Product Description
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While still in his teens, Donny (Adam Sandler) hered a son,
Todd (Andy Samberg), and raised him as a single parent until
Todd's 18th birthday. Now, after not seeing each other for years,
Todd's world comes cing down on the eve of his wedding when
an uninvited Donny suddenly shows up. Trying desperately to
reconnect with his son, Donny is now forced to deal with the
repercussions of his bad parenting skills. Co-starring Leighton
Meester and featuring incredible cameos from a cavalcade of stars
including Susan Sarandon, Vanilla Ice and James Caan.
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Adam Sandler-ites are going to be pleased as punch to add That's
My Boy to their collection of discs branded with Sandler's Happy
Madison production company seal. Those who don't share the
specialized tastelessness required to appreciate the movie-star
mogul's brand of lowbrow comedy may find themselves fumbling over
words like "stupid," "pointless," "infantile," and especially
"unfunny." Unlike some Sandler outings that have slightly broader
appeal, there will be no middle ground between lovers and haters
of this story about a man-child reconnecting with his estranged
son in a sea of hard R-rated raunch, vulgarity and jokes about
sex, bodily fluid, sexism, racism, ageism, and all manner of
juvenile buffoonery. Sandler plays Donny, a feeble, annoying,
stuck-in-adolescence has-been who got famous at age 13 when his
hot teacher had her way with him, got pregnant, and went to jail.
He exploited this schoolboy fantasy for years until it was milked
dry. Now his estranged son Todd (Andy Samberg) is getting married
to rich girl Jamie (Leighton Meester) after finally--he
thought--getting rid of the shame of being the spawn of Donny and
the horny teacher (played young by Eva Amurri and older by Susan
Sarandon, who are real-life mother and daughter). Todd changed
his name from Han Solo and has gotten rid of hundreds of pounds,
and his story is that his parents are dead. The charade continues
when Donny shows up at the rich girl's family compound on the
wedding weekend desperate for money, cling to be Todd's
long-lost "best friend," and somehow winning over everyone with
his drunken, potty-mouthed obnoxiousness. It's no surprise that
the wedding goes awry or that things end up with epiphanies and
righted wrongs, at least in the version of foolish reality the
movie depicts. But it's impossible to overstate the grotesqueries
of taste that happen from the very start to the very last. That's
not to say that there aren't some big laughs along the way, just
that That's My Boy requires its audience to share that very
specific form of bad taste. Samburg is essentially the straight
man to Sandler's typical funny-voiced goofing. Sandler employs
lots of his old comedy friends (as well as real family members)
to out the large cast. In addition to fun extended cameos
from Tony Orlando as Jamie's her and James Caan as an
unorthodox priest, there are lots of other familiar faces from
SNL and elsewhere, including Vanilla Ice, Todd Bridges, Will
Forte, Nick Swardson, Rachel Dratch, Ana teyer, Alan Thicke,
Colin Quinn... Phew! It's a veritable feast of dimwitted comic
chops with the comedy ed squarely at the folks who think Adam
Sandler is a sainted icon. As far as That's My Boy's exquisite
crudity is concerned, he's more like a ham-fisted overlord. --Ted
Fry