You Don’t Mess With the Sandman
There is one man in Hollywood who I can honestly say I have so much love and devotion for, and that is Adam Sandler.
He is not smart. He is not gorgeous-looking. He’s not funny in a smart kind of David Duchovny way (he tends to be more slapstick). He’s a Republican (ugh). But I don’t care. When I watch a Sandler movie, I feel better. It’s like a shot of Demerol. All the pain just miraculously goes away.
His latest film, You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, is a typical Sandler film. It has the same tried and tested ingredients of each of his (Happy Madison) films.
1. There’s always some reference to sex — having sex, women’s body parts, his front side or his back side. in this film it’s sex … with the elderly. Which proves how much of a tease he is — he pumps up like a guy about to don a Batsuit, his arms and his abs are beautiful, but he doesn’t even get to kiss the girl. But he does lick the earring off an old lady’s earlobe.
Yeah. Many cringe-worthy moments like that in here.
2. Cameos of his friends. Let’s see, I saw Rob Schneider, Robert Smigel (his Emmy award-winning writer/friend from SNL days who also writes for Conan O’Brien), Kevin Nealon, John McEnroe, Kevin James, Kevin Farley (the late Chris Farley’s brother), Chris Rock, John Turturro. Hmmm. I wonder where Allen Covert is. And Steve Buscemi.
I hope I had a friend who always gave me jobs too.
3. Hot girl who his character gets in the end. (Emmanuel Chirqui, is it? Nah. Nobody beats Drew.)
4. Big crowds that converge towards the end of the film as they cheer him on. The biggest crowd, to my recollection, is the football stadium crowd at the end of Anger Management. But my favorite crowd is still the airplane passenger crowd in Wedding Singer.
5. Musical artist cameos. In Wedding Singer, it was Billy Idol. Ozzy Osbourne in Little Nicky. And in this one, Mariah Carey.
6. Sandler also loves his wife,Jackie Titone,so much, I’ve seen her in Little Nicky, 50 First Dates and Big Daddy. She’s not in this one though, lucky bi… I mean, girl … is pregnant again.
7. Sandler singing. Or Sandler dancing. Or both.
Lovely. Great little break from the X-files anticipation.
P.S. You know what Adam named her first daughter? Sadie Madison. Because he’s Happy Madison. Get it?
Humor only Sandman can.
