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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: JOHN TURTURRO STEALS THE SHOW...
Review: This is a re-make of Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town". Though it is not anywhere nearly as good as the original, and Adam Sandler is no Gary Cooper, the original Mr. Deeds, the film is a decent enough production in its own right with some funny moments. The story is about a very nice but naive, small town guy named Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire and writes greeting card poetry as a hobby. He finds out that he has inherited forty billion dollars from a long lost, deceased uncle, who ostensibly had no other known living relative. So, Deeds is off to New York City to see about the administration of his new found mega-bucks. While in New York he becomes the target of the tabloids, and his decent, small town values are made to look foolish, and he is mocked by its more sophisticated denizens. When ambitious journalist, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), goes undercover as a small town girl, setting up a false scenario and identity to meet our new billionaire and boast a journalistic coup, she ultimately finds herself falling in love with Deeds, charmed by his innate goodness and sincerity. Unfortunately, by then, the damage is done. Pete Gallagher is suitably smarmy as Chuck Cedar, the CEO who is looking to take charge of Deeds' media empire. Erick Avari, as Cecil Anderson, an attorney and Chuck Cedar's accomplice, has his own comedic moments. Adam Sandler is, as always, Adam Sandler. He plays the role of Deeds as that of a simpleton and is, at times, funny without being too sophomoric. Winona Ryder is adequate as Babe Bennett but is no comedienne, and she takes a backseat to Jean Arthur, who played the part opposite Gary Cooper in the original version. Moreover, there is absolutely no on screen chemistry between Sandler and Ryder. It is John Turturro, however, who shines in this film. In the role of Emilio Lopez, the deceased uncle's butler, he is truly funny, stealing the show in nearly every scene in which he appears. He is the one true shining star in this otherwise run-of-the-mill remake and the one reason for seeing this film. Look for cameos by Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, and Al Sharpton. If one overlooks the somewhat ham-handed direction by Steven Brill, the unsubtle script by Tim Herlihy, and avoids making comparisons to the film on which this one is based, one will enjoy this movie, if only for John Turturro's hilarious, scene stealing performance.
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Summary: MR. DEEDS DVD
Review: AFTER SEEING "MR. DEEDS" THREE TIMES ON THE BIG SCREEN IT WAS APPARENT THAT I WOULD BE PURCHASING THE DVD UPON RELEASE. EVEN AFTER A FORTH VEIWING THE MOVIE WAS STILL FUNNY AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINNG TO ME. SOMETHING THAT IS ALSO FUNNY TO ME IS WHEN I HEAR SOMEONE SAY HOW MUCH THEY LOVE ADAM SANDLER AND HIS MOVIES, YET THEY DON'T LIKE THIS ONE. "MR. DEEDS" IS ONE OF (IF NOT SIMPLY HIS BEST FILM) SO FAR. IN ADDITION TO SANDLER.. A GREAT CAST WAS FORMED. YOU'VE GOT WINONA RYDER IN A DELIGHTFUL PERFORMANCE, JOHN TURTURRO STEALING SCENE AFTER SCENE, PETER GALLAGHER IN A NASTY ROLE AND A HILARIOUS ALLEN COVERT. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THIS FILM WAS REMADE FROM A FILM THAT WAS MADE IN THE 1930's (MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN) DURING THE DEPRESSION ERA. THIS 2002 REMAKE IS EVERYTHING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND MORE. MY THOUGHT IS LETS NOT COMPARE THIS WITH THE 30's CLASSIC. LETS JUST LAUGH AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. ALL IT TAKES IS A SENSE OF HUMOR. DVD FEATURES: WIDESCREEN / 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL / COMMENTARY / DELETED SCENCES / THREE FEATURETTES / DEEDS GRETTING CARDS (which can be emailed to friends ect.) / DAVE MATTHEWS BAND MUSIC VIDEO / FILMOGRAPHIES / TRAILORS / & MORE
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