Blended

 BLENDED

Director : Frank Coraci

Year : 2014

Genre : Comedy

Rating : *1/2

 

Continuing his systematic disemboweling of comedy, Adam Sandler reunites with his '50 First Dates' and 'The Wedding Singer' co-star Drew Barrymore for 'Blended', the latest cinematic abomination to feature his trademark puerile humour, his annoyingly self aware idiosyncracies and his sycophantic love for diarrhetic sentimentality. This time Sandler plays a widowed father of three who, after a terrible first date, inadvertently ends up going on an African vacation at the same time as his failed date, a single mother of two played by Barrymore. What follows is a highly conventional and mind numbingly dull rom-com with racial stereotypes, overacting child stars and the customary masturbation, sex and toilet jokes thrown in for good measure. In the grand scheme of things, 'Blended' isn't as ghastly as 'Jack & Jill', 'Grown Ups 2', 'That's My Boy', 'Little Nicky' or 'Billy Madison'; films which just made me want to rip out my eyes from their sockets and dilute them in strong hydrofluoric acid. However, it is still a vastly unfunny and deeply depressing picture that does nothing but continue Adam Sandlers unrelenting stranglehold of the global box office.