Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite with their Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci, in the tale of a working single mother (Barrymore) with two adolescent sons. By day she’s a closet designer, by night she’s an exhausted woman hoping to meet Mister Right. Widower (Sandler) works at Dick’s Sporting Goods, the father of three daughters, by day socially inept and by night still pining for his deceased wife.
Despite their mundane and exhausting existence, Barrymore and Sandler’s characters are both just looking for love. But their blind date is a disaster, until a series of events lands them on an African Safari. Together. Sounds corny? It is. Sounds sappy? It is. But it’s something else, too. While the jokes are sometimes crass, corny and predictable, just as you’re about to get sick of the one liners, Sandler does what Sandler does best…he softens the story by weaving his usual parallel narrative of ‘family matters.’
It’s goofy, it’s full of laugh-out-loud and a few legit tearjerker moments, and it truly works. ♕ ♚ ♛