He plays a local Hawaiian here, with a slew of kids he's trying to control, to no avail, of course. Speaking of the same old song-and-dance, Rob Schneider also plays the same character, a half-wit with either with a Cajun accent (See: The Waterboy and Little Nicky) or an islander/other foreign accent (See: Big Daddy and this movie). His performance is O.K., but it's the same old song-and-dance we've seen before. He still has the goofy nervousness of his previous characters and I can't see him as a ladies man in this type of character at all. In this movie, though, they try to make him into a "player" of sorts, wining and dining these tourists, one week at a time. Basically, the only thing that changes about his characters in these movies is his name. He plays the same dopey guy in all of his recent movies.ok, so he was the son of Satan in Little Nicky, but he was still a doofus. The idea behind the movie is a good one, but it gets bogged down by Sandler. It's Memento for her and Groundhog Day for him, which is kind of cool. The movie is a weird blend of Memento, Groundhog Day and any recent Sandler movie. He discovers that she lost her short-term memory in a horrific car accident so he decides to try and win her heart every day, even though she'll forget him in the morning. After meeting her at a local diner, and hitting it off with her, he decides to see her there for breakfast the next morning, and when he gets there, she has no idea who he is. He's never dated a local woman, and never planned to, until he meets Lucy Whitmore (Barrymore). This is the way Roth, a local Hawaiian, avoids commitment, as we see in his first scene where he pretends to be a secret agent to get out of spending more time with a tourist. The movie opens up with a weird segment with a bunch of single women describing their trip to Hawaii, where they all have one thing in common, Henry Roth (Sandler) romancing them until they go back home. His new movie, 50 First Dates, is the most blunt chick-flick he's made to date, and although it isn't too bad, I just wish we had the old Sandler back (See: Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore). But after he hit it big with The Waterboy, you could slowly see the chick-flick aspect filtering into his movies (See: Big Daddy, Little Nicky, Mr. All of his movies have him chasing a hot girl, but the focus used to be on his zany antics, not his budding relationship with him and his female co-star. Slowly but surely, Adam Sandler movies are turning from in-your-face comedies to chick flicks. It's ironic because, lately, he's been nothing like those two charaters. It's ironic that Sandler's production company is called Happy Madison Productions, after his first two movies Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison.
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