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September 12, 2006
Beale's Summer Scorecard: Sandler Wins, Anyone Who Ever Liked Sandler Loses
The last time the esteemed Reeler Pinch Hitter and general NYC film gadabout Lewis Beale made an apperance on this blog; the server just about collapsed under the traffic demands. I do not know if his recent survey of summer film hits and misses will repeat the magic, but as a scorecard from the season that just was and thankfully is no more, the piece from Monday's Newsday is worth a read.
Although it is really, really hard for me to get my head around the reality of Beale's take on Adam Sandler:
Give Adam Sandler credit. The man realizes he's getting too old to star in frat-boy comedies like The Waterboy and Big Daddy (he turned 40 on Saturday), so recently he's moved into more mature fare, like Spanglish and Punch-Drunk Love. Plus, he hasn't lost his audience: Click, a pretty lame family comedy (29 percent on the Rottentomatoes scale), still managed to gross more than $135 million. With results like these, it looks as if the man's career is going to last a long, long time.
And with $135 million ($135 million!) for Click, the man's milquetoast downturn will streak more fiery and further and than a righteous God would allow. Please, Mr. and Ms. American Public, please: Stop encouraging perfectly good comedic actors with crossover potential to suck. You got your way with Robin Williams. It does not have to be this way. Let the poor guy be, I beg thee.
Posted by stvanairsdale at September 12, 2006 10:58 AM
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