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- The plot threads can be a little hard to follow, especially since most of them revolve around two unseen characters who are dead before the story even begins, but Sandler and Spade’s partnership gives the whole enterprise enough emotional grounding to make up for it.
- 42The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe Do-Over is a de facto R-rated movie for Sandler, with the attendant bad language and sex jokes, but most of the faux-naughty stuff seems like an afterthought. The jokes that work best fill in the sad details of Charlie’s life.
- Would The Do-Over be a spectacular triumph if it’s two stars had played the material relatively straight? Probably not. But the terrible jokes wouldn’t have got in the way of all that plot.
- 40The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanDespite an idiocy metastasized into the marrow of its script impervious to any radiation, there is, as with many of Sandler’s productions, at least something of an upbeat quality to its reprehensibility.
- 33ConsequenceCollin BrennanConsequenceCollin BrennanThe Do-Over isn’t Sandler at his best, but it’s also not quite as putrid as what we’ve come to expect from him lately.
- It’s just as predictably mind-numbing and tedious as any other comedy Sandler has attached his name to post-“Funny People.”
- 16IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichThe Do-Over is atrocious, but it's atrocious in different ways than any of Adam Sandler's previous comedies.
- 12RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAlmost every female character is there to be screwed or to screw the guys over. Or both. This is how Sandler’s brand has always portrayed their female characters, but it’s just increasingly depressing.
- 0Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThere are comedies that make you double over in laughter, and there are comedies that are eerily unfunny to the point where you start thinking about a class-action suit.
- 0The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichBy now, it's clear that every Adam Sandler movie is dada of the high-concept, low-hanging-fruit variety, in which the Happy Madison stock company uses filmmaking (loosely termed) as an excuse to take an extended tropical vacation.