![]() This is a kinder and gentler Adam Sandler. To be sure, there's projectile vomiting on a vast scale in an opening scene of the movie, but it's performed by a walrus, not one of the human characters, and the walrus feels a lot better afterward. He reveals the warm side of his personality, and leaves behind the hostility, anger and gross-out humor. The movie is sort of an experiment for Sandler. They work well together, as they showed in " The Wedding Singer" they have the same tone of smiling, coy sincerity. ![]() Still, this isn't a psychiatric docudrama but a lighthearted romantic comedy, and the premise works to provide Adam Sandler and Barrymore with a sweet story. Seems to me that short-term memory loss doesn't work on a daily timetable, but is more like the affliction of "10-Second Tom," a character in the movie who reboots every 10 seconds. Is this possible? I'd like to bring in Oliver Sacks for a second opinion.
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