It’s a rather easy thing to do to question Adam Sandler‘s artistic integrity. However, when you’re paid millions to act like a fool and visit places all over the world is it really fair to judge his decisions? After all, unless he’s making Punch-Drunk Love with Paul Thomas Anderson people find it rather easy to shit all over him, even if it’s something of quality such as Reign Over Me and he was the least of the issues in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, which seemed to get more of a pass because it was an Apatow movie than anything else.
While this weekend his latest film Blended is another one of those “show up and get paid to have fun” kind of Sandler features, the kind I simply ignore and don’t watch, the guy does have The Cobbler coming up for Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent) and Men, Women & Children with Jason Reitman as his next two films.
So, when Sandler tells Jimmy Kimmel he’s been pitching for exotic locations for his films since convincing the studio to move 50 First Dates to Hawaii I can’t say I blame him. For the most part the guy is box office gold (someone is watching), but I do wish he would continue to try more interesting dramatic work as I think he has something of a knack for the dramatic, as long as someone writes him a role that doesn’t always remind us of Barry Egan.
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