Blended

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Dino

Adam Sandler teams up with Drew Barrymore again and gets a free trip to Africa. And if you see this film you're just lining his pockets and encouraging him to keep aiming lower. Everyone involved in this film seemed to have forgotten how jokes work. And drama. And romance. It's like they've heard of movies and read about how they work from some cheap screenwriting guide and tried to best approximate what they think a story is. 

It hits all the beats its supposed to with the subtlety and grace of drunk gorilla wielding a sledgehammer. It has pretty actors in it, playing a perfect variety of age ranges and sexes to appeal to a broad demographic, without having any defining qualities of their own that might alienate prospective ticket buyers. It has pretty locations and animals to provide the backdrop for escapist entertainment. Everything is so manufactured and paint by numbers that I'm pretty sure this film was made by a committee that's perfected the art of mass appeal. Or possibly a scripting bot.

Yes it does everything it's supposed to, with as little effort as possible. It's not even stupid enough to be offensively bad. It's just the weakest effort I think I've seen from Happy Madison productions, a studio that of late has at least managed to inspire hatred and disgust from its imbecilic output. There's just nothing to this.