Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Nealon, Terry Crews, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Emma Fuhrmann, Bella Thorne, Braxton Beckham, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Kyle Red Silverstein, Joel McHale, Shaquille O’Neal, Jessica Lowe

Directed By: Frank Coraci

This film has a really slow start. That blind date that opens the whole thing really makes Adam Sandler look like a complete tool, and it takes virtually the entire movie to redeem that. That being said, for a duo that has been in other (successful) films together, Sandler and Barrymore have no chemistry here. Sandler seems to be sleepwalking through the film, like his old schtick has him bored to tears. I get it, you’re old now, and you can’t do the same stuff you could 20 years ago. We all want different things, and it’s time Adam Sandler’s style of films grew up.

The kids in this film are pretty good. Alyvia Alyn Lind is the most adorable moppet to have been plucked from obscurity in quite some time. And in the supporting cast, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Jessica Lowe are actually pretty great in their roles. Terry Crews is overused. Once, maybe twice, but his gimmick is beaten like a dead horse.

I didn’t hate this film, I just was disappointed by the first half of the film. By the time the film got going, I realized I was more invested in Barrymore and the kids than I was in Sandler/Barrymore. I really wanted Barrymore to raise Sandler’s girls, because I felt so bad for their horrible hairstyles and choice of clothing. And who names their kid Espn? Really?

This is an easy film to crap on, but it’s not the worst film of the year. It’s not even the worst film of Sandler’s career. It’s just a below average comedy, or as Hollywood would put it “a misfire”.

FINAL GRADE: C-