‘You’ll want to stick your head in a blender’

After a bad blind date, a man and woman find themselves stuck together at a resort for families, where their attractions grows as their respective kids benefit from the burgeoning relationship.

Adam Sandler's new film is being panned by the critics. Source: AFP

ADAM Sandler's movies rarely impress the critics. But his latest attempt at humour is being caned like no other.

The film is called Blended. It's about a single father (Sandler), who goes on a terrible blind date with a single mother (Drew Barrymore), then gets stuck with her on a trip to Africa.

The parents realise they have some things in common (i.e. they're parents), and start to like each other a little more.

Sure, the concept is a little tired, but how bad could this film really be?

"The laugh count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer," writes the Daily Mirror's David Edwards.

Oh.

Don't look so surprised, Drew. Source: AP

"The two stars, who worked so well together in The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates, display precisely zero chemistry, while the 'humour' is both cynical and childish."

Edwards' piece is headlined "Adam Sandler's Blended will make you want to stick your head in a blender instead", which seems pretty emphatic.

Meanwhile, over the New York Times , film critic A.O. Scott is struggling to contain his lack of enthusiasm.

"Because life is short and I have other things to be upset about, I will not dwell on the offensive aspects of Blended," Scott writes.

"Its retrograde gender politics, its delight in the humiliation of children, its sentimental hypocrisy about male behaviour, its quasi-zoological depictions of Africans as servile, dancing drum-playing simpletons ... I'm sorry. That's just what I said I wouldn't do."

He really didn't like this bit. Source: AP

Those flaws actually annoy Scott less than practically everything else in the film.

"I find myself more bothered by the sheer audience-insulting incompetence of the filmmaking and the writing," he says.

"Most of Blended has the look and pacing of a three-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their less bright classmates."

Linda Barnard of the Toronto Star reckons Sandler's jokes, which were bad to begin with, are re-used a little too much.

"The gags about masturbation, girls who look like boys, lesbians and cutie who talks like the Exorcist's demon recycle endlessly," she says.

"Blended is a movie with training wheels, where everything is spelled out and the path to Lauren (Barrymore) and Jim (Sandler) moving from 'I hate you' to 'I do' is lit up like a landing strip in the desert."

Drew Barrymore stars. Adam Sandler, not so much. Source: AP

In all fairness, there have been some sort of kind words for the film, courtesy of Deadspin's Tim Grierson .

"Blended isn't very good — I wouldn't even say it's good — but it is several degrees more tolerable than Sandler's recent films ... carrying a faint enough trace of likability to suggest what the guy could do if he really applied himself," Grierson writes.

"I definitely wouldn't say I recommend it, but if you're stuck going to it with your kids or significant other, the good news is that it's more tolerable than you probably expect."

That's probably about as good as Sandler will get from the critics this time around.

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