The case of Adam Sandler endlessly fascinates me. The man generates more money at the box office than the GDP of most African countries (blood diamonds and zebra pelts does not an economy make). And there was a time when I actually did find him funny. Yet Adam has long since stopped having a positive influence in our lives and has, if anything, been actively harming them for a while now. He’s like the Jerry Sandusky of comedy and we are kids in his Second Mile Foundation getting laugh-raped in the shower.
That’s My Boy is the latest offering from Sandler, featuring him as a hard-partying man in his 40s and Andy Samberg as his hardworking, tight-laced son. For some reason, the two are thrust together. Since I haven’t seen the movie, that’s the extent of what I know. Oh, we can make assumptions: That the son learns to loosen up from Dad and Dad learns that we all need to be responsible sometimes from his son. I’m sure the two help each other out when it comes to a couple of jams with their respective ladies, too. And there probably isn’t a scene where Sandler drunkenly runs over a migrant worker and Samberg helps him hide the corpse, hilarious as that may be.
If you’re going to watch That’s My Boy this weekend, my reaction is to ask why, when there are so many good comedies in this world. The original Arthur was fantastic. Bull Durham is available via HBO GO. That’s a good one. You can even watch funny Simpsons clips on YouTube from the comfort of your own home. This isn’t 1913. We don’t have to go see the latest movie because it’s one of four that will play at our local Nickelodeon this year and missing it would rob us of a cultural reference point.
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