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Summary: A Kinder, Gentler, Adam Sandler...?
Review: Let's get the obligatory "shoplifting" joke out of the way: Winona Ryder steals every scene she's in! Ok, now that that's out of my system....
Mr. Deeds is the story of Longfellow deeds, a small-town nice guy who owns a Pizza Parlor, aspires to one day write greeting cards for Hallmark, and spends most of his time doing good deeds (Pun intended...) for his fellow townsfolk, such as carrying slow-moving old men across the street to speed them on their way. Well, one day, deeds finds out his Uncle, who he never even knew about, has died and bequeathed him a $40 Billion Dollar fortune. Thatt's pretty much it, plotwise. Ryder plays a tabloid reporter who pretends to be a damsel-in-distress to get the scoop on Deeds, and the two of course, fall in love. Sandler's usual suspects all appear, including Steve Buscemi as "Crazy-Eyes", and John Turturro is hilarious as Deeds' Spanish Butler, who is "Berry Berry esneeky...". He's the REAL scene-stealer here. Sandler seems to be trying something different here, as this is the first movie i can recall seeing him in where he wasn't a loathsome creep. (He DOES beat up a few people here, but they all deserved it.) Deeds isn't gonna sweep the Oscars, but it IS pretty damned funny, so if you want some low-brow laughs, give it a look.
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Summary: 'Wicked' Funny
Review: I must say--though I love Adam Sandler's work--I was not excited to see this movie. Maybe it was because his last two attempts were so disappointing. No, 'Big Daddy' was not terrible, but it wasn't up to Sandler's standards either. However, 'Little Nicky' was by far the worst film he ever made. What he was thinking, I don't know, but it put me off this time around. Luckily enough, 'Mr. Deeds' is the beginning--I hope--of Sandler's turn-around. The lack of chemistry between he and Rider didn't matter to me, mostly because, well, this isn't a drama. By far, this is his best movie in the past several years, though it falls short to classics such as 'Happy Gilmore' and 'The Waterboy'. I found myself laughing for a great majority of the film. 'Big Daddy' deprived me of that, and I can only recall laughing out loud during 'Little Nicky' twice. This, though, is filled with stupid gags and hilarious situations and scenes that makes you say this: Adam's back! (I hope.) ... Let's hope his career stops fluctuating and he can continue to soar high as the best teen comic today.
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Summary: Hysterical
Review: I went to see this movie with a friend of mine not knowing what to expect. I had looked at the reviews, and found that it was only given ½ star. We arrived at the theatre and were lucky to get tickets. The show before us was completely sold out. We sat down and the movie began. From the get-go everyone in the theatre was laughing. This movie was astounding. I am surprised and a little angry the it only got ½ star. It deserved much better. My friend and I left the theatre and every now and then one of us would start laughing uncontrollably. This is one of Adam Sandler's best pieces yet. I would highly recommend it to ages 13 and up, men and women. Although you can see the ending of the movie, well, not exactly, it doesn't ruin anything at all. As soon as it comes out, I am going to buy it. It is one well worth being in my collection. If you can, GO SEE IT!
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Summary: Not Sandler's best movie to date......
Review: I have seen many of Mr. Sandler's movies.....Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Big Daddy, the Wedding Singer & BIlling Madison to be more specific. At the end of the day I found the movie to be very humorous, as most of Sandler's flicks are, but the movie doesn't hold up vs. his prior works I had seen (I think due to the concept.) The movie, in case you don't know, is about a guy from a small New Hampshire town and how he inherits $40 billion from an Uncle he never met. A reporter seduces him via lies, he falls in love with her........everything they do is in the tabloids......she finally confesses.......and, at the end of the day she begs for forgiveness after he leaves and donates his $40 billion to the United Negro College Fund. I won't ruin the ending but the movie is very straightforward, it has some good laughs but, as I said before, I don't think that this movie holds up vs. Mr. Sandler's prior work. I love Adam Sandler because his movies attempt to bring out the inner child in adults through great delivery of jokes, pranks, humor and his mocking of the circumstances we seem to get ourselves into. One of the good things about his movies is that adults and children can watch them together and both get tons of laughs without dirty language and offensive material. Mr. Sandler and his writers seem to interlace some adult humor into their films, which most kids would miss, but it definitely makes his movies more enjoyable for the adult movie goer.
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Summary: Deeds is about done.
Review: This movie is about a man[Adam Sandler] who's dead great uncle leaves him 40 bill.$$$ and then tries to run his great uncle's company in witch he knows nothing about. For the first time in his life he falls in love with a girl reporter [Rider] her boss wants a scoop on Mr. Deeds, she tells [Sandler] she works as a school nurse, later on in the movie things get a little sticky and she falls in love with him. There are some funny sceans but most of it is really silly.
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Summary: SANDLER IS CHARMING. RYDER IS BEAUTIFUL.
Review: "MR. DEEDS" WAS A FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY, WITH FINE PERFORMANCES THROUGH OUT. LONGFELLOW DEEDS OWNS HIS OWN PIZZA PLACE. HE INHERITS 40 BILLION DOLLARS FROM HIS UNCLE. A MAN HE NEVER KNEW. WHEN THE TABLOIDS GET INVOLVED THEY ARE SURE TO MAKE HIM OUT TO BE A FOOL. BUT THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THE GREEDY INVESTOR THAT TRYS TO BUY DEEDS INHERITANCE AND SALE IT PIECE BY PIECE. ONLY OUT TO PROFIT FOR HIMSELF, NOT CARING ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE'S JOBS. ADAM SANDLER GIVES A VERY CHARMING PERFORMANCE AND WINONA RYDER LOOKS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN EVER. THE STORY HERE HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, BUT I HAD NO PROBLEM SEEING IT AGAIN. IT WAS DONE THIS TIME WITH STEVEN BRILL-IANCE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S CLOSER TO -WEDDING SINGER- WITHOUT A HINT OF -NICKY-.
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Summary: Sandler's usual role and usual movie
Review: Didn't see this film and don't plan on it. I think it will make a lot of money but not sure why. Sure Sandler is some-what talented but all his roles are exactly the same. He has a big mouth, he's a jerk yet sweet that everybody loves and even get together to support by the end. Oh plus every movie he's in has so little effort put into it that they just choose to have the title of the main character or if not it has reference to the role. Like Big Daddy,Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison and now Mr.Deeds. When it comes time to write the script for another Adam Sandler movie they probably just pull out Happy Gilmore to use it as a source and re-write it, change the characters names and the plot and there you go....more money.
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Summary: What the.........!?
Review: Here's something you don't see everyday: an expectation that a movie will be good based on who stars in it being completely shafted. Actually, I get that feeling quite a bit, but never like this. Adam has been in some great movies (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, and, despite what everyone else seems to say about it, I loved Little Nicky). However, this movie is complete garbage, and those responsible for this Godforsaken piece of crap should be burned at the stake. I guess this was supposed to be based on an earlier version of this movie (Mr. Deeds goes to town or whatever), and I hope to God that movie is at least 100X better than this waste of space. Let me get right to the point. This movie tanked from start to finish. Few movies have accomplished this, but this one does so as if doing so is a no-brainer. What I remember of the beginning is lame and boring, the freaks that Adam hangs around must have some sort of mental retardation (if you've seen the movie, you know I'm not talking about stupidity that is funny, but just plain retardation that sucks), and H-O-L-Y CRAP Winona Rider is in the movie; nuff said! The best part of the moive (and I say best only to emphasize how bad this movie is) is when Rider's character kicks the overweight pizza store manager in the crotch, and she says "What are you kickin there for? I ain't got no b*lls!" Geeeezzzzz.......I couldn't even try to laugh at this nonsense; what was Adam thinking? By the way, Adam is very mellow in this movie (except for a couple of scenes where he beats someone up, but it's not even near funny this time), just like in Waterboy, but without the lousy accent (thank God!). He writes poems for greeting cards for Christ's sake!!! How much more of a loser can you be? I guess he's trying to model himself after Jason Biggs (which is about as low as you can go). Just get me a gun so I can put this movie and myself out of our misery!
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Summary: Sandler's Deeds
Review: Adam Sandler films, I never know what to expect. Some I really like, some I really hate. Mr Deeds, something of a remake of the 1936 Frank Capra film, was entertaining enough while I was watching, but it's nothing great.
Adam Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds. He's a kind small town guy, he owns a pizza store and hopes to one day be in the greeting card business (though he hasn't quite got the hang of greeting card poetry yet). Then one day, right out of the blue, he is visited by a couple of businessmen. It seems that his great uncle, Preston Blake, has died trying to climb Mount Everest and by relation has passed his forty billion dollar media empire to Deeds. Deeds heads to New York with Blake's staff to sign the papers, and when he gets there he lives the high life, falls in love and gets hounded by the paparazzi.
It started off all right, I thought, like a parody rather than a remake, all silly and light hearted, and Adam Sandler is likeable enough as the kind Deeds. But it kind of goes downhill from there, if anywhere. It's not a parody, I discovered. I don't know what it is. I kind of wonder who this was aimed at. It's not a faithful remake of "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" (it's too silly for that), but it's too much of a remake to be a proper Adam Sandler film. It's something of an oddity. Some of the jokes, though I knew they were jokes, I just didn't find funny (like the frostbitten foot). The romantic plot (which takes up most of the second half of the film) really didn't grab me at all, and just dragged things out. Adam Sandler and Winona Rider (who plays his love interest, a paparazzi) don't have any chemistry, and the plot that brought them together isn't very likely or likeable.
The special features on DVD are not too shabby. There are a couple of gags in the deleted scenes which I reckon are funnier than some of the stuff that made it in the movie, actually.
You could probably do worse than rent "Mr Deeds", but you could probably do a lot better.
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Summary: It just didn't hit the mark
Review: Mr. Deeds is a film starring goofy but likeable comedian Adam Sandler. It is also a remake of a 1936 Frank Capra film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (starring Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds). I also found out it was made as a TV series in 1969.
Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a charismatic Ted Turner/Rupert Murdoch type of media mogul, dies in a mountain climbing expedition in his eighties and leaves behind a media empire, 40 billion dollars and no will. The CEO of his company (Blake Media), Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher), institutes a search to find the nearest living relative which turns out to be a small town pizzeria owner (and amateur would-be author of greeting card lines) called Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler).
Chuck and his lawyer Cecil Anderson (Erick Avari) travels to the small town of Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire in a fancy helicopter to locate Deeds. Deeds is excited by the good news and agrees to accompany the men back to New York City to claim his fortune. The whole town turns up to wave him goodbye.
Over in New York, Deeds' affable and good-hearted nature charms everyone except snobbish members of society and cynical news reporter and host of the "Inside Access" TV show, Mac McGrath (Jared Harris), who is determined to ridicule the new multi-billionaire. He gets show producer "Babe" Bennett (Winona Ryder) and her assistant Marty (Allen Covert) to dig out some dirt on Deeds.
"Babe" endears herself to Deeds by posing as a small town girl called Pam Dawson from "Winchestertonfieldville" working as a school nurse. Soon they start falling in love. But will Deeds find out that "Pam" is not what she seems. Also, why is Chuck so eager to get Deeds to sell his shares in Blake Media to him?
No doubt this is intended to be one of those "feel good" comedies where you can't help but be enthralled by the corny lines and situations, but it didn't hit the mark with me. Deeds is supposed to be innocent and naive and with a heart of gold, but Adam Sandler didn't come across as that "innocent and naive" and I couldn't help feeling that he was mocking the role rather than playing it. The shareholders' meeting towards the end didn't really work for me either, as Deeds' "speech" didn't strike me as believable or capable of turning the room sentiment around.
There are some interesting characters and cameo roles, including Emilio Lopez (John Turturro) the "sneaky" butler with the foot [...], "Crazy Eyes" (Steve Buscemi) and John McEnroe playing himself.
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