Review phim thats my boy

While still in his teens, Donny (Adam Sandler) fathered a son, Todd (Andy Samberg), and raised him as a single parent until Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years, Todd's world comes crashing down on the eve of his wedding when an uninvited Donny suddenly shows up. Trying desperately to reconnect with his son, Donny is now forced to deal with the repercussions of his bad parenting skills. Co-starring Leighton Meester and featuring incredible cameos from a cavalcade of stars including Susan Sarandon, Vanilla Ice and James Caan. 2012 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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To date this is one of the worst movie i've ever watched, and without a doubt, Sandler's worst. Try to watch it as far as i could, but dirty language, and gestures dominate the scenes so much that one would rather opt for an xxx movie instead of wasting time with this movie. Steer away from this and aave your time and hard earned money.

If you liked Sandler before movies like grown ups etc - you will love this. Don't listen to other reviews, you will laugh hard if you are 40 or under. Btw it is not worth 24 bucks to buy but then nothing really is nowadays

After "jack and Jill" this is a return to form (of sort) for Adam Sandler. Its far from his best material, but it has a few funny moments.Hopefully his next films continues the trend of improvement. 2.5 out of 5

Bộ phim kể về chiến tích lẫy lừng của một câu bé (Adam Sandler thủ vai) khi đã làm giáo viên của mình có thai và rồi tống thẳng giáo viên ấy vào tù vì tội giao cấu với trẻ em. Mọi chuyện rắc rối bắt đầu khi cậu nhóc với chiến tích lẫy lừng ấy trở thành một người đàn ông trưởng thành và biết được tin con trai của mình chuẩn bị làm đám cưới. Với trách nhiệm của người cha, anh đến thăm con trai mình và mọi tai nạn và rắc rối bắt đầu...

Seems every movie Sandler does these days gets hated on. People saying this is the worst movie ever made in history...really? You people must not have seen many movies. Regardless of what Sandler does the rest of his career its now popular to point out how it sucks and not as funny as his old movies. I enjoyed this movie, laughing out loud several times. Sandler does a great job playing the father. The bachelor party scenes are epic, really feel for the characters. Uncle Vanny? Hilarious. At no point in this movie did I think "oh man this is the worst thing I've seen in my life." Had good feeling, good comedy, a solid entry to Sandlers recent works. Much much better than the one where he played his sister.

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10/10

Sandler's made a couple of stinkers lately, but this one rocked!

And why did it rock? Because Sandler went back to his simple, old formula...giant man-child refuses to grow up! He never really impresses me all that much when he tries to get serious, but remember Billy Madison? Happy Gilmore? The same giant man-child who refuses to grow up formula works again! To all the people out there bashing this movie, pi-- off. If you're not a fan of toilet humor, then no, you're probably not going to like this movie. But if you're an Adam Sandler fan who loves his earlier stuff, this one is right up there with Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore! Hilarious! And Nick Swardson, of course, is hysterical as always! A perfect ten out of ten for me!

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9/10

Hilarious and energizing! When it was over I left SMILING and happy

Clearly, then , this movie isn't for everybody. If you're not a true Adam Sandler fan, then do yourself a favor and don't go. Do the rest of us a favor and don't moan and write about how shocked and disgusted you were. Do something else, for goodness sakes! I laughed out loud. I loved the jokes- this is Sandler's funniest movie in years. I liked his "serious" stuff like "Punch Drunk" and "Spanglish"- but I love the raunchy, over-the-top comedies. That's what I go to an Adam Sandler movie for.

I can't give a rationale for why this movie delighted me so much. Can't do it. I just know I thought it was hilarious. And the audience I was in (a small town with a large university) laughed and whooped throughout. And for what it's worth, many of the guffaws and whoops were female, as near as I could tell.

I see one or two movies a week. Lately we seem to have a movie dry spell (in my view). I left the theater tonight actually smiling a huge silly-ass grin. I was uplifted, energized, and felt really, really good.

If you can find this kind of humor funny, check this movie out. This is a particularly well done rendition of whatever it is we should call Sandler humor. I LOVED it!

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10/10

Why the hate

Like i can understand why snowflakes will hate this but the people that dont find everything and anything offensive would love this movie its hilarious and one of Sandlers best movies

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Funniest movie of the year!

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In the 1990s, Adam Sandler starred in three of the funniest, most juvenile comedies of all time: Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and Big Daddy. Despite being destroyed by critics, all three of these movies went on to gain big cult followings and, in my opinion, hold up extremely well today. In the decade that followed, Sandler went on to produce films through Happy Madison Productions at a rapid rate, generally one or more a year. The quality of these varied, but the worst ones were those that simply tried to replicate either story beats or gags from his hits from the 90s. With this year's That's My Boy, Sandler went in a direction none of his previous Happy Madison Productions had gone before: a definitely not-for-the-kids, hard R-rated comedy. Even if this may have contributed to the poor box office performance of That's My Boy, it also made it the funniest movie of the year and Sandler's best work in over ten years. That's My Boy isn't rated R simply for a few F-bombs or a few crude comments, it's rated R for pretty much everything (except violence). This is an audaciously dirty flick, one that opens by pushing the envelope and never lets up. In the first ten minutes alone, the filmmakers basically declare war on good taste and do their best to go for the filthy at almost every opportunity from that point on. It's almost as if Sandler and friends kept a huge notebook of gags they knew were too out there for their previous PG-13 efforts and decided to put every single one of them into this. Had these jokes not been funny, this could have been terrible to sit through and indeed some people may not enjoy it at all, but I personally found most of it hilarious. While some may argue that this is more of a gross-out exercise than a legitimate piece of cinema, director Sean Anders at least tries to make the audience have a mild emotional connection to the main characters and, to me, is rather successful. These aren't complex characters, but they are fun and interesting even if they aren't 100% likable all the time. Sandler has never been funnier and despite talking in a typical goofy Sandler voice, makes Donny his most memorable character in quite some time (I love the open beer in almost every scene). What makes Sandler's performance really work is that no matter how absurd or mean the character may be at times, his love for his son is still believable within the context of the film and not something that is shoe-horned into the story to give it some heart. As his son, Andy Samberg is able to hold his own and gives his best comedic performance to date. The two have a really entertaining chemistry as father and son even though their age difference isn't that huge (it's explained). The inspired pairing of Sandler and Samberg, along with the excellent fast-paced direction from Anders, make this the funniest movie I've seen in years. The story can be picked apart if analyzed deep enough and everyone can attack it on the grounds that it is stupid, but I had a great time with it. There are few things better than being provided with solid laughs for a little bit and with that mindset, That's My Boy delivered for me. 9/10

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1/10

A loathsome, painfully unfunny affront to comedy

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That's My Boy is content with being a belligerent vulgarian comedy that it is willing to concoct any setup, any one-liner, or any character as long as it's on par with its irredeemable crude standard. It's first fatal flaw is that it erects so many raunchy situations that it completely undermines the characters that are involved in them, which is the whole reason we laugh. We laugh not at the situations themselves, but how these characters react to them. But this is only the icing on the cake of disgust.

Such topics covered in the film are teacher-student molestation, strippers, poor parenting, child abuse, browbeating the less fortunate, incest, and many more. Only Sandler would take such heartless and degrading topics and throw them all into a film where no wit, soul, or morals can be found. They are employed with such carelessness and such a disregard for humanity that it becomes utterly revolting. The only laughs to be found come from, not a main character, but one that shows up at the end of the film (something you should expect from a Happy Madison picture). He is Abdoulaye N'gom, who was also in the Sandler produced Grandma's Boy. How come somebody didn't think to put him as one of the side characters? The story can be summed up in fragmented words such as lazy, overwritten, camaraderie, inconsiderate, offensive, demeaning, and mean-spirited, but let's focus on the plot itself. It starts out on the ever-so bright note of teacher-student molestation, where young nitwit teenager Donny Berger is happily seduced by his teacher, Miss Mary McGarricle in a closet. It results in an unexpected pregnancy, where Miss McGarricle goes to prison, and their baby is left with the teenage Donny, who can barely take care of himself, let alone another child.

Donny names the kid "Han Solo Berger," and at eighteen, the kid becomes estranged from his parents, telling people they died in an explosion, changes his name to "Todd Peterson," and begins a new life. Donny (Sandler) went on to live off a six figure deal to sell his story to a Television show, and carelessly blew all the money, forgetting that he needed to pay taxes on the earnings. Donny now owes the IRS $43,000, and winds up striking a $50,000 deal with a filthy reality show executive to get him, Todd, and his mother (currently in prison) to do a reunion event on camera. It's scummy and outlandishly selfish.

Todd is Andy Samberg, who is stunned to see Donny show up uninvited and quickly tells his wife's family that he is a close friend of his, and this leads to some contrived shouting matches between the two as to how Donny was the worst parent ever. This is true. It's a too little, too late effort, but Donny decides it's time to make nice with Todd, so he stays at their house during the wedding to reconnect with his son, while trying to conceal the fact that he's only there for money.

This is yet another Sandler film I like to dub an "anti-character" study. First off, there is hardly a likable character in the film, except for Todd, who is just a poor man's version of a neurotic success story. The character Donny comes equipped with Sandler's most horrendous accent since his character in The Waterboy, and this could very well be Sandler's worst film in years (I have not seen Jack and Jill). It aims to go for the baddest of laughs, but due to the lack of discipline, plausibility in the writing (why isn't the baby given to child services?), and the removal of heart in its material, it's a middle finger to morals and an ode to chaotic, mean-spirited circumstances.

That's My Boy inhabits a world of such cruelty to almost everyone involved. The males are incompetent caricatures, motivated by ego and greed, the women are no better than the size of their breasts and buttocks, shown in a misogynistic light almost saying that women exist to either show off parts of their body or to be ditzy, foul-mouthed bimbos, and every middle-age side character is shown as an amoral horn-dog, both men and women alike. Remember Big Daddy? One of the few Adam Sandler films sort of slanted and aimed more for children? It involved a louse who is stuck raising an illegitimate kid for his best friend. You could sort of label That's My Boy the raunchy sequel to Big Daddy, an explain it extracted the heart and sentiment out of it. But saying that would give the film more purpose than it's entitled to. It's a loathsome, painfully unfunny affront to comedy.

Starring: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon, Will Forte, Nick Swardson, Peter Dante, and Abdoulaye N'gom. Directed by: Sean Anders.

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6/10

Adam Sandler is back

It's good to see Billy Madison back. Had some funny scenes but don't expect to much.

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8/10

You won't stop laughing, but sometimes you are laughing at how stupid the movie is!

Even my Grandma liked it. This movie is hilarious. Adam Sandler is finally back on track, in my opinion. The movie involved some of the stupidest comedy I have seen in years.

The plot of the movie is actually quite descent, and it is a spiral of fun. You will laugh at the movie, and laugh with the movie. You will laugh at the movie because it can get very silly.

Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg have AMAZING chemistry, and I think we are expecting more from the duo, well, hopefully! Susan Sarandon and Vanilla Ice are in the movie, yeah it's kind of weird, but hey, its funny!

The movie is filled with R rated stuff, and I am so glad I went to see the movie. 8/10 = A-

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2/10

And Now The Excited Southerner Makes a Stupid Movie

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A dumb lead character in a comedy can result in a funny movie. However, if every other character is dumb enough to be even slightly charmed by a vulgar, drunken, slovenly 41-year-old man with an annoying voice who looks like a washed-up Guns N Roses roadie, plausibility flies right out the window, and so do the laughs.

"That's My Boy" has more promise in its male leads than it ultimately delivers. After all, Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg have a lot more in common besides initials. They're both Saturday Night Live alumni who made names for themselves by writing original, funny songs. They also both practically single-handedly revitalized SNL's popularity by attracting a younger following.

You would think a movie starring both of them would showcase each of their talents. Unfortunately, in "That's My Boy", Samberg was restricted to a straight man role, while Sandler routinely eats scenery with his atrocious Boston accent that sounds more Louisianan.

The film's premise does not leave much room for laughs as it is. Sandler plays Donny, a native of Somerville, Massachusetts who, when he's 13 years old, has a thing for older women, particularly his teacher, Miss McGarricle (Eva Amurri Martino).

When Miss McGarricle takes too much of a liking to the young Donny, they have sex, they get caught, and Miss McGarricle gets pregnant. She bears a son, but gets sentenced to 30 years in prison.

In a contrived, totally unrealistic plot point that only serves as fodder for jokes later on in the film, young Donny is ordered by the court, who apparently had never heard of child care services, to raise his newborn son. Even more unrealistically, Donny becomes a celebrity, sells his life story for six figures, and blows his money away.

The second part of that scenario rubbed me the wrong way already. Do you remember the name of the boy with whom 6th grade teacher Mary Kay Letorneau had sex? I don't. That boy was featured in the New York Times, but not on the cover of Teen Beat!

Anyway, Donny's son Todd (Samberg) grows up to become a successful hedge fund manager, but only after moving away from Donny when he turned 18 (Again, child services anyone?). Donny, on the other hand, spends his money so irresponsibly that he ultimately owes $43,000 in back taxes.

When he finds out about Todd's engagement to beautiful Jamie (Leighton Meester), Donny convinces a TV talk show host to pay him $50,000 for exclusive footage of Donny, Todd, and Todd's biological mother (still in jail) reuniting at last. Such a contrived plot point serves as the reason Donny shows up unannounced to Todd's wedding site days before the wedding.

Rather than the wedding party, consisting of Jamie's family and Todd's boss Steve Spirou (Tony Orlando), being repulsed by Donny's disheveled hair, ratty clothes, vernacular that consists of the f-word spoken every third sentence, and his irritating faux Boston accent, they somehow see his charm. It's surprising, because if a guy who acted like Donny showed up at my wedding, I would call security before he even opened his mouth.

Naturally, because Donny is a boy who never grew up, his shenanigans supposedly ruin Todd's plans for the perfect wedding. The usual cliché plot points happen when Donny and Todd have a falling out the night before the wedding, sentimental music borrowed from "Full House" reruns play during the night scenes, and the climax happens right when the bride and groom are taking their vows.

I should note that there's also a plot twist involving the bride that was so out of left field that it landed in another ball park. Without giving it away, I really wish the film hadn't gone there. That twist made me cringe far more than it made me laugh.

Add those hackneyed wedding movie story lines to Sandler's constantly disseminating his tired onslaught of fat jokes, penis gags, fart noises, antics revolving around elderly people having sex, and homophobic humor, and you've got "That's My Boy". The difference between him doing those jokes in this movie and his last movie, "Jack and Jill" (2011), is that here, when using an irritating voice, he doesn't cross dress.

Don't get me wrong, though. I don't hate Adam Sandler. In fact, "Happy Gilmore" (1996), "The Wedding Singer" (1998), and "The Waterboy" (1998) still make me laugh both because the jokes are fresher and funnier, and because Sandler's character in those movies had heart. Here, he plays a buffoon so obnoxious you want to punch him in the face.

The other jokes not spoken by Sandler, but by other characters, fall flat 9 times out of 10. New York Jets coach Rex Ryan plays Sandler's financial adviser who happens to be a huge New England Patriots fan. Get it? Because he's actually the Jets coach in real life? Hardy har har!

Among the many cameos in this film, the only one that's genuinely funny is Vanilla Ice, who plays himself. He surprisingly does such a good job parodying his image from 20 years ago that Happy Madison Productions should actually give him his own movie.

However, Vanilla Ice's role in the movie reflected the problem of "That's My Boy": when Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg are in a movie together, the funniest person should not be Vanilla Ice! Sandler really needs to reevaluate his on-screen humor and his career. While his movies are making money, he's gradually losing credibility.

To paraphrase an earlier, funnier Sandler movie ("Billy Madison" (1995)), "That's My Boy" is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever seen. At no point in this rambling, incoherent film was Sandler even close to anything that could be considered funny. Everyone in my screening room is now dumber for having seen it. I award this movie 2 out of 10 stars, and may God have mercy on Adam Sandler's soul.

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10/10

Hilarious if you have the right attitude

The reviews for the movie are terrible and I went thinking negatively all ready. To be fair, Adam Sandler does act immature and pretty stupid throughout the movie, but lighten up folks. This is an "off-the-rails" type of comedy. Thus, it's R rated for good reason, and there's plenty of cursing without reason, but I laughed hard and often. I actually was doing homework while watching and drooled a little bit on my textbook from laughing so hard. The action in the movie didn't stop.

I wouldn't recommend seeing this movie with your parents. Maybe the movie isn't worth $9 at the theaters either, but if you're bored at home or wanting to rent a movie with some friends, definitely check this movie out! Hilarious.

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1/10

How Do We Make Statutory Rape Funny?

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Why do I go into Adam Sandler movies with the hope that each new offering will be the one that redeems him as an actor, a writer, and a producer? You'd think I was a masochist or delusional or both; although I've willingly subjected myself some truly abominable projects of his in the past two years alone, including "The House Bunny," "Grown Ups," "Just Go With It," "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star," "Zookeeper," and "Jack and Jill," I've also seen him expand his horizons towards more mature, more compelling endeavors like "Punch Drunk Love," "Reign Over Me," and "Funny People." Hell, he even won me over with "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," which certainly is of the same raunchy, tasteless caliber as most of his other films. He has surprised me before, and I live in hope that he will surprise me again.

I had to keep telling myself that as I sat through his newest film, "That's My Boy," in which Sandler doubles as the star and the producer. For him, and for everyone involved, this is a pathetic new low, representative of nothing apart from a desperate plea for attention. With its bizarre blending of disgusting toilet humor and heartfelt moments of drama, it exemplifies a complete lack of understanding on the filmmakers' part about who the movie was intended for. When you include a scene in which an obese stripper eats an omelet while using her legs to hang upside down from a pole, there is no conceivable way to believably work in a sentimental father/son bonding story. There is only one kind of audience this movie is made for, and I'm fairly certain it will respond more to the stripper than to any depiction of family drama.

The story begins in 1984, when a boy barely in his teens has sex with his hot female teacher, who quite willingly came onto him. They're eventually caught having sex in the school assembly room while, wouldn't you know it, a full assembly is in progress. The intent is obvious: To make light of recent news stories about female teachers seducing their male students. But hold on a minute. Imagine if the foundation of the plot had been an adult male teacher seducing his female student. Would we consider that funny? Of course not. We would rightfully think of the girl as a victim. So then why is it funny when the gender roles are reversed? Why is the boy a stud instead of a victim? In either case, this is statutory rape we're talking about, and the last time I checked, this was not suitable material for a comedy. What we have here is not only a glaring double standard but also a warped sense of humor. The filmmakers should be ashamed of themselves.

The affair resulted in the teacher's pregnancy, which in turn resulted in a thirty-year prison sentence for her. As for the teen, he was required to become a single parent to his child, a son he named Han Solo, until his eighteenth birthday. Initially, it turned out pretty good for him; he won the respect of his classmates, he became a teenage celebrity, and a TV movie based on his life was produced. But then we flash forward to the present day, at which point we find that the teen has grown into a slovenly, foulmouthed, beer-chugging slacker. His name is Donny Berger (Sandler), and if he wants to avoid a three-year prison sentence, he must pay the IRS $43,000 in back taxes. He strikes a deal with a sleazy talk show host: If he can film Han Solo reuniting with his mother (Susan Sarandon) in prison, he will pay Donny $50,000.

There's only one problem. Donny's now adult son (Andy Samberg), who has legally changed his name to Todd Peterson, hasn't spoken to his father in years and has made every effort to hide his past. Now a hopelessly neurotic diabetic, he has become a successful businessman and is engaged to woman named Christina (Leighton Meester). Donny tracks Todd down through a candid publicity photo, reenters his life the weekend before his wedding, and poses as Todd's oldest best friend. Even though he has the social skills of a drunk on a bender, Donny is inexplicably able to win over all of Christina's family. This would include her rather elderly grandmother (Peggy Stewart); not only does Donny masturbate to side-by-side photos of her as a young woman and as she appears today, he will also have sex with her. Yes, she initiates it. And yes, he willingly accepts her advances.

As the plot lumbers ahead, we see James Caan as a priest with a thick Irish brogue and a rotten temper, bear witness to a disgusting and completely unnecessary plot twist involving Christina and her testosterone-pumped military brother (Milo Ventimiglia), and endure a few visual jokes involving vomit and semen. We also watch as Vanilla Ice plays a parody of himself as Donny's best friend, made all the more unbearable by the fact that he's actually a pretty decent actor. All the while, we're expected not to laugh at the phony drama of Donny and Todd working towards repairing their relationship. The people behind "That's My Boy" make countless mistakes, but the biggest was to believe that this subplot could in any way, shape, or form be taken seriously. I take that back. The biggest mistake was making the film in the first place.

-- Chris Pandolfi (www.atatheaternearyou.net)

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6/10

am i the only one who mildly enjoyed it?!?!?!?

mbs16 July 2012

Yes, its not nearly as good as anything Sandler starred in in the 90's but i would argue that its about on par with most of the stuff he's been in in the 00's laugh wise. (On the scale of movies from the 00's,I think its probably the equivalent to "I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry" if only Andy Samburg were as good playing off of Sandler as Kevin James was. Samburg's not bad, but the movie really doesn't let him do anything outside being the straight man here.) Its certainly got more laughs in it then Jack and Jill at the least. No, not everything that's in it is funny, yes it goes on for way, way, way longer then it should. Yes, some of the jokes are pretty awful. Yes the premise is quite unbelievable. (30 years after the student/teacher affair scandal rocked the tabloids--why would random people still know who Sandler's character is by sight? especially if he hasn't been in the media in a good decade or two at that point and he was near completely broke???) Plot holes aside I would still be lying if i said that i didn't laugh at a fair number of things that happen throughout the film, and i would be lying if i said that i didn't think the semi serious scenes between Sandler and Samburg didn't work. I thought they were really effective. The scene where Sandler is hugging Samburg and tells him he regrets letting him go all those years ago and that he wished he'd been a better dad and samburg drunkenly forgiving him and kind of shrugging off the years of resentment actually felt heartfelt and genuine. That's really what drunken forgiveness looks like. It was kind of similar to the scenes in "Chuck and Larry" where Sandler stands up in open court and says how he feels flat out about people who call him names and how much they hurt more then he'd ever care to admit in public. Sure those scenes were written to give both films some semblance of dramatic heft--and to give Sandler something dramatic to play-but to me they were both effective, and they both show how even in somewhat tossed off comedies Sandler can still manage to maintain his dignity on screen and come off as a better actor then the material. Maybe he really has become a better actor as he's gotten older, because i really think he's a lot better at playing these serious heartfelt moments towards the last half hour of his films where his character is supposed to learn a lesson then he's ever been before. (Especially in something like Click where the humor turns much more bittersweet in the last half) Its because I felt that Sandler geuinely wanted to be a better person to his kid, that i thought the ending worked, (even if the end reveal does kind of come out of nowhere) and i thought the movie to be a resonably good time if you've liked sandler's movies these past number of years more or less....and c'mon some of the things happening are pretty funny.

Also the very quick scene with Vanilla Ice where Sandler asks him to drive him at the end and Vanilla goes "You Kidding Me????" and then strikes a pose and then Sandler waits a beat and says "Is that a yes or a no? I don't know what that pose means Ice." was pretty hilarious--and that was just a tossed off thing. (Why wouldn't Sandler's character be friends with Vanilla Ice anyways???)

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8/10

Sandler's Back to Bowel Humor

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Adam Sandler can turn anything into a joke. Whether you laugh at the former "Saturday Night Live" comic's degenerate sense of humor is an entirely different matter. Typically, juvenile delinquent fantasies fuel Sandler's gross out antics. "Sex Drive" director Sean Anders and "Happy Endings" television series scribe David Caspe have ramped up Sandler's impudent humor far beyond anything the lowbrow comedian has ever tried. "That's My Boy," casts Sandler as a shrill, low-life, irresponsible, adult adolescent who never matured. Imagine the protagonists of either "Billy Madison" or "The Waterboy" as unrepentant hemorrhoids, and you'll have a good idea what to expect from "That's My Boy." Actually, from premise to performance, "That's My Boy" qualifies as Sandler at his raunchiest. Nothing aberrant like the thoroughly unwholesome "Hangover 2," however, happens in "That's My Boy." Nevertheless, Sandler hasn't made anything this tastelessly hilarious since either "Big Daddy" or "Little Nicky." Most Sandler characters, such as Billy Madison, Robert 'Bobby' Boucher Jr., from "The Waterboy," Happy Gilmore, and Sonny Koufax in "Big Daddy," emerge as saints compared with Donny Berger. Before his second-to-last movie, Sandler had shown signs of mellowing. He made movies about middle-aged guys and their families, such as "Grown Ups" and "Just Go with It." Earlier, he appeared in two genuinely memorable films: "Funny People" and "Punch-Drunk Love." Admittedly, Sandler's last movie "Jack and Jill" scraped the bottom of the barrel. "Jack and Jill" amounted to cretinous idiocy about identical twin siblings. Sandler dressed up in drag when he wasn't playing it straight. Nonetheless, he played a middle-aged father with a middle of the road family. Happily, no matter how awful "That's My Boy" is, "That's My Boy" is still ten times better than "Jack and Jill." At the same time, "That's My Boy" may challenge even the staunchest Sandler's fans.

The premise of "That's My Boy" is audacious. The year is 1984, and the setting is the Boston suburb of Somerville. Thirteen year old Donny Berger (Justin Weaver) finds himself in detention, but what happens is nothing like "The Breakfast Club." Donny's ultra-hot looking, nymphomaniac math teacher, Mary McGarricle (Eva Amurri Martino of "The Banger Sisters"), rapes him without shame. During a middle-school function in the auditorium, Donny and his naked teacher are caught in the act on stage. She flees in humiliation with a flag wrapped around her, while Donny basks in a standing ovation from both students and faculty. Never has the double standard in sexual relations been more pronounced. A sign in the auditorium heralds Donny's makeover from nobody to somebody: "Some have greatness thrust upon them." Never has statutory rape been celebrated in such a cynical manner. Donny emerges as a tabloid celebrity, while his teacher winds up pulling a 30 year stretch in the Massachusetts Women's Prison. Worse, not only has Donny gotten Miss McGarricle pregnant with a son, but also McGarricle admits no shame in their liaison.

For the record, Anders, Caspe, and Sandler have modeled their comedy on the infamous Mary Kay Letourneau case in 1997. Mary Kay was a married school teacher who seduced one of her 13-year-old students, Vili Fualaau, in Des Moines, Washington. Eventually, she had two daughters from their illicit romance. Difficult as it is to fathom, the people who produced "That's My Boy" have displayed a modicum of discretion in their depiction of the notorious romance between Mary Kay and Vili. In real life, Vili claims he never felt like a victim of sex abuse. Later, after Mary Kay left prison, Vili married her and wrote a book about their adventures. Some of this transpires in "That's My Boy." Similarly, Donny and his teacher have little boy, but Donny turns out to be the worst parent imaginable.

During an expository dialogue scene between Donny (Adam Sandler) and his grown-up son Todd (Adam Samberg of "Hot Rod"), we learn about Donny's shortcomings as a daddy. Initially, Donny named his son Han Solo after Harrison Ford's "Star Wars" hero. Not only does Todd scold his father for this ridiculous moniker, but also for pandering to his sweet tooth so that he packed on hundreds of pounds and contracted diabetes. Donny turned his 8-year old son into an obese urchin and exploited him as a designated driver when he was too drunk to drive! Once he was old enough to disown his dad, Todd changed his name, claimed his parents had died in an explosion, and became a profitable businessman as a hedge fund manager. Todd is poised to marry his sweetheart, a wealthy heiress, Jamie (Leighton Meester of "Date Night"), and live happily ever after. Forty-year old Donny learns about his son's wedding in Cape Cod and crashes it. Things haven't been too good for Donny. The I.R.S demands $43-thousand for delinquent taxes or they will put him in prison. A reality TV show producer promises Donny the dough if he can persuade Todd to appear alongside him on camera at the woman's prison where his mom is incarcerated.

"That's My Boy" concerns reconciliation as well as dysfunctional families. Donny may be Adam Sandler's least sympathetic, most outrageous, and best role to date. At times, Sandler looks like a cross-between of Al Pacino and Paul McCartney in 1980s garb. The running joke is everybody loves Donny except Todd who initially hates him. Most of the action takes place at Cape Cod where Todd's future boss, financial guru Steve Spirou (Tony Orlando), has planned their wedding. Tony Orlando is not the only leftover from the 1980s. White rapper Vanilla Ice appears in an extended cameo as one of Donny's buddies, and James Caan plays a pugnacious man of the cloth. This politically incorrect farce carries an R-rating for pervasive vulgarity, sexual humor, nudity, drug use and some comic violence. Most of "That's My Boy" will either make you grimace in disbelief or laugh without restraint.

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1/10

Maybe we're missing something here...

After seeing this horrible film (on a dare), I was confused. How could Adam Sandler take such an absolute nosedive in his career so quickly and completely? I mean, he's demonstrated that he has some talent and knows how to make a funny movie (Wedding Singer, Zohan, etc.), and even his mediocre movies (all the others) aren't really truly awful... until Jack and Jill and now this. He does seem to be actively campaigning for his very own Razzie category at this point.

Then I had a revelation. Maybe this is all part of some elaborate real-time performance art piece, á la Joaquin Phoenix in I'm Still Here, in which Sandler deliberately tanks his career in the most public and humiliating way possible. Then after finally hitting rock bottom, he'll go on Letterman and proclaim the last five years a hoax and release an indie documentary about the nature of fame, Hollywood, and the human experience, finally going on to win a prize at Sundance.

At least that's what I hope, because if that isn't in fact what is happening here, the other option is almost too sad and depressing to think about. So fingers crossed for the whole hoax/indie documentary thing.

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8/10

It wasn't that bad, I thought it was hilarious!

I do not see why there are so many people who hate on this movie, It is what it is, Its a comedy movie. In my opinion Sandler is going back to his comedic roots... I mean you cant tell me when he was on SNL and in some of his earlier movies he didn't act stupid, Maybe some of you reviewers are just getting old and don't know comedy anymore when you see it. See people need to stop critiquing a comedy like this based as though it was a movie in another genre. But thats just my opinion, If your looking for something funny I recommend seeing this. But you might need to be a specific age group, 12-36, I guess Sandler is tired of trying to make all you "old fools" laugh. Also Andy Samberg was great along with Will Forte and Nick Swardson, even though he only had like 4 lines.

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A comedy that tries WAY too hard

I admit that I am not without a wicked sense of humor. I will also admit that I have found over the years a lot of raunchy gags in R rated movies to be funny. But with "That's My Boy", I found the relentless cascade of raunchy gags to be extremely excessive. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad had the gags been funny. Though I will admit that I found a handful of gags in the movie to be funny, the majority of the attempts at humor seemed to have an air of desperation around them. It was like a pre- teenager struggling to come up with a non-stop bombardment of gags using only a bunch of dirty joke books as reference. Eventually the humor becomes agonizing to sit through, not helped by Sandler giving his character an extremely annoying voice as well as the fact that the movie is stretched out to a much too long length of ALMOST TWO HOURS!

By the way, the disappointing box office gross of this movie (as well as the one for his previous movie "Jack & Jill" suggests that audiences may be tiring of Sandler's shtick. If you ask me, it's about time.

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7/10

Not bad at all

okay look, I'm one of Sandler's biggest fans. No jokes. I spent over a year learning a Bobby Busche impression, just for the amusement of myself. You guys are too hard on him. How can a guy not make a few flops??? This film wasn't even bad. Other than the over use of crude jokes, it was good. If you edited about 10 or 15 minutes of the crude and sexual jokes out of this, it would've been Sandler gold. The character he played was really original, not one of those family guy characters he just keeps on playing over and over. It was like his mid 90 characters like Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison, the ones that made us love him. Of course, it wasn't as good as a character. Overall, a pretty fair film that could've been great with the edits. I really don't know how you can say you walked out of the theater?!!! Same with Jack and Jill, it was bad, but it didn't deserve the horrible reviews. The guys made about 20 massive hits, how's he not gonna make one or two flops??? Anyways Sandler, make the edits and re-put it in theaters and I think it'll do way better.

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2/10

That's My Boy

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I saw on Wikipedia that this was on "List of films considered the worst", I have a seen a majority of films from the star of Big Daddy, many of them have been rubbish, I had to see if this one would be the same story, from Razzie nominated director Sean Anders (Sex Drive, Horrible Bosses 2). Basically in 1984 young Donal "Donny" Berger (Justin Weaver) has a crush on his teacher Mary McGarricle (Eva Amurri Martino), she is a hebephile (has a sexual appetite for teenagers), she begins a sexual relationship with him. This relationship is discovered during an assembly, Mary is sentenced to prison, it is revealed she is pregnant, custody of the unborn child goes to Donny's abusive father until Donny is a mature age. Twenty-eight years later in 2012, adult Donny (Razzie winning Adam Sandler) is a broke alcoholic slacker who spends his time with his friends, bartender Brie (singer Ciara) and her stripper mother Champale (Borat's Luenell), his grown up son changed his name to Todd Peterson (Andy Samberg), he is embarrassed by his father's immaturity, he is a successful businessman planning to marry his fiancée Jamie Martin (Leighton Meester). Donny learns from his lawyer Jim Nance (Rex Ryan) that he owes $43,000 to the IRS in back- taxes, he will be imprisoned for three years if this is not repaid by the end of the week, with his previous period of celebrity he agrees with TV producer Randall Morgan (Dan Patrick) to attempt a televised reunion with Todd and his mother in the women's prison, for $50,000. Donny arrives in Cape Cod, finds Todd, and tries to convince to take part, Todd introduces everyone to Donny as his friend, having previously told them that his parents are dead, Todd refuses to reunite with his mother in prison, not knowing about the TV show. Todd initially argues constantly with his childish and obnoxious father, but slowly he changes his opinion, even imitating his behaviour, Donny is allowed to attend a bachelor organised before the wedding, and his son bonds with Brie at the strip club. Todd does finally agree to meet his mother, the older Mary McGarricle (Susan Sarandon), at the prison, having bonded with his son Donny tries to stop Todd from going, knowing that the TV crew are waiting, but he is too late, Todd does get some time with his mother, but they are then ambushed by the crew, Todd is disgusted and leaves, therefore Donny does not get the money. But then Donny hears a conversation Jamie has that could change everything, he assumes she has been sleeping with Todd's boss Steve Spirou (Tony Orlando), this turns out to be false, however she has been having sex with her own brother Chad (Heroes' Milo Ventimiglia), she is willing to give Donny $50,000 to keep quiet about the affair. Donny decides to go against Jamie's hush money to stop the wedding, he gets the help of his celebrity buddy (Razzie nominated) Vanilla Ice, he reveals to all spectators that he is in fact Todd's father, tears up Jamie's cheque and forces her to admit her infidelity, he is disgusted and breaks up with Jamie. In the end Todd finally acknowledges Donny as his father, he even goes back to using his birth name Han Solo Berger, he starts dating Brie, and offers to help Donny to pay the unpaid taxes, he refuses and is prepared to go to prison, in fact Donny gets the money he needs winning a long-shot bet he placed, Donny and Han celebrate with all their friends. Also starring James Caan as Father McNally, Will Forte as Phil, Blake Clark as Gerald and Razzie nominated Nick Swardson as Kenny. Sandler has played a slacker many times, his character is also a former tabloid celebrity with his claim to fame being that he screwed his teacher, in this he is just another boorish moron, Samberg is mildly alright as the more mature son of his, the appearances of great actors like Caan and Sarandon is pointless. This film I will admit made me titter in some small places, probably the same goes for the critics that give it two stars out of five, but it is crammed with predictability, not very amusing slapstick, stereotypical characters and annoying sentimentality, and its gross in some moments as well, it's just a terrible comedy. It won the Razzie for Worst Screenplay, and it was nominated for Worst Screen Couple for Sandler and either Meester, Samberg, or Sarandon, Worst Screen Ensemble for the Entire Cast and Worst Picture. Pretty poor!

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1/10

Two Adams, Zero Laughs

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Sounding a cross between Little Nicky and Billy Madison, Adam Sandler provides his worst performance in a comedy that makes JACK AND JILL seem like THE WEDDING SINGER.

We begin with a pretty boy pre-teen (did Sandler ever look like this?) having an affair with his lustful teacher. She has a baby, goes to jail, and Sandler's Donny becomes a media sensation seen through the opening credits. The real story begins thirty years later as Donny's uptight son "Todd," played by Adam Samberg… a hybrid of Seth Rogan and a cartoon alligator… is about to land a big promotion and marry his beautiful high-maintenance fiancé.

Meanwhile Donny, in his own seedy neck of the woods, owes a bundle for taxes and will go to jail if he doesn't get fifty grand. With an offer to appear on a tabloid show, he has to maneuver his son, who he hasn't seen in years, to visit mom (the teacher) in jail for a big payoff.

Dad and his boy reunite in Todd's boss's summer home before the wedding, and most of the film has the duo tricking everyone – Donny's supposedly his best friend and Todd, living a lie and having changed his name from "Han Solo," just wants to be normal.

With an abundance of "toilet jokes" that keeps pushing a ragged envelope – from masturbation to incest to everything you can possibly imagine – the plot is all but forgotten. Donny's a sloppy playboy but lacks the charm that'd make us believe any woman would fall for him while Todd remains a deer caught in headlights, never changing his "I can't believe this is happening" expression.

And an all-night bachelor party, trying for the stuff THE HANGOVER characters would have forgotten, is full of bawdy situations completely lacking humor or purpose. Not even pop culture punchline Vanilla Ice can save the day... or night. It's in the 11th hour, when the wedding approaches and the truth of Samberg's betrothed is in question, that we begin to wonder what'll happen next. But by then it's too too much, too late.

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1/10

For movie theaters and DVD, the point of sale really is P.O.S., and I don't mean point of sale...

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It is a sad day for Hollywood that films have sunk to this level of slime. Especially comedy. It used to be that the infamous slob comedy mixed elements of farce, screwball and even drawing room. Compared to this, "Animal House" and "Caddyshack" were Noel Coward. As Adam Sandler is the star, you've got to expect a bit of grossness and plenty of immaturity. But his earlier films mixed in a big heart, and underneath idiotic characters like "Happy Gilmore" and "Little Nicky" was a sweet innocence that is profoundly missing here. I am a big fan of his two films with the lovely Drew Barrymore, but after this film, I will watch his newer films with great reluctance.

Sandler is the grown-up And I use that term loosely... father of a son (Andy Samberg) he squired with his high school teacher who tries to establish some sort of adult relationship with him as he prepares to marry a wealthy young lady (Leighton Meester). And I use that term loosely, too. If finding humor in things such as incest, practically every combination of human waste being let loose on a wedding dress, which the bride then licks, and excessive masturbation references, then the viewer may be amused, but I feel sorry for people like that.

There's a huge supporting cast of unfortunate actors who seem to be intent on proving what slime-balls humanity has become. There's James Caan as a violent priest, Vanilla Ice as a parody of himself and Tony Orlando as an obnoxious relative. Veteran B western heroine Peggy Stewart is the somewhat senile granny and the hefty Louelle is the proverbial exotic dancer with an alleged heart of gold. At least Susan Sarandon has the benefit of a cameo as the cougar teacher, still in prison, but her minimal participation has me asking one question: why?

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4/10

Didn't care for it on the whole, but Adam Sandler has done much worse than this...

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Judging by the rather unnecessarily condescending tone of some of the positive reviews you'd think it'd actually be against the law to dislike Adam Sandler or his films. The bottom line is, it is not, people have different tastes and the word "opinion" is around for a reason, if you like them that's fine but please try to be respectful to anybody having a different opinion to you instead of accusing them of "not having a sense of humour" or "trying to be part of the bandwagon" (that is true of any positive reviews for a movie that is critically panned). Surely it can't be THAT hard to be accepting of other people's opinions, could it?

As for me, I am neither a detractor(I am not going to use the term "hater" as I can't stand that word) of Sandler or his films. Nor am I exactly a fan. In terms of Sandler's films, I loved or thoroughly enjoyed Punch Drunk Love, Reign Over Me, Spanglish, The Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore. But he has churned out some terrible films as well, Going Overboard, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and You Don't Mess with the Zohan are bad but even they aren't as awful as Jack and Jill. My opinion towards Sandler is pretty much the same, some of his performances like in Reign Over Me have been great but there are others especially in Jack and Jill where he is unbearably irritating.

That's My Boy, seeing it out to curiosity to see whether it would be either another dud or a return to form, is neither among his best or worst. For me it is a mediocre film rather than a terrible one, and it does deserve credit for actually being significantly better than Jack and Jill. I do think that That's My Boy does have redeeming qualities. The best assets were the soundtrack and the performance of Vanilla Ice. The soundtrack I found to be great, managing to be upbeat and catchy, it also fits with the film very well. Vanilla Ice sends himself up and the way he does it makes for what is the only thing that is genuinely funny about the film. Milo Ventimiglia manages to be beautiful and earnest, and Andy Samberg gives his all and it shows, it is such a shame though that his role is so thankless.

Unfortunately, I didn't care for Sandler here. He has proved that he can be powerful, funny or endearing, but his performance in That's My Boy shows neither of those qualities. Instead I did find him irritating, in the sense that it is essentially a one-note performance that also has a tendency to be overly-exaggerated. He does do that dumb character shtick that we see a lot in his films, but there is nothing fresh or likable about the shtick. It just feels tired and as a consequence makes it difficult to properly engage with him or his character. Leighton Meester isn't bad, but is underused and has nothing worthwhile to say or do. Then we have actors like James Caan and Susan Sarandon showing up, and while it was nice to see them again I just couldn't think of any real reason as to why they were there in the first place, other than maybe money or just another film to add to their resume.

On a visual front, there are cheaper films out there, the locations are nice though nothing extraordinary, but the editing does at times have a rather rushed-through feel. Sean Anders' direction is flat and lacks any kind of vitality for my tastes as well. On top of that, the characters are stereotypes that are so bland and obnoxious that it is difficult to care for them. You know there is something wrong when the best actors in the movie have next to nothing that is remotely worthwhile. I would forgive the fact that the story is predictable, a lot of movies are even movies that I find enjoyable, if it engaged me at all. That's My Boy didn't do that, it was unevenly paced with a lot of the parts aiming to be funny coming across as forced and there is no real heart. There are a fair bit of sentiment here, sadly it's the kind that is cloying in alternative to touching.

But it was the humour that really hurt it. I can see what it was trying to do but in the end it just wasn't funny. I don't think I laughed or smiled much if at all during That's My Boy, Vanilla Ice aside. For a comedy, that is really bad news. The rude, raunchy kind of humour has worked before, though admittedly is not my style, but the slapstick in That's My Boy though is very shoddy and reeks of been there, done that, and the gross-outs are both unsubtle and laboured. There are jokes about rape and incest, as well as the fart jokes you'd come to expect from Sandler's kind of humour, the problem is that these subjects are not ones to laugh at, so the jokes come across as crude and rather offensive. And to cap everything off, the script is embarrassingly bad with no lines that come across as quotable or even remotely amusing, and a lot of it is very juvenile.

In conclusion, a mediocre film that tries hard but doesn't deliver or for me entertain. This is not Sandler's worst film and not quite bad enough to be down there, but this is really not him at his best. As I've said, while I've given an honest opinion BEFORE having read any of the critics' reviews(though I did have a suspicion) I am not going to say that you are wrong to like it. If you do, good for you, just don't expect everybody to feel the same that's all. 4/10 Bethany Cox

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1/10

That's My Bad…For Watching This

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The funniest part of That's My Boy was that since the movie was void of any humor, they couldn't even come up with the obligatory outtake scenes in the closing credits.

This movie, as stated, is lacking any comedy, any originality and it's a wonder people still flock to an Adam Sandler film with a string of horrid and over-long films starring him. Watching this painful mess – and I use those terms extremely lightly, I kept wondering if it would be Sandler's worst. As disgusting as this was, Grown Ups remains his worst.

Of course, this comes in a VERY close second. Let's just see how bad Grown Ups 2 is and where that'll rank.

I digress. In an age old lie-film plot, a young boy impregnates his teacher and when the time comes, said boy leaves his (milking this "achievement") father and becomes successful. When daddy tries to make unpaid tax money off his son, so-called hilarity ensues at his son's wedding.

You have to give this writer credit, or allow his punishment to become A Clockwork Orange's repeated viewing of this abomination. EVERY SINGLE JOKE either tanked or was seen coming from 600 frames back. Sandler even did his World's Most Annoying Voice again. I've always loathed that whiney and unimaginative sound and here, he performed that for a solid two hours.

Yep. This movie with a 5-minute premise is stretched for almost two hours. What the bleep is wrong with Sandler, aside from his dried out "humor," that he feels that every movie of his has to exceed the needed 90-minute comedy mark?

Mercifully, virtually no one saw this. Could this be a sign equivalent to World Peace? Could people finally saying NO to Sandler? I hope. Wishing he would retire since he's pressed snooze on his fifteen minutes 27 times is probably like requesting the Circle K clerk to give you the winning numbers when you buy a Powerball ticket.

But, here's to hoping.

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1/10

Unbelievably Horrible!

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Sandler...have you lost your mind! Two horrible films in a row:Jack and Jill, and there triplet That's My Boy... the worst of them all. I am a big Adam Sandler movie fan (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, ext.), and putting a wig on Sandler and making him act drunk is just going to make bumps in his career. The two directors must be very dumb because some of the greatest actors (Adam Sandler, Andy Samburg, Katie Holmes, Al Pacino.) have now become not as great. Making Al Pacino bad is the worst thing you can ever do, and the director of Jack and Jill...congratulations! You are the worst director on earth. I hated the movie and had one only one laugh. I had more laughs watching Elmo. Don't see the movie it's bad.

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2/10

A Steaming Pile Of Crap

I don't mind edgy humor, but there should be a limit, This film takes things up a notch, to the point where it's not funny, it's sick.

Donny(Adam Sandler) is drunk, broke, and is about to go to jail for failing to pay taxes, his only hope is his grown son(Andy Samberg), who Donny has not seen for nearly a decade. Donny in his teens,knocked up his teacher, got her pregnant,And his son since then has moved on and made a good fortune for himself, Will Donnys son help him in his time of need?

I hated this movie, this movie is scripted it feels like it's making itself up has it goes along, and I asked myself how did this stupidity of a film ever get green lighted. Sandler, Samberg where not funny, neither was anybody else, except for Vanilla Ice who makes fun of himself perfectly, I thought Jack and Jill was bad, this was much worse. The jokes and gags don't jump out at you, they make you want to ask was that supposed to be funny.

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1/10

How does a dope like Sandler even have a career?

I have tried to watch this abortion of a film called "That's my Boy" a couple of times now , and all I can say is "Who is giving Adam Sandler money to make "films" , and who in the hell thinks this CRAP is funny"? If there was ever a reason to think our society is in it's last days , this "film" could be the biggest indicator of it. Raped by his high school teacher , Adam Sandler plays the lead and is idolized by his peers. THIS IS A PREMISE OF A MAJOR Hollywood MOVIE? WTF PEOPLE! I guess there are rape jokes , incest jokes , racist & sexist jokes all through this "film" . Is this any indication of what Sandler thinks about in his real life? And , another thing bothers me about Sandler's movies. How the hell does he get legitimate actors like Al Pacino and Susan Sarandon to appear in his crap? Pacino was in his previous piece of doo - doo, "Jack and Jill" , and Sarandon has a walk on in this "film". Now , of course , his latest fiasco , Pixels is playing , and , really people , don't support Sandler anymore! His "films" are just that. A filmy , disgusting slime that insult your stupidity , leave you feeling violated , and depleted of all intelligence. SANDLER , JUST GO AWAY , YOU NEED SERIOUS HELP!!!