Some people can be hard on movies. I understand movies are art, you expect a level of social commentary or some kind of value to a movie. But I go to movies to enjoy them. And some people hate what they want to hate, and some movie critics want to hate movies that are dumb. So Adam Sandler movies are an easy target. Don’t get me wrong, I hate Jack and Jill as much as the next guy, wasn’t a fan of either Grown Ups last time I watched them, and find some movies like Bedtime Stories annoying. But Adam Sandler has good movies, and then the rest like this fall in that its pretty good category. But two things stopped this movie from being recognized. One, it’s come out since Jack and Jill, and at a time where people are just hating Adam Sandler. Two, the Adam Sandler voice. Yeah, it’s pretty bad. And I’ve watched this movie twice now, and only the first scene really bothered me with his annoying voice. Both times I was like, "Shit that’s how he’s going to talk this movie… this is going to get really annoying.” But surprisingly, I stopped noticing, and didn’t really care. I’d still appreciate a more normal voice, maybe just his attitude show his character and not his… shitty voice. But what can you do. Also a third thing I think people don’t like, the usual Adam Sandler jokes. You know, like a chick catching a baseball with her tits. Those kind of jokes. But enough about why other people hate this movie, all the power to them. I liked some of the jokes in this movie. I loved the fact that Adam Sandler’s character actually had a beer on him at all times. I love the fact that one of the two main characters in this movie is named fucking Han Solo. I love the fact that he has a New Kid’s On the Block tattoo on his back. Also, I like the Lonely Island, and so I like Andy Samberg. But I don’t see him in movies that often, so when I can it’s a treat. And I felt like his character was real. Rarely when a person I know behind a camera is as famous as they are do I forget it’s them without kind of forcing myself to jump into the movie. Yeah, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa in High School, take a lesson from Lonely Island!... on one members acting skills… okay, maybe not. Another thing, like most of Adam Sandler’s movies, there’s a cool guest star. And usually that’s in two ways. Some of his movies have a big cast of guest stars who don’t play themselves (Grown Ups 2, the Longest Yard) or its one big guest star, like Bob Parker in Happy Gilmore, or Al Pacino in Jack and Jill. This time he recruited Vanilla Ice… yeah. But it was actually a pretty good guest performance. You could either hate or love Vanilla Ice and it would still be pretty funny. And I don’t know much about Vanilla Ice, but since Stepbrothers, I’ve found the song Ice Ice Baby to be the funniest shit ever. So for me, very cool guest appearances. And as far as the raunchy comedy that wasn’t good, it didn’t bother me. They had this stupid thing with the grandma and… then there was this stripper… I could just do without those things. I will say I did like the other characters that weren’t over the top. The antagonist, who I won’t ruin for you, she’s a real bitch, and you are pretty happy when she gets yours. And that’s what I’m talking about, when the bad guy got defeated, I felt that happy feeling when bad people get what they deserve in movies. And I wouldn’t say this movie deserves the Character Badge I give to movies with good characters on my site, but hell, I enjoyed them. I remember two of the scenes with Sandler and Samberg having actually kind of nice father and sun moments. And yeah, so it pulled a pretty damn good movie out. It’s not great, its not bad by any means though, or at least I thought so.

That's My Boy gets a 3/5

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