In some ways, you’ve probably seen The Week Of before. Adam Sandler and Chris Rock essentially play themselves in this paint-by-numbers comedy centring on the crucible of a wedding. Sandler plays Kenny, an Everyman with a good heart (if an anarchic life), whilst Rock plays the more suave, successful but emotionally disengaged Kirby. The film’s first punchline is “that’s what she said”, and if that isn’t a cast iron reflection of what to expect over the following two hours, then I don’t know what is.
It’s impulsive comedy in the sense that it latches onto things which have always been ‘funny’, at least to fans of Sandler’s work. His uncle Seymour is missing both of his legs and Sandler can’t ever open the wheelchair, for example. The Manager of the hotel where the wedding is supposed to be held is foreign, barely understandable,...
It’s impulsive comedy in the sense that it latches onto things which have always been ‘funny’, at least to fans of Sandler’s work. His uncle Seymour is missing both of his legs and Sandler can’t ever open the wheelchair, for example. The Manager of the hotel where the wedding is supposed to be held is foreign, barely understandable,...
- 4/27/2018
- by Luke Walpole
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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