Movie Review - The Wrong Missy

Director: Tyler Spindel
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 89 minutes
Year: 2020
Starring: David Spade, Lauren Lapkus, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider, Molly Sims, Geoff Pierson, Jackie Sandler, Sarah Chalke, Jorge Garcia

Description: Tim (David Spade) thinks he’s invited the woman of his dreams on a work retreat to Hawaii, realizing too late he mistakenly texted someone from a nightmare blind date.

Review: Happy Madison Productions, Adam Sandler’s production company, pooped out a new film. And this is hardly a good sign (also since I used the word ‘pooped’). This new comedy with David Spade is no exception.
Tim Morris has a crazy blind date with Melissa, also known as Missy. She almost causes a fight, pulls out a knife on her first date and declares his love for him already. Because of this terrible date, Tim decides to stop dating for a while. But then he meets another Melissa at the airport, who appears to be his soulmate. Tim doesn’t think one second and asks her to a work retreat in Hawaii with him. But it all turns into a disaster when he invites the wrong Melissa and accidentally has to take Missy from the blind date from hell to Hawaii with him.
With a complete lack of humor, this so-called comedy unfolds on the island. The screenplay relies heavily on juvenile sex jokes and unnecessary slapstick. Missy is a terrible character, with no substance whatsoever and her drunk adventures get boring and old very quickly. And after a half hour or so, you start to get annoyed. It’s hard to find any redeeming qualities in her character and the sudden opinion switch Tim makes about her is just illogical. Because the other Melissa is clearly the better woman for him in this story. Sidekicks Rob Schneider and Nick Swardson try hard to be funny, but never are. Since writing humoristic dialogue seems to be a difficult task. The film is just one cringeworthy moment after another.
Did people actually have fun making this film? David Spade even seems uninterested and it looks like he really didn’t want to be in this movie. Everything lacks inspiration: the direction, the script, the actors, they simply miss a soul.
This film is terrible and make 89 minutes feel like forever.

Rating: 1 / 5

100 Movie Challenge 2016 - # 49: Little Nicky

Director: Steven Brill
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 90 minutes
Year: 2000
Starring: Adam Sandler, Harvey Keitel, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans, Rodney Dangerfield, Reese Witherspoon, Michael McKean, Rob Schneider, Henry Winkler, Peter Dante, Alan Covert, Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz

Description: After two of the devil's three sons escape Hell to wreak havoc on Earth, the devil (Harvey Keitel) must send his third son, the mild-mannered Nicky (Adam Sandler), to bring them back before it's too late.

Review: Adam Sandler doesn’t have the best reputation, but he has made some great memorable comedies like “Billy Madison”, “The Wedding Singer” and “Happy Gilmore”. “Little Nicky” unfortunately isn’t one of them.
Sandler plays one of Satan’s three sons, who has to stop his two other borhters from creating a battlefield on Earth. This character, Nicky, has a major speech impediment and is actually a more kind hearted guy.
The movie is filled with bad jokes and there is way too much going on. Sandler’s jokes are often bad, but bearable and still funny. Here in “Little Nicky” I didn’t really laugh a lot and I was a bit annoyed with the film.
“Little Nicky” is probably one of Sandler’s worst films.

Rating: 1/ 5