No matter how much good-hearted licentiousness follows in the rest of the movie, the opening sequence brings a unshakable sourness to the whole affair.
With enough wedding-related shenanigans to pull in the date crowd, the guffaw-to-gag ratio remains relatively respectable, though there's nothing here that hasn't been attempted many times over.
I did laugh. The movie is so disgusting it is worthy of the Farrelly brothers.
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Slant MagazineNick Schager
Slant MagazineNick Schager
That's My Boy lazily exists in a fantasyland of Adam Sandler's perpetual adolescence, even as it generates some moderate comic friction from Sandler and Andy Samberg's testy back-and-forth.
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe
Sadly, That's My Boy relies on caricatures, rather than characters, to make you laugh.
All in all, it could have been worse. Puerile, crotch-fixated and very occasionally, inanely funny, Adam Sandler's raunchiest star vehicle in years has a small saving grace in Andy Samberg's performance.
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Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
This is one of those movies you feel stupider just for having sat through. I think I'm already worse at math.
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New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
As awful as most of That's My Boy is, it's sort of mesmerizing to see how Sandler - in a script credited to David Caspe - keeps his touchstones in place.
The film is such a barren comic wasteland of scatology and misogyny that Vanilla Ice steals the film with a good-natured, self-deprecating portrayal of himself as Sandler's sleazy party buddy.
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Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy.