there are few stars more divisive than
this guy welcome to watchmojo.com
Sandler movies once our beat touch that
floor I'm gonna get too many brain cells
back don't be in such a hurry for this
list we're looking at Adam Sandler's
greatest films along with his most
terrible phone company would you please
install coupons in every adult bedroom
right away number five worst the
ridiculous six this limp attempt at a
Western comedy marked the dawn of a new
era for Adam Sandler rookie here my day
is made the ridiculous six was the first
movie to come out of the comedian's
collaboration with Netflix while
arguably better shot than some of happy
Madison's lesser films the ridiculous
six fine Sandler at his most checked out
with the actor bringing little to no
energy to the lead role and rarely
cracking anything resembling a joke why
have you come here not a man for
chitchat
not even the addition of Terry Crews can
save the ridiculous six the film
meanders along in a way that makes its
two hour runtime feel interminable from
one poorly conceived sketch about donkey
feces to the next plus it'll conceived
caricatures and random baseball games
very little material lands welcome my
friends to the first ever playing of a
new sport a sport of my own devising on
this field 210 person teams will engage
in a battle of yes cue number five best
the wedding singer after two movies that
stressed Sandler's Angry Men shtick the
wedding singer shifted focus to the
comedian's softer side
crows over with you
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passed alongside the infallible through
Barrymore Sandler's Robbie Hart is
genuinely kind and sympathetic even if
being left at the altar left the singer
somewhat broken as a rom-com the wedding
singer gets by on the chemistry between
its two leads while also using Sandler's
trademark outbursts as part of the
protagonists growth rather than just a
quick and identifiable gag while Steve
Buscemi might steal the biggest laugh in
the movie Sandler delivers an earnest
and warm performance that has stood the
test of time why can't you be more like
your brother Harold would never beat up
his landlord number four worst bedtime
stories in bedtime stories Sandler stars
as a handyman who tells stories to his
niece and nephew that begin to affect
real life he was in fact just a lowly
peasant and even though he was the son
of the late great Lord Marty and knew
everything there is to know about
running a castle everyone just took him
for granted it's not the most
aggressively terrible Adam Sandler film
but it represents many of the actor's
worst traits in a story that would have
felt tired in 1988 let alone 2008
Sandler as always plays a
passive-aggressive manchild who weasels
his way into the role of a hero without
much of the prerequisite character depth
or sacrifice hello they don't have a TV
yeah doesn't let him watch TV you didn't
know that I don't know a lot of things
about these kids I wasn't allowed over
here their old man didn't like me
bedtime stories saw Sandler trying his
hand at a family picture which might
explain why the movie feels so neutered
compared to the comedian's other
projects number four best uncut gems
keeping the right material Adam Sandler
can deliver one hell of a gripping
performance
uncut gems finds the actor at the height
of his powers precious black opals
that's what that is
I do my research these guys live near
the whale on mines which primarily red
opals which aren't worth okay the
safty brothers anxiety inducing crime
thriller cast sandler as howard a
jewelry store owner with a gambling
addiction that's left many people vying
for his head what do you want I know I
know I gotta change it I got $21,000 if
she added on to the 19 minutes $40,000
and off scrap the whole bet you have to
hold back I want to make a six way
parlay sell six sixes gay what's the
line go plus four plus one okay
delusionally optimistic and obnoxious
yet likeable Howard isn't that far
removed from many of Sandler's comedic
personas the difference is that uncut
gems drops the character in a world that
has consequences and does not reward
faux bravado uncut gems is not the
easiest of films to sit through but it
is one of Sandler's crowning
achievements as an actor I told you I
was coming
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No number three worst grown ups during
the 2010s
quite a few of Sandler's films have felt
like little more than an excuse to get
the gang back together for a well paid
vacation but the grown ups movies are
the worst offenders my dad took away my
roller skates flashback while the cast
probably had a great time
none of that translates into the final
product what cinema goers got is two
movies that are devoid of tension drive
or any sense of rhythm I hope that car
never gets fixed I don't think it will
I took the spark plugs out nice with
talents like Chris Rock and Salma Hayek
grown-up's is blessed with a solid cast
but refuses to do anything with it
Adam Sandler's grown-up's character can
be summed up as nice or good
unfortunately he doesn't come anywhere
close to funny hey where's saskatchetoon
yeah
number three best happy gilmore a
quintessential Sandler flick that would
encourage many of his subsequent
characters happy gilmore embodies the
actor's trademark brand of comedic
violence without constraints as an
explosive hockey player who ends up
taking the golf world by storm happy is
a truly strange beast of a personality
one who is pretty awful but still
somehow endearing of course partial
credit for Happy's hero status must go
to Christopher MacDonald's turn as the
cartoonishly sinister main villain you
know I saw Doug play yesterday and I
gotta tell you this guy spends more time
in the sand than David Hasselhoff happy
gilmore is an unhinged force of a movie
that while not to everyone's tastes
played a crucial role in cementing
sandler as comedy royalty number two
worst that's my boy
branded with an R rating and co-starring
another SNL alum in Andy Samberg that's
my boy should have been better than many
of Adam Sandler's insomnia curing later
day vehicles I wish you had exploded
that way you won't have to see your
stupid face anymore
notice I created a whole fake life just
like you get away from you your mother's
sick by the way even though Donny Berger
is a more vigorous character than
Sandler's typical popular outcasts in
general that's my boy is inseparable and
lazily crude I am aware that a lot of
people think that this young man is not
really a victim but someone that's
living the ultimate teenage boys fantasy
it blatantly regurgitates the same tired
punchlines without trying to deliver
anything new besides just being a lot
more vulgar the exhausting humor alone
is enough to think that's my boy but the
film also tackles sensitive topics with
all the nuance of well
bottom-of-the-barrel happy madison
production is that the earring that i
gave you after the loverboy concert
yes it is miss mcgarricle number two
best Billy Madison even after more than
two decades of Sandler Billy Madison
still stands out as a refreshingly silly
comedy that makes the best out of the
actors adolescent humour Billy is an
emotionally stunted and penguin
hallucinating manchild who must go back
to school to inherit his father's
company otherwise it will go to the evil
vice president that's not fair Rizzuto
is not a word he's a baseball player
you're cheating would you like to try
the word buzz Billy Madison is one of
Sandler's most surreal movies one that
distills the comedian's brand of
entertainment to its purest and most
unfiltered form like most of the
comedian's earlier flicks Billy Madison
is a loved it or hated affair but it
does capture Sandler at his most honest
and exuberant you know I know 50 first
dates is not on here but that is one of
my favorite Sandler movies along with
happy gilmore Billy Madison and the
wedding singer anyway any idea which
movies we think are the Sandman's best
and worst of all time let's look through
the honourable and dishonourable
mentions and we shall find out there's
no rhyme or reason to this game you're
so good with your dad was with Julia I
was with Maya before the divorces well
before his second divorce he'd already
divorced my mama yeah those were fun
dinners are you going somewhere today
dad said it was black-tie I'm dropping
these with my Albert shoes they
shouldn't go to waste I should sell them
I don't sell his overcoat is in there
too it's very nice you should wear it
it's pink it's cold that's what I call a
cloudy a cool no he's fine buddy I could
go home right now if I wanted to I'm
only staying here because your uncle
Chucky he's afraid to sleep alone it's
true Oh Eric if you don't sleep with me
then I gotta sleep with dr. Hani you
never know with dr. honey what kind of
mood she's gonna be in what's this guy's
name
scuba Steve I like his flippers does he
ever take them off know how much he goes
bowling
they don't make him wear bowling shoes
they let him wear the flippers yes
really
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Jill Jack and Jill is a marvel to behold
my friend Mimi's mom dates poiish may
sound like computer oh I've heard of
this yeah I would do that I just died I
don't know how to use the computer or a
dog or a robot or whatever Hey 2011
comedy a phrase to be used lightly is so
completely incompetent unabashedly
grating and insulting ly formulaic that
it seems to exist solely to elevate
Sandler's other films by association
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Sandler works double duty as an
executive with a newly perfect life and
his sister who ruins it the star plays
Jill as an unlikable caricature whose
comedic depth never rises above the
level of crude fart dispenser and an
annoying voice even with Al Pacino
giving a bizarrely committed performance
Jack and Jill is an abomination on a
scale seldom seen in cinema and I wanted
to tell you number one best punch-drunk
love even in the dumbest of comedies
Adam Sandler's characters usually have
an element of tragedy and frustration to
them I'm looking at your advertisement
for the airline promotion
give away yeah it's hard to understand
because it says in addition to but I
can't exactly understand in addition to
what because there's actually nothing to
add it to in Paul Thomas Anderson's
punch-drunk love however these layers
are brought to the forefront Sandler's
berry is a lonely and beaten down man
who sells novelty items has seven of the
worst siblings ever and miraculously
finds himself in a love story it's a lot
of family must be nice you have brothers
or sisters that must be nice that must
be really really really cool no it's
terrible what's the pudding problem
berries many angry outbursts are not
cathartic or done for laughs they
cumulatively serve as a cry for help
that those around him choose to ignore
or aggravate which is just a liar
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punch-drunk love is a film that could
only have come to be with Adam Sandler
in the lead role and the world is better
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