Big Daddy (1999)

Adam Sandler is something of a hit and miss but Big Daddy is closer to the former thankfully. He plays a loser slacker who is dumbed by his girlfriend because of his lack of initiative towards life. Soon he is visited by a pint sized boy who comes and stays with him- who also happens to be his son. Together they do stuff, get closer to one another and go around creating chaos. The relationship is well established and I genuinely felt for both these characters. Rob Schneider plays a new immigrant who is learning English and Kristy Swanson is the girlfriend who quits on Sandler. All in all Big Daddy is a touching comedy that you should see.

Your enjoyment of this film will be based on how favourably you rate the main actor, Adam Sandler.For me he's OK in small doses, and of all his films this is perhaps where he's most likable, interacting well with the Sprouse twins.It's not a great comedy though, and despite some nice moments is largely forgettable.

I like Adam Sandler a lot, but recently with Blended and The Cobbler, he's starting to lose his goofy touch what made his humor funny in the first place. I loved the most recent movie he's done called Pixels in 3D, but he truly shined back in the day. One of his best movies is Big Daddy, which is a very funny and surprisingly charming comedy that shows that Adam Sandler can still try his best at being hilarious. The movie has a strength of having pee and throw up jokes, innuendoes and slapstick, but the crudeness and simplicity of the comedy will make you laugh out loud. The movie is very sweet, without being too corny to be considered cinematic cheese. A lot of the unimportant characters are actually the funniest and most interesting of the bunch. Julian is just too damn funny here, he has a ton of antics that are a few of the highlights of the movie. Overall, Big Daddy is a hilarious and heartfelt gem that should be better received.

I really like this movie. I can't believe that it took me so many years to finally watch it. I think I just forgot about it, at some point.This movie is about Sonny Koufax, mostly. He's a 32-year-old law school graduate. He has a nice apartment in Manhattan and his life seems to be pretty good. However, there is one problem. He does nothing. Ever. He sits on his butt and lives off an investment that was the result of a lawsuit he won, one year ago. So, yeah, that's a problem. Even though it sounds like a nice thing to do, but not for that long. When his friend, Kevin, is on a business trip, it is discovered that Kevin has a son that he never knew about. Sonny has to take care of the boy until his father returns. At first things don't go well, but then Sonny ends up loving him. I thought he might've adopted him, but he doesn't. Instead, they stay close and Sonny gets married and has children of his own.Overall, I give this movie a 7 out of 10.