So tomorrow we get the latest comedy from Adam Sandler called You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, and I really have no idea if it will be good or not. I’ve laughed at a few of the trailers, but overall, I’m not really busting down any doors to get to the theater.
It just got me thinking about how Sandler has made some great movies, but lately they’ve just fallen flat. I miss the old days when I used to look forward to his next film, so I decided to compile a quick Top 5 list of my favorite Adam Sandler movies.
And the fifth one was actually hard to come up with. I almost went with a Top 4, but it just sounded ridiculous.
So here we go!
My Top 5 Adam Sandler Movies
#5 – Tie between Big Daddy and The Waterboy.
I really thought these were just okay, but I remember laughing pretty hard at The Waterboy. I think if I were to just come up with Sandler movies that were “favorites”, neither of these would be on that list. But they were both decent and funny, and I needed to round out the Top 5.
#4 – Punch Drunk Love
Now I don’t recall much about this movie, it came out in 2002 and I’ve never seen it a second time, but I DO remember being very impressed with Sandler’s work in a film that was more of a romantic drama than a comedy. At the time I thought it was a very, very good movie.
#3 – Spanglish
Another turn with the drama instead of outright comedy, Spanglish was a fun little movie in which Sandler wasn’t necessarily the star, but his role as a father and husband who starts to fall for his housekeeper was fantastic. It was an overall great movie anyways, with awesome acting by Tea Leoni, Paz Vega and especially Cloris Leachman.
The scenes at the end with Leachman trying to comfort and give advice to Leoni was absolutely brilliant.
#2 – Happy Gilmore
In my opinion, the greatest comedy Sandler ever did was Happy Gilmore. It was funny from the start and had so many great moments that you lost track of them. Bob Barker especially was hilarious, but stuff like fighting with alligators, rhyming with Shooter, Ben Stiller’s role as the nursing home “warden” and others were just perfect.
It’s a Sandler movie that I’ll end up watching anytime I see it on.
#1 – 50 First Dates
Don’t ask me exactly why it appeals to me so much, but 50 First Dates is my all-time favorite Adam Sandler movie. I think it’s the story itself that made the film what it was. Yeah, there was goofiness all over the place, which is typical of a Sandler picture, but there was such a warm, heartfelt story at the center of it.
Drew Barrymore has recurring amnesia from a car accident, and can’t remember anything that happened the day before. Everytime she wakes up in the morning, it’s the same day for her. And it’s been going on for years.
So Sandler meets her, falls in love but has to work through the fact that she can’t remember him the next day. Or can she?
Like I said…I just really love the plot of this film. The way she wakes up everyday having to learn it all over again…it was just beautiful. Inside this little romantic comedy was a great message about being dedicated to someone no matter what.
What about you?
What are your favorite Adam Sandler movies?
I know there is a huge liking for Billy Madison and The Wedding Singer, and they would probably have been good ones for my list, but I never saw The Wedding Singer and don’t remember much about Madison.
So do you agree with my list? What are your top 5 ?
I gotta say – I’m very proud of the fact that I have yet to watch an Adam Sandler movie! Yay for me.
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I absolutely do not get Sandler humor nor the attraction people have with him. I don’t think he is funny at all. Just not my think.
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Ape: I had no idea you didn’t like Adam Sandler. You know, I only have a few comedies in my DVD collection: 50 First Dates, So I Married an Ax Murderer, The Wedding Singer, Legally Blonde and Napoleon Dynamite. I don’t know, I am extremely picky about comedies and usually just don’t enjoy them in general, and two of my DVD’s are of Adam Sandler’s movies.
Mike: 50 First Dates is my favorite of his movies too. How strange. I still have to see, Punch Drunk Love, and Water Boy. I actually like that he is breaking into drama. Spanglish was great.
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So I Married An Axe Murderer is a fantastically funny movie.
Axe Murderer is likely my all-time favorite comedy aside from Swingers.
Never saw Swingers either.
I loved Steven Wright in Axe, “this is the artificial horizon…it’s better than the real horizon.” rotfl
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I really don’t get Adam Sandler, he just seems too childish to me.
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Swingers is a must-see
That settles it then.
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@Ape -Swingers is def a must see.
ScottyDub’s Top 5 Sandler movies:
5. Reign on Me -wow great role for him
4. 50 First Dates- Love this one
3. The Wedding Singer
2. Billy Madison -classic ’silly’ Sandler
1. Happy Gilmore -find your ‘happy’ place
Honorable mention: The longest Yard and Big Daddy
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What’s a penguin like you doing out here? – Billy Madison – makes me giggle every time
@ Ape – Axe Murderer has so many brilliant lines, quotes and moments from it that you can’t really do it justice.
“My name is John Johnson, but everyone here calls me Vicky.”
“I believe I ordered the LARGE cappuccino?? HELLO!”
“HEAD! PANTS! NOW!”
I like the his old movie The Wedding Singer..Put it in the list.
I still say that: “I believe I ordered the LARGE cappuccino” all the time…
It’s really weird that some of you guys haven’t seen his movies or some of his bigger movies. Like surreal.
My list would be a lot different from Mike’s I think. Just off the top of my head I’d probably say mine would be:
5. Reign Over Me
4. The Wedding Singer or 50 First Dates
3. Billy Madison
2. The Waterboy
1. Happy Gilmore
Wow, two of you recommend Reign Over Me…I hadn’t heard great things about that one, but maybe we need to give it a shot.
Yeah, Reign Over Me was surprisingly good. Adam Sandler gave one of his best performances ever…hands down.
@ Jason – don’t be surprised – some of us just don’t like or get that type of humor. I really don’t think he is remotely funny and don’t get the appeal.
Axe Murderer has a ton of great lines to quote, which I do frequently. Every time we go to dinner with friends and the check comes, we start up the “no, no, no, no, no…”
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“Negatory good buddy, NEGATORY.”
ROTFL
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. I share the same fave Adam Sandler movie. I love 50 first date. I guess its because of Hawaii, the Brother Iz song (Over the Rainbow) and the story as a whole.
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Heya Xeldec…welcome to Pop Critics, and great to see a like-mind when it comes to 50 First Dates
Hope to see you around more often!
I watched all his movies. And i love his jokes. He is funny. The next jim carrey ill say.
1. Billy Madison – his all time great.
2. Happy Gilmore
3. Waterboy
4. Wedding Singer
5. Zohan!
=)
Adam Sandler is classic, though he does his best work as long as he’s not straying from his main expertise, which is casual, unassuming comedies
I liked Happy Gilmore and Clicked the most… wedding singer was right there as well..
Seems most are agree that The Wedding Singer should be in the list. That’s my favorite one.