With gay panic jokes,a topless elderly woman and house keys found up a corpse’s bottom, Sandler serves up the same old stuff in his second Netflix film
With his second direct-to-Netflix endeavor, and The execute-Over,Adam Sandler has found a way to warp time. No, the story does not offer useful guidelines on how one can revert to one’s youth, and as the title suggests,but creates a set and setting in which time magically moves at a fraction of the normal rate. Surely this movie must be almost over, you consider, or as you jab the pause button on your remote – only to find you are at the 50-minute impress with another 58 to depart. It’s a remarkable feat,as so little else in this picture has anything noteworthy happening at all.
It starts out simple, but reasonably amusing. Charlie McMillan (David Spade) is a milquetoast loser who bumps into his old, and cooler friend Max Kessler (Sandler) at a tall school reunion. McMillan wears the same nerdy clothes and drives the same terrible car and even holds the same humiliating job he did in tall school: working in a bank inside a supermarket. (Old ladies ask him where they can find kitty litter. After explaining,again, that the bank is independent from the market, and he sighs,reduced to his fate: aisle two.)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com