Big Daddy Critic Reviews
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Sandler's best movie, a surprisingly touching and consistent comedy that finds him reaching out to new audiences without abandoning the transgressive meanness that has enlivened his best work.Read the full review
While the loyal male-teen aud core will not be disappointed with the spate of gags just for them, story contains solid date-movie material.Read the full review
Much of Big Daddy looks like it was made up on the spot, but Sandler, with his bad-dog eagerness to get caught in the act of misbehaving, pulls you through it.Read the full review
Go to this movie for the cheap laughs and bodily fluid jokes -- those are its strengths.Read the full review
Sweetly dopey, kid-friendly, if overly contrived comedy.Read the full review
It's a flimsy sentimental comedy with more product plugs and fewer laughs than might have been hoped for.Read the full review
There's no doubt Sandler is talented, but if he persists in believing that, like Elvis, his presence alone covers a multitude of omissions and inconsistencies, he will squander his gift and make a series of forgettable films in the process.Read the full review
Big Daddy should be reported to the child welfare office.Read the full review
Dismal. Lame. Not funny.Read the full review
Nasty to women, cruel to old people and tosses in a cardboard gay couple for gratuitous laughs. It's also got one of those annoying soundtracks that lays rock music right over the dialogue -- as if it wanted to distract us from it.Read the full review
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