Another Sandler hit!

The only Adam Sandler movie I was not satisfied with (by Adam Sandler movie I mean movies done by Happy Madison productions) is Eight Crazy Nights. Aside from that one, Sandler has had a consistent standard of humor and good-feelings in all of his work, as well as an awesome and enormous recurring cast. This is also, I should note, the first time he has paired off with Drew Barrymore since "The Wedding Singer", arguably his very first really good comedy. Alas, we don't get to see John Turturro again in this one, but as usual, Rob Schneider makes frequent appearances as a good friend of Sandler's character.

One thing I have noticed is that each of his films becomes progressively more mature. That is, he plays a more sedate character each and every time, and his character in "50 First Dates" is perhaps the most normal of all of them. Also, there is always a love interest in his movies from which a great deal of the tension springs, but in this one it's just out there, it is the one and only conflict he must resolve. So, more than any other film of Sandler's this one is a romantic comedy.

The disease his on-again off-again girlfriend has is something that takes away her memory while she sleeps. So she won't ever remember him the day after she meets him, or ANY day after she meets him. This asks an interesting question: can she really be considered to be in love with him if she doesn't remember falling for him? It tugs at the heartstrings as much as it makes us laugh, and believe me, there are some hilarious parts in here, although it is overall more sedate than usual Sandler fare.

The music and the scenery mesh well in this film also. It's a very beautiful movie set in Hawaii, with plenty of bright green and blue and nice camera work. The laid-back atmosphere of the place is displayed well (though I confess I've never been there), and he's even got some of the lingo down. He's pulled off another hit, and his stuff just keeps getting better and more ambitious.