In his fourth contracted movie with Netflix, Sandler teams up with Chris Rock in an underwhelming film about two fathers whose kids are getting married
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In 2014, Adam Sandler and his production company Happy Madison inked a lucrative deal with Netflix to star in four movies on the streaming platform. The first two, The Ridiculous 6 and The Do-Over, were grating and uninspired – but they evidently attracted enough eyeballs to make Netflix add another four films to Sandler’s contract last year, bringing the prospective total to eight. Bankable as he may be, though, Sandler’s work with Netflix has thus far suggested a man on autopilot, unwilling to update his shtick so long as the checks keep coming in.
Related: The Meyerowitz Stories review: Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler up their game in entertaining daddy-issues comedy
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In 2014, Adam Sandler and his production company Happy Madison inked a lucrative deal with Netflix to star in four movies on the streaming platform. The first two, The Ridiculous 6 and The Do-Over, were grating and uninspired – but they evidently attracted enough eyeballs to make Netflix add another four films to Sandler’s contract last year, bringing the prospective total to eight. Bankable as he may be, though, Sandler’s work with Netflix has thus far suggested a man on autopilot, unwilling to update his shtick so long as the checks keep coming in.
Related: The Meyerowitz Stories review: Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler up their game in entertaining daddy-issues comedy
Continue reading.
- 4/27/2018
- by Jake Nevins
- The Guardian - Film News
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