Blended
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: May 23, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
31
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
14
Negative:
17
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMay 22, 2014
It could have been a bit smarter and a lot shorter, but Blended, the third big-screen pairing for Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore (after "The Wedding Singer" and "50 First Dates"), is a fun, often funny, largely enjoyable romp. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldConnie OgleMay 22, 2014
Blended isn’t Sandler’s funniest movie or his best, but it is a big step up from the dregs he’s been churning out, a messy, shaggy dog of a comedy that you can’t help but like even as it sheds all over your house. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMay 23, 2014
The chemistry may be good, the movie isn’t. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Philip BrownMay 22, 2014
The movie offers nothing new or special, but at least it isn’t as painful as watching Sandler walk Al Pacino through a Dunkin’ Donuts rap. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryMay 22, 2014
Each sweet moment is inevitably punctuated by some in-your-face joke that’s at least as stupid as the preceding moments were heartfelt. Blended has other problems, too, including some faulty editing and a typically predictable finale. But there are some genuinely sweet and funny moments, which are more than enough to exceed expectations. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia PuigMay 22, 2014
You have to work hard to make an African vacation seem unpleasant. And Adam Sandler nearly pulls it off in Blended. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoMay 22, 2014
Funny thing, though: The sunnier that Barrymore gets in her scenes with Sandler, the more the iffy elements and leaden bits seem to just melt away. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 22, 2014
As usual for the comedies he produces, Sandler keeps pooping in the sandbox, and he expects the audience to give him a cookie for it. It’s a shame that he forces Barrymore to get soiled too. Read full review
50
TheWrapInkoo KangMay 22, 2014
Blended director Frank Coraci, a Happy Madison vet, is too much of a company man to elevate this passion-phobic rom-com beyond something more than an above-average Sandler production. Read full review
50
The DissolveNathan RabinMay 22, 2014
Thanks to Sandler, Barrymore, and South Africa’s natural beauty, Blended is far more palatable and bearable than it has any right to be; it’s fluff that rises to the level of innocuous disposability. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMay 22, 2014
Blended is simply more of the stale Sandler formula that audiences wisely haven't sought as much. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 21, 2014
The movie feels like a throwback; it brings to mind the blandly crappy movies Sandler made 10 years ago, rather than the brazenly crappy movies he makes today. In that sense, it’s a double disappointment, neither consistently funny nor endurance-testing. Read full review
40
EmpireAnna SmithMay 22, 2014
No surprises here, nor many laughs, though the romance has a simple, sentimental appeal. Read full review
40
VarietyAndrew BarkerMay 22, 2014
Blended suffers from a fundamental lack of trust in its audience, following every unexpectedly smart exchange with a numbskull pratfall or one-liner, and every instance of genuine sincerity with an avalanche of schmaltz. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMay 22, 2014
Embodying the same wholesomeness that has informed most of his screen work, gross-out comedies included, it feels like a tentative next step in Sandler’s evolving screen persona, one that has gone from good-hearted dolt to bumbling man-child to middle-aged father. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 21, 2014
Blended is an Adam Sandler movie that isn't as bad as you feared it would be. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMay 26, 2014
What's missing from Blended? Two key ingredients: it doesn't touch the heart and it doesn't tickle the funny bone (at least not often enough). Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireMay 23, 2014
The bar is just so low, people. It’s just hovering there above the ground. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonMay 21, 2014
The filmmakers only bother to lay out comedic set pieces that are simply family-friendly big-budget variations on Jackass stunts. Read full review
34
Film.comKate ErblandMay 23, 2014
Sound nonsensical? It is. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyJeff LabrecqueMay 22, 2014
In Blended, his (Sandler) comic flab has never felt as thick, and this hackneyed "family-friendly" entertainment feels less like a movie than a bad sit-com re-run. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMay 23, 2014
It’s a good family movie the way Hooters is a good family restaurant. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMay 21, 2014
The laziness is what irks me most about Blended. Everything from the re-teaming of the two stars and their "Wedding Singer" director, Frank Coraci, reeks of moviemaking by checklist. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandMay 23, 2014
Blended throws a lot of things on the screen, but in the end, it has to confront its awkward and artificial "romance." And that's just ugly. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianStephen WhittyMay 23, 2014
He plays it so low-key there's nothing much for him to do, apart from the clueless-dad shtick and some awkward comedy with an ostrich. The big laughs never come. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 22, 2014
This is a clichéd, cynical, occasionally offensive, pandering, idiotic film that redefines shameless. Read full review
25
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMay 22, 2014
These days, Adam Sandler is a bottle of beer that’s lost all its bubbles — cheap, mass produced domestic beer. So let’s focus on what works in his latest, Blended, because he sure doesn’t. Read full review
25
The PlaylistDrew TaylorMay 22, 2014
A movie that is, in its subtle way, as offensive and mean-spirited as anything Sandler has done, but in a way that is so cuddly, there's the possibility it could, somehow, go unnoticed. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 22, 2014
Badly made and poorly written, Blended is a rehash of Adam Sandler's 2011 comedy "Just Go With It," only without Jennifer Aniston and without laughs. It not only gets the big things wrong. It gets the small, easy things wrong. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithMay 21, 2014
Barrymore is still cute, and she and Sandler at least seem to like each other as they get on with the grim business of rom-com contrivance. Read full review
20
The GuardianMike McCahillSep 22, 2014
It proves very much un film de Sandler: so lazy you feel unconscionably guilty for snorting at the three jokes in its two hours that merit any response. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMay 22, 2014
Before you spend good money to see the purported comedy, Blended, watch the trailer. The entire movie is packed into those 152 seconds. Read full review
0
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 22, 2014
Most of Blended has the look and pacing of a three-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their less bright classmates. Shots don’t match. Jokes misfire. Gags that are visible from a mile away fail to deliver. Read full review
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