An average movie

Can you believe that this movie was, at some point, the highest grossing sports comedy of all time? For some reasons, I didn’t manage to watch it completely the first time around so I had to watch it all over again but, surprisingly, it became almost watchable the 2nd time around. Still, as usual with Sandler, it was rather worthless though. Basically, it turned out to be some kind of mix between ‘Happy Gilmore’ and ‘Forrest Gump’ and, obviously, this mix was terribly misguided and rather offensive. I mean, I have never been a fan of  ‘Forrest Gump’ in the first place but, to turn it into some crass comedy like this one was just terrible. As usual, Sandler played his typical cringe-inducing character but, this time, it was even worse since he was playing some kind of mentally impaired man and it was just painful to behold. Concerning Kathy Bates, she delivered a decent performance but her character was just not entertaining at all either. Eventually, the only thing that worked for me in this movie was Fairuza Balk. Indeed, her character was not bad at all and Balk must have been the only believable love interest I had ever seen in a Adam Sandler feature. To conclude, I really didn’t like this movie at all and I don’t think it is worth a look whatsoever, except if you are really a fan of the genre.