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63
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Offers dumb fun without apology.
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60
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
This escapist comedy is so cheerfully outlandish that it's hard to resist, and so good-hearted that it's genuinely endearing.
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60
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Washington Post Rita Kempley
The Perrier of dumb-and-dumber movies, an effervescent idiot's delight that burbles from the wellspring of silliness inside star Adam Sandler's head.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
An unabashed wallow in the moronic humor of Adam Sandler.
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50
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
As funny as it can be, this underdawg comedy isn't much more than Sandler's golf-oriented "Happy Gilmore" with a Cajun accent. [6 November 1998, p. 10E]
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40
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Los Angeles Times John Anderson
Follows a leadenly predictable path that will be more than familiar to anyone who's seen a recent sports movie, or any Sandler movie.
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40
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Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Another film about . . . a cretinous, grating loser.
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25
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Sandler is making a tactical error when he creates a character whose manner and voice has the effect of fingernails on a blackboard, and then expects us to hang in there for a whole movie.
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25
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New York Daily News
Working a lisping Southern accent that sounds like Truman Capote on Seconal, Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, a swamp-dwelling Cajun. [6 November 1998, p. 56]
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16
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Becomes yet another lame sports farce.
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