The nonexistent plot reworks Harold Ramis’ 1993 movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray played a cynical weatherman doomed to relive the events of Feb. Sandler’s portfolio of stock moronic slackers like champs and heroes. Still, the usual jackass gags and sickening, sophomoric sentimentality are here in abundance: gay jokes, savage beatings, old senile people who talk filthy, and the pathetic coterie of social and medical misfits who treat Mr. Sandler (and an always baffling fraternity of misguided movie critics who feed on tastelessness) probably calls style. Like his 1998 valentine The Wedding Singer, this alleged new comedy pairs the liverwurst-faced Saturday Night Live alumnus with fizzy, wide-eyed Drew Barrymore, who makes a nice leavening agent for the ugly, abrasive and creepy persona that Mr. “Crude,” “lewd” and “shameless” are three words that pretty accurately describe Adam Sandler movies in general, and 50 First Dates in particular.
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