50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition)

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Cute, tender... but irritating!, 2010-03-08
Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) is a womanizing veterinarian working on Oahu and preying on visiting tourists. Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) is a school teacher who suffered a traumatic head injury that results in her keeping her long-term memories prior to the accident, but wipes her short=term memories clean every 24 hours. br / br /Roth falls for her, but finds himself having to get her to like him every day... 50+ first dates! Sandler and Barrymore demonstrate a mutual chemistry that makes you believe they like each other! And the secondary characters in this film, from Whitmore's father and steriod-using brother to br / br /This is a cute romantic comedy, but Adam Sandler's crude banter got a bit tedious for a character supposed to be tender and supportive. This persona fits him perfectly in, say, Happy Gilmore. However, it is a leap to expect that a philander changes his lifestyle so abruptly. Ah, Hollywood! And there is a strangeness with the secondary characters in this film. Lucy Whitmore's father and steriod-using brother, as well as the employees at the cafe where Lucy goes every Sunday (and for Lucy, now every day is that Sunday)\) are so caring and protective of Lucy. Henry Roth's friends, however, are crude or... strange. br / br /Still, it was a fun movie to watch, and the ending is surprising and upbeat.

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50 first dates, 2010-02-11
This movie is hilarious. I t will have you on the floor rolling around in laughter in no time. Wonderful movie. Adam Sandler is a great actor and producer. You will thoroughly enjoy this movie.

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50 First Dates [Blu-ray], 2010-02-09
Henry Roth lives in a Hawaiian paradise with the company of endless women with no strings attached. This is until he meets Lucy Whitmore. Both Henry and Lucy enjoy the company of each other and feels the start of a serious relationship occurring. Approaching Lucy the next day, Henry is confused when Lucy fails to recognise him. This is the moment Henry discovers that Lucy actually suffers from short term memory loss and can't remember each individual day. Henry won't let this stop him and is prepared to make her fall in love with him all over again, each and every day. The plot, even if somewhat contrived, is clever and in the context of the movie believable: there is a good beginning, middle and surprisingly satisfying end. This is quite simply a very enjoyable movie. It's not, perhaps, a great movie, but it is fun and leave you feeling pleasantly content.

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More great Drew/Adam chemistry, 2010-01-21
Very well done. A funny movie with some great messages. And of course a great value from Amazon.

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Would have become a decent drama, 2009-09-26
50 first dates was one of the big romantic comedies of this year. It contains big actors and it had major marketing behind it. I'm pretty neutral when it comes to Adam Sandler because he has couple of decent comedies but many very bad also. Drew Barrymore has convinced me just once in a good comedy (The Wedding Singer), and that one time she acted with Adam Sandler so I started watching this movie with little expectation. Movie was following pretty normal comedy line. It was made with certain formula, kind a like that it have to please a certain amount of audience. In itself it's not that bad thing, the movie was sometime funny but it didn't bring anything new to the comedy field. Also it shows that makers have to put a brake on some of the jokes just to keep the movie in that certain formula.(when they learn to make movies in more artistic way and less with dollar bills in their eyes -- I bet that the movies would be much better and they would have as much as audience than they have now, or ever more?) But now, back to the review: I found 50 First dates a bit of sad movie. There are couples of things witch made tears in my eyes and made me feel sorry for the character. It might have been better idea to make a drama from the movie because it handles such a `dramatic?' subject. Memory loss might have been a funny idea in a text but at the latest at the filming the makers have understood that it really isn't that funny. So the result is that the movie is little confusing mixing basic Adam Sandler humor to the dramatic things. Somebody should have just leash Sandler and make an effort to make the movie a decent drama. Although movie shows couple of pretty funny characters and couple of over top ones. There are also funny animal jokes and overall the movie runs pretty fluently. Idea of the film is interesting and not so often used. Adam Sandler is making a little tamed version of his usual `goofy' character and is giving an ok performance. Drew Barrymore is a real actress and gives her character a little more deep and realistic interpretation spiced with little sad tone. I liked it. Because this is a `Adam Sandler' movie it of course includes a funny beating scene and Rob Schneider in a funny minor role.