Punch-Drunk Love (DVD)

...anything further, we've established that Punch-Drunk Love does not conform to the usual romantic comedy cliches. To describe this film in a way that demonstrates the tone without giving too much away is a more difficult task than one would think. I suspect this is largely to the film being so different to other films of it's nature. Barry Egan (Adam Sandler) is a mild-mannered manager at a novelty toilet plunger company whose life is constantly ...
...products. To say that Punch-Drunk Love is strange is to put it mildly. If one thought Paul Thomas Anderson's previous film, Magnolia, was quirky enough, this pushes well beyond the levels set in that film. Despite this though, it's actually a much simpler film. Strip away the offbeat elements and you're left with a simple tale of two lonely and wounded people falling in love. In the hands of another filmmaker, this could have been a disaster, but ...

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It’ll be ok! – they said. It won’t be like any other Adam Sandler movie! But he’s the star, I said – what will it be like? It’ll be great! Touching, sweet, quirky and downright weird. Treat yourself! Ok, so having read the reviews I was pretty excited to see this film. It does contain the cinematic equivalent of marzipan in the form of the dreaded Adam Sandler, but all the signs were that this was groundbreaking new stuff. And in a way I suppose ...
...called Barry Egan. Barry runs a company that sells novelty toilet plungers, and that just about sums up his life. He’s painfully awkward, nervous, sexually frustrated and totally under the control of his overbearing sisters – all seven of ‘em. In an attempt to make conversation with a woman, Barry calls up a phone sex line, where he befriends the lovely Georgia. But Georgia isn’t all she seems, and pretty soon our hero is being blackmailed over ...

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It didn’t really have a chance did it? It bombed in America, the one place where Adam Sandler is well known and then it received virtually no publicity over here because the marketing team thought everyone would hate it. Although, Punch Drunk Love isn’t exactly what you’d call a commercially promising movie seeing as a) it stars Adam Sandler, b) it’s a deep, multilayered film that requires intelligence to watch and c) it’s rated 15, alienating most ...
...Sandler comedy. The only disappointment with this film is that it contains Adam Sandlers best ever performance but has such limited appeal that it will surely be swallowed up by negativity. Despite negative reviews from people who hate Sandler or just didn’t understand it, Punch Drunk Love is a wonderful, intricate and complex film that recalls the best work of the Coen brothers and combines it with the brilliance of Boogie Nights and Magnolia. ...

willgould 20.02.2003 · Read full review
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The first thing I've got to say is, don't believe the categorisation. I know it's under "Comedies" here, but it's not exactly what you might be expecting from other movies in that genre. Having said that, I wouldn't even like to suggest where it should be classified. Is there a "wierd indie throw-your-preconceptions-out-the-window" category? No, thought not. Alright, on with the review... I am not exactly a fan of Adam Sandler - I’d never ...
...Wedding Singer, the Water boy - I found neither of them funny or enjoyable, and I have to say I even found the characters he played rather irritating. I’d had this idea that Sandler was the kind of actor young teenage boys might like, and that I should avoid his films at all costs. But… The reviews of "Punch drunk love" were all warning us (for the Sandler fans, no doubt) that he was quite different in this movie. So I went to see it. ...

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Enter the world, if you will, of Andersons 2002 offering ‘Punch-Drunk Love’. Starring in lead roles are the annoyingly likeable Adam Sandler with the accomplished Emily Watson. Support coming from Mary Lynn Rajskub (24), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Mission Impossible 3) and his regular on screen sidekick Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights). Sandler plays the part of Barry Egan, an emotionally crippled man; suffering with malfunctioning self control circuits ...
...overbearing sisters escalating his inner turmoil as they uninvitingly lavish their hard edged concern upon him. Straight forward enough, even when a phone-sex call going awry is thrown into the intriguing mix. It really is a simple storyline, twisted awkwardly by Andersons vision. When Sandler was asked about his role in this film, he told of a gruelling daily routine, with many hoops of mayhem to bounce through being provided for him at every opportunity. ...

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...was hating it. Punch-Drunk love really is a good title for this movie because it kind of deals with those feelings of violence that are sometimes expressions of love and romance. The best example I can come up with is 'I love you so much I could eat you/I love you so much I could squash you'. But for me the title also pretty much summed up the feeling that the whole movie gave me. It was agonisingly slow at times (deliberately I think) and at other ...
...happens in the movie because it really isn't the most impressive plot but I will say that it is romantic in some bits and really funny at others (although I dont know if this was only because of the slow dull contrast of the other parts of the movie). Although I didnt feel as though I easily loved it, I felt that I really wanted to. I was a bit reluctant to say that I didnt because something about this movie makes you feel as though some really pretensious ...

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Okay first off, I'm not a big fan of Adam Sandler, he's been ploughing a furrow of pretty much the same character for sometime now. But this is definitely a good move, despite the poor audience turnout. It's a quirky little film, Adam Sandler is permanently dressed in a bright blue suit and plays a character who own a toilet plunger shop, who obsessively collects tins of food to get free flights (that he never uses). Despite his reasonably calm ...
...one scene where he smashes up a restaurant bathroom then walks calmly back to the table to join his date. It follows him as he and a fellow loner cautiously start dating, and he has to deal with various obstacles being thrown at him by some very nasty blackmailers. This film does require some patience, each scene has a slow, leisurely pace. Sometimes it can appear nothing is happening for some time, but this adds to the depth of the film, and the ...

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Punch-drunk love is not your typical Adam Sandler movie, far from it. We see Sandler cut loose from the physical comedy role. The surprising thing is that Sandler can actually act. We see him as a slightly less than normal toiletries salesman Barry Egan in a world over ran by his sisters. Emily Watson plays his love interest and brings a lot to the film. Barry Egan(Sandler) gets into trouble from the beginning, he's obsessive and compulsive but is ...
...big mistake. The story that unfolds is not only hilarious but well thought out. There is a strong plot with Sandler developing his role as an absolute nutcase. He loses the head at the flip of a switch and some scenes are quite gritty. I can't explain the brilliance of this film, I really think that Sandler has showed his true genious. Go see it now, seriously you still there, get up right now and go see it. ...

georgehan 16.09.2003 · Read full review
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To be brutally honest I was putting off seeing this film because of Adam Sandler. I enjoyed him in Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, but honestly: Big Daddy and that NIck thing!? But I should have trusted PT Anderson who is quite a singular talent. This film is brilliant. Original, surprising and subtle. Adam Sandler does a good job and plays it quite straight which is a departure. He is supported by an excellent ensemble cast and superb direction. ...

damianheffernan 27.01.2004 · Read full review
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If you have read any of my reviews you will notice it isnt ofteni come across a bad movie i wouldnt recomend but here it is this is that movie. After being told this was a fantastic movie i sat down and watched this one but right from the word go i had trouble with it. The plot is about a man who has lots of problems phycolgicly one night he uses a sex chat line and the girl he talks to trys to black mail him for money,shortly afterwards his life ...
...falls in love however he is still harrassed by the chat operator and has to try and hide whats happening from his girlfriend. I found some parts of the film so random i really didnt get it the content was fairly boring and i just couldnt enjoy it,i didnt find it amusing and would advise people to stay clear,dont get me wrong i love adam sandler and ill give a wide range of films a try ,but to be honest i cant belive it was intresting enough to make ...

daxus100 09.09.2008 · Read full review
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