50 First Dates
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: February 13, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
18
Negative:
6
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58
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
A sweet but weightless and witless romantic comedy, Sandler is not only deeply unfunny, he's deliberately unfunny. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
The movie's sole selling point turns out to be its sweetness. Sandler, Segal and writer George Wing obviously like all of the characters despite the constant ribbing, and Sandler and Barrymore are as cuddly as a pair of love-struck walruses. But only a sucker would get too close. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
If you've never seen a Sandler movie, however, this isn't the one to start with. Proceed only if you're sure you like the guy. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
50 First Dates is working awfully hard to be romantic and not hard enough to be a comedy. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
At each stage of the romance, the movie digresses with a series of swing-and-miss gags, often with an abusive twist. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
You can tell they're desperate when they unashamedly resort to showcasing cutesy sea-creature behavior. Sandler is a funny guy. Let him work for his own laughs. He doesn't need a puking walrus to prop him up. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineEthan Alter
Sandler's shtick is the main thing dragging down this otherwise pleasant romantic comedy, but he's come a long way since the crude, juvenile "Billy Madison" (1995). Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
A mildly pleasing romantic comedy, a trifle held together by Drew Barrymore's charm and a decent high-concept gimmick. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
So unself-conscious and breezy that you find yourself sailing along with it; its flaws become as negligible as harmless barnacles nestled well below the water line. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Although its goofy high-concept premise won't bear much scrutiny, it offers a less predictable ride than their first pairing, and lush Hawaiian locations to boot. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Possesses an undeniable heart. The bad news is that it will still be buried underneath layers of stale Sandlerisms tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
The film repeatedly disappoints because Sandler and his director...have so little faith in focusing on the two characters' plight that they interrupts the romance repeatedly for vulgar, Farrelly brothers-style sexual and ethnic jokes that are so relentlessly unfunny they may not even rouse Sandler's core constituency of 12-year-old males. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
It's a kick to see the adorably sexy Barrymore back in relaxed form again after the "Duplex" debacle and that calamitous "Charlie's Angels" sequel. Right now, she's the closest thing to sunshine you'll find at the movies. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Dull and sappy, though anyone who finds Sandler dreamy should love it. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Sandler and Barrymore generate some believable, if low-voltage, chemistry: they're both so shallow and conceited and dingy that you think -- yes! -- in real life, these two people probably would go for each other in a second. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
What do you get when you mix Adam Sandler with SPAM gags, a trained vomiting walrus, a wall-to-wall soundtrack of calypso covers of 1980s pop hits, and Rob Schneider in native-Islander brownface? You get a pretty crappy movie, but for one major mitigating factor: Drew Barrymore. Read full review
40
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Schneider hams it up as a paunchy middle-aged Hawaiian stoner in an eyebrow-raising ethnic caricature that more than once calls to mind Mickey Rooney's unfortunate Japanese turn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
As Adam Sandler vehicles go, this isn't quite as dire as "Eight Crazy Nights," but any movie that has to fall back on Rob Schneider rubbing his nipples has some serious script issues. Read full review
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