress her. She's not impressed, and he's left with a kid. Can Sonny, a big kid himself, really cope with a real child? Can the child cope with him? And will the squirrel and the mouse ever kiss? (it's an inside joke, watch to find out).
I really like the soundtrack to this film, and clearly so do a lot of people as it won a BMI Film Music Award. It includes: (try Wikipedia for a much more complete list of the soundtrack, I used the official soundtrack to jog my memory for this, but there's loads more on Wikipedia) -Sheryl Crowe covering Sweet Child of Mine -Styx's Babe -Yvonne Elliman's If I can't have you -Everlast Only Love can Break Your Heart -Garbage When I Grow Up
There aren't many extras on this DVD, but I'm not a big fan of them so I wasn't disappointed. The extras that are there are: -Featurette – I've not watched this, if I remember correctly I tried but it wouldn't run in my player (which is an old and fairly temperamental one, to the extent that it will play a disc then half way through decide there is no disc, so this isn't definitely an issue) -Filmographies – these are quite interesting fact files about the main actors, including date of birth, brief film history and so on -Music videos -Trailers
The film can be viewed in either English or German, with subtitles in 15 languages.
There are some really funny moments in this film, not a huge number of what I'd call laugh-out-loud moments, but a lot of giggles and loads of smiles. There are also a lot of aww moments, both because the kid is cute and because there are some genuinely touching scenes.
I think that Sandler acts his part well, he's certainly a reasonably believable character, and the character is very consistent. This is true of all the actors, they are consistent and play their parts well.
If you're an extra lover, then this disc may be a disappointment, but if you're just in the mood for a low-concentration, easy-watching highly enjoyable film, give this a go.
My copy cost me £3 from HMV earlier on this year. I've seen the film for £3.98 new on Amazon, 99p and up (plus p&p) used; on e-bay from £3.88. I really don't think this is a bad price for a DVD, and I'm sure that if you shop around you can get it for less.
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