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Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) has commitment issues; that's why he likes to hook up with girls on holiday - by the time he gets bored with them they're on a plane to the mainland. Lucy (Drew Barrymore) can't remember if she has commitment issues - actually she can't remember anything new since she lost her ability for short-term memory in a car accident.
Henry meets Lucy and likes her immediately. When he hears about her condition, he thinks she's the perfect girl because he can break up with her whenever he's ready and she won't even remember him the next day. Henry starts to fall in love with Lucy and needs the help of his friend Ula (Rob Schneider), Lucy's father (Blake Clark) and her brother (Sean Astin) to find new ways to make Lucy fall in love with him every day.
The first 15 minutes of this movie are so awful (unless you're a fan of massive quantities of walrus vomit, a she-man making sexual innuendos, or bad shark-attack jokes). After that, things start to get better (thank god), although the she-male bit never gets any funnier and neither do Ula's kids. The movie has to work really hard to make you forget the lackluster opening (and it almost manages to do that).
The movie is about this girl who wakes up every morning with no memory of what happened the day before - wait a minute, I forgot - we already talked about that part.
What's worth remembering?
- The sweet things Lucy's family does to accommodate her illness (although
betting on a football game that you've seen before is not a very nice way
to get out of doing dishes)
- The importance of reading, painting, and building waffle houses
- The ideas Henry comes up with to shake things up
- The chemistry between Adam and Drew
- Cute walrus interactions
- And kudos to Sean Astin for taking "thith thilly" role
It's great that some of the things Henry tries to woe Lucy don't work. And before you think - hey, she doesn't remember anything - why doesn't he just keep doing the same thing over and over every day (this thought did cross our minds), but that would make a pretty short movie.
When it's good, it's delightful and charming, with enough laughs to make you want to go on 50 dates with Henry and Lucy. When it's bad, it makes you want to run for the nearest exit and stick your head in a shark tank. It's too bad they took what could have been another terrific romantic comedy and mucked it up with bits out of Sandler/Schneider juvenile comedy 101.
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