Blended (2014)

Over the years, Adam Sandler has made a slew of movies, some more fondly remembered than others. Here's how his own kids feel about the movies.

As it turns out, the idea of a shared cinematic universe may not have started with comic book movies, as this lunatic posits that all of Adam Sandler's films are actually connected. Seriously.

We here at CinemaBlend aren’t quite ready to write Mr. Happy Gilmore off just yet. So we got together as a staff and answered five important questions about Sandler and his career.

After a dearth of big releases for several months, TV and movie sets are at a high. This week, IFC has releases a skinny, funny and recyclable set with Portlandia: Season 4. If you are looking for a set that’s a little more excessive, The Walking Dead’s fourth season set also comes in a Limited Edition that’s meant to look pretty on a shelf.

The four day Memorial Day holiday weekend saw the latest entry to the X-Men franchise dominate the box office. But it was also a great example of how franchises are struggling to keep up with themselves, both in money made and tickets sold.

But Sandler is nothing if not a survivor, and he's very close to jump-starting this lull in his career. He's diversifying with both the comedy-drama The Cobbler with writer-director Tom McCarthy, and he's leading the ensemble of Men, Women And Children for director Jason Reitman.

When it comes to taking the hard earned money of both the audiences and the studios that foolishly offer it, Adam Sandler is Hollywood's Bernie Madoff. His films are mini Ponzi schemes, designed to lure audiences into thinking they're getting what they want, only to keep luring them in with each subsequent release.

Looking to Godzilla, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Blended for inspiration, we've pulled together a selection of monster movies, time-travel tales and romantic comedies.

Summer movie season is kicking into high gear. Every week we’ve got a big opening with big budget blockbuster anticipation. We’ve also got a Sandler movie. So, win some, lose some. This time around it’s X-Men heading back to the future while Sandler and Barrymore get blended.

Which is why we've decided to break down most of the summer's offerings, observing exactly what it is about some films that cause them to succeed and fail. This involved number crunching, market analysis, educated guesses, and the application of a few snobby biases.

Family shenanigans ensue in the new Blended trailer. The comedy will bring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore back together, this time as single parents who find themselves trying to get along while on a luxurious African vacation.

Blended, follows a single mom with two sons, and a single dad with three daughters who end up falling for each other after a bizarre twist of fate (or contrived plot twist) lands both families on a trip to Africa.

We’re going to go ahead and assume these ten aren’t going to be the films that surprise us all that much. The writing seems to be on the wall as far as talent involved, quality of promotional material, and behind-the-scenes gossip.

Regardless of how an Adam Sandler comedy turns out upon full viewing, the trailers for his films continue to promote themselves as comedies that are both bottom-feeding and written by a class of middle school students who don’t like each other. With this in mind, watching Blended was still a shockingly bizarre experience, and I don’t understand how it didn’t say “Based on a Simpsons Episode” after the title screen.

The romantic comedy pairing of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore has a solid history of success at the box office, with both 1998's The Wedding Singer and 2004's 50 First Dates considered big hits in theaters, but will the idea of their third time working together be enough for them to outshine a movie about apes taking over the Earth?

The story follows a man and a woman who have a horrible first date and then find themselves stuck together at a resort with their respective children from previous marriages. Given the two stars' chemistry in The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates, however, presumably they eventually learn to fall in love with each other.

It is the rare exception when an Adam Sandler comedy will draw more laughs than groans that get angrier by the minute. And while there is almost never anything redeeming about any of the characters he plays, it’s somehow the romantic stories that become his most memorable films. Well, of any that don’t feature giant penguins or fist fights with Bob Barker

Adam Sandler has a new project in the pipeline, and this one might not be the Razzie bait we’re used to, since it falls into the romantic comedy genre where he isn’t judged quite as harshly by critics and fans.