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I love Adam Sandler films so I was really pleased to have received this as a gift. This boxed set contains 3 of his films on 3 separate DVDs, The Longest Yard, Big Daddy and Click.
The weakest film of the bunch, in my opinion is The Longest Yard. It's not a bad film by any means and worth watching, but, equally, it's not one of Sandler's best films. The film is a remake of a film starring Vinnie Jones. Sandler plays an ex (American) football player who gets arrested for drunken behaviour. He gets sentenced and ends up in prison. After some 'persuasion' from the warden, he trains up the inmates to play football, against the guards, and, basically, to allow them to get some revenge on the guards that treat them like dirt. This film also stars Chris Rock and Burt Reynolds.
Big Daddy is a fairly good film. Sandler's character basically has a kid dumped on him. The kid is actually his flatmate's child, but, his flatmate is unaware of this and in Japan! So, Sandler takes care of the kid as best he can and grows to quite enjoy looking after the child. Basically, the kid helps turn his character around from being a lazy idiot into a respected member of society! (Typical Sandler stuff). All in all, it's a good film with decent acting from the kid. Rob Schneider plays his (usual) role very well.
Finally Click, one of his more recent fillms is included. This is a weird one as it's not sure what type of genre it wants to be. Sandler's character is a hard worker who neglects his family in a bid to get promoted. He works for a smarmy character played by David Hasselhoff. One thing leads to another and he buys a remote control which he finds can control time, i.e. allow him to pause and ffwd time. The remote is a learning remote and slowly takes over his life by automating it. As the film goes on, it becomes quite sad and more serious as the character sees all that he's lost buy abusing the control. I won't spoil the ending by talking about this any more but, I do highly recommend it as it is quite a touching film with many redeeming features.
A good box of Sandler films with something to please everyone.
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD features. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
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26.01.2008 00:23
Thanks for letting me know you've updated this. Re-rated for you.
25.01.2008 20:57
I see you've posted this as a DVD review, but you've not mentioned the DVD features. Are there any extras? If so, what are they and are they any good? If you add to this, or if you change it to be posted as a "Film Only" review, which can be done by accessing "edit review" above the review and changing the drop down menu under the "Which format are you reviewing?" question at the bottom, please let me know and I'll re-rate.
25.01.2008 18:27
Adam Sandler is a great actor and I especailly love all these films, great review =) x