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We were with a teen --- a thirteen-year-old to be more precise --- and she picked it.
You didn't miss nuthin'.
It was full of crass and tiresome vulgar jokes aimed at teenagers, until the second half turns into a sweet It's a Wonderful Life remake aimed at adults about appreciating what you've got in the present. The latter is probably not worth the embarassment of the former. I guess a shorter summary would be to say that it's an Adam Sandler film.
A few notable things.
- Typically cheap and manipulative use of pop music on the soundtrack. Original scoring is saved only for when somebody is dying.
- In flashback scenes, they dress Julie Kavner and Henry Winkler in some horrible orange latex masks that look like Fonzie and Brenda costumes. I swear, the thought of these masks is still disturbing me.
- It's a universe pretty much entirely populated by bimbos. Even extras crossing the screen forty feet in the background came right off the set of Married, with Children
- A snotty 10-year-old kid next door that inexplicably serves as Adam Sandler's rival is conspicuously outfitted in Mets trademarked stuff, the filmmakers seeming to suggest that, "Of course the kid is a two-bit brat, he's a Mets fan." Reason enough to steer clear of this film. Or anything else these filmmakers touch.
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