Has some good laughs - Big Daddy Reviews

Big Daddy is funny, in spots. Adam Sandler really impressed me with Happy Gilmore, I thought every scene in that movie was absolutely hilarious. Big Daddy was the second film I saw of Sandler's, and I half to say, I was impressed for the first half of the film. The second half starts to get repetitive, and just when we think we know what's gonna happen in this comedy, it tries to switch to drama, quite unsucessfully, might I add. It's the story of Sonny Kaufax (Adam Sandler), a grown up kid who's girlfriend just dumped him and he thinks that maybe he can impress her with this kid that accidentaly showed up at his doorstep. But then he starts to actually like the kid and shows him useful, fatherly things, such as picking your own name (he picks Frankenstein), tripping rollerbladers with sticks, and pissing in your teacher's plants. So yeah, Sonny ain't a good father, even when he tries. He doesn't do anything to stop his kid from doing extremely antisocial and mean-spirited things, but that's really besides the point. All the movie wants to do is get a cheap laugh or two out of the viewer, and for the first 3/4 of the film, it suceeds at getting the viewer to crack up (however mean-spirited the humor is) on several occasions. The last chunk of the film sort of expects us to sympathize deeply with Sonny or something as he battles in court to get custody of the kid. Unfortunetely, Adam Sandler never proved he was very good at drama till Punch-Drunk Love, but that was 3 years later. He needed more maturity to bring to hte role than he had then. Nonetheless, Big Daddy is worth checking out if you wanna see how Adam Sandler evolved from doing crap like Billy Madison to doing the good stuff like Punch-Drunk Love and 50 First Dates.