![]() ![]() We know Lucy is stricken with a lingering loss. While the courting game is kept duly interesting, the problem with an idea as implausibly endearing as this is with the denouement. In order to win her over Sandler must woo her every single day. Drew Barrymore is the road-accident victim who forgets her past every day. From the hero?s transvestite companion at his place of work to his goofy Hawaiian friend (Rob Schneider) to the heroine?s muscle-building brother, to the walk-on part of Tom the man whose memory-retention powers extends to only ten seconds?.you?ll seldom come across a film with such a vivid gallery of supporting characters who carry the main love story forward without letting the basic implausibility of the idea become a hindrance in the storytelling.Īnd the main course is so cute as to be outrageous. This ambivalence of mood and perception runs through the film with a bracing vigour, nourishing and sustaining the entire narrative. Larger?than-life, they?re still true-to-life. But there?s more to screenwriter George Wing?s character than meets the eye.Įvery single character, big or small, sparkles with a sense of prideful precocity. That Lucy is played by Drew Barrymore helps her to be ravishing. Roth is happy, and so?s the narrative mood which gyrates to a jaunty beat, often punctuated by semi-orgasmic sighs that dissolve into a full-blown groan for love-gone when Roth runs into the ravishing Lucy at a local eatery in Hawaii where the film is set. ![]() Unlike the guy he played in the same director?s The Wedding Singer, Sandler?s Henry Roth in 50 First Dates isn?t a loser.not unless you think dating a different girl every night ? and conveniently forgetting their names ? constitutes a sucker for self-torture. Adam Sandler who?s been typcast as the wonky, not unintelligent but certainly not cerebral lover-boy, comes up with yet another kookie Cassonova?s character. ![]() How many of these really do the needful, namely make us fall in love with love?ĥ0 First Dates is a far cleverer, more rounded and rippling piece of work than it wants us to believe. Actually, the romantic comedy is a much-abused genre. ![]()
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