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I have a beef with Adam Sandler dating back to 1993. He came to my college to do a stand-up show, and it was awful. As much as I'd enjoyed some of his "Saturday Night Live" characters, his reputation was quite definitely in the toilet. I saw him in Airheads and Mixed Nuts, at some point, but neither qualifies for An Adam Sandler Movie. Nothing else really appealed to me, and until today I'd still managed to avoid all of his star vehicles. I'm eagerly anticipating Punch-Drunk Love, hailed as the thinker's Adam Sandler movie, but I've finally scene a thoughtless one.
I'm not disappointed with Mr. Deeds because it isn't funny. The parts that are funny are often quite funny. It's everything else that's so bad. Deeds is a sympathetic and funny character in many of the same ways as "SpongeBob SquarePants", but there's so much unnecessary drama that keeps interfering with the humor. Drama's not the worst thing in the world, but these are checklist plot points that are poorly written and provide a strange set of crises.