Nelly makes a worthy appearance in The Longest Yard
Dear Adam Sandler,
I am writing this letter because I am concerned with your future as a comedic
actor. Sure you are making $20 million a picture and can pretty much pick
and choose whatever you want to do, but all this money and success is making
you soft. I just finished watching your latest film The
Longest Yard and I have to say, while funny at times,
this is not the Adam Sandler films of old.
The Longest Yard Movie Review
I remember the first time I saw Billy Madison,
I was in awe at how funny that film turned out to be. The film was so random
and offbeat you couldn't help but laugh at Old Man Clemmens, The Penguin
and of course the best line of the film, "If peeing in your pants is cool,
considers me Miles Davis". You then equaled that comedic genius with Happy
Gilmore. You stuck with the same formula (Loser rises up and becomes
someone) and kept that random comedy that made Billy Madison so
funny.
You had grown a very large cult following and you're next film would take
you to the next level. With the release of The Wedding Singer we were introduced
to what would turn out to be the new you. In order to start raking in the
big payouts you had to change your comedy and make it more accessible to
anyone outside the demographic of 18-25 year old males. The film had its
random comedy moments, but it didn't have as much impact like Happy
Gilmore and Billy Madison did. The film was a huge success
though and started you off on your path to comedic mediocrity.
Every once in awhile you would have small glimpses of your old self (The
Waterboy and Little Nicky), but for the most part the rest
of your films couldn't even come close to your glory days. The Longest Yard
is further proof.
Burt Reynolds returns for this remake
We've all seen this film done hundreds of times
before. Athlete with a bad past must unite a gang of losers together in
order to win the big game, but his past might cost his team the win and
his redemption. Instead of adding anything new, you repeat the same formula
and even make it worse. You have your usual funny moments, but the film
turns out to be an unfunny version of Necessary Roughness. Not
even a Chris Rock can save you; all he's good for is jokes ripping on white
people. You couldn't even come up with an original idea; you had to remake
a film that was done in the 70's and make it worse.
It really hurts me because I love football movies. All the hits are 10 times
worse then they would ever be in the pros, there are always some players
who suck in the beginning, but have their moment of glory and of course
there is always some rebel who turns out to be a true natural. You have
all of these in the movie, all of the big moments for the characters are
there, yet I've seen it done better by Keanu Reeves of all people (yes I
found The Replacements quite entertaining due to the Keanu factor….which
I will explain someday).
The Longest Yard turns out to be just like your more recent films,
occasional laughs here and there backed up by a fairly generic plot. Since
I love football movies I still found it entertaining, but the whole time
I was hoping to see some glimpse of the man that was responsible for Billy
Madison and Happy Gilmore. You were too busy raking in the
millions and getting big names to be in your film to hide up for the tired
thin plot. While your film follows the traditional football movie formula,
you just can't add anything to it to separate it from the pack. So eventually
it just winds up being another Adam Sandler film. Hopefully this letter
is a wake up call to take a chance again and go back to the kind of random
comedy that made you my hero back in the days.
Nelly makes a worthy appearance in The Longest Yard
Burt Reynolds returns for this remake
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