50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition)
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Actor: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Lusia Strus, Rob Schneider, Sean AstinBrand: Columbia Pictures
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Dictionary), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Published), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Bonus: Director and Cast Commentary
- Bonus: Deleted Scenes
- Bonus: The Dating Scene The Making of 50 First Dates
- Bonus: Music Videos
- Bonus: Comedy Central Reel Comedy Special
DVD Reviews of 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition)
DVD Review: Fifty 'First' Laughs...And Then Some.
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, let me start by saying that I've only enjoyed Adam Sandler in five movies. They are: "The Waterboy", "The Wedding Singer" (on my all time top ten list), "50 First Dates", of course, "Anger Managment" and "Spanglish". However, "The Longest Yard" looks promising, but so did "Billy Madison". This movie looked good in the previews and I looked forward to seeing it, but then, on February 7, 2004, just one week before the first movie that I anticipated of 2004 opened nation wide, the negative press started. I first heard that it was a romantic rehash of "Groundhog Day" that slips into sad elements in the end. I then, along with my grandmother, both of us big fans of "The Wedding Singer" and most Drew Barrymore movies, reconsidered our choice to see the movie the following weekend. So, on February 8, 2004, I went to go see "Cold Mountain" (another one of my top ten favorites), and it was shown along with a preview of "50 First Dates". Only I hadn't seen this preview before, which was funnier and showed some footage from the movie that I hadn't seen before. After it ended, both my grandmother and I turned to each other and said "We're there!". So Monday of the following week (it was a long weekend, so no, I am not a truant!) my grandmother and I went to see it. Both of us loved it (we both watch it around once a week, sometimes twice) and bought it the second it hit the shelves. At one point, while swimming in my pool over the summer, I took a portable DVD player and set it up next to the pool on a table, so that shows how much I adore this movie, risking electrocution. This is a sort of sidetrack, but the night of the infamous pool show, I watched "The Royal Tenenbaums", my third favorite movie of all time, and laughed at the scene where Margot (Gweneth Paltrow) is in the bathtub watching TV, and Etheline (Anjelica Huston) says that she will electrocute herself, which is what three people said to me when I was in the pool that day. But anyway, after I saw this movie I, along with my grandmother went into another show and watched the first half again. I think that the reason that this movie was so well liked by me and other people, is that there is an amazing chemistry between Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. They work so well together and even the sexual scenes, physical or not, seem natural. I know that this sounds mean spirited, but I really, really want Adam Sandler to divorce his current wife and marry Drew Barrymore. Hey, it's not like they have a kid or any thing. This movie was so consistently funny that even the gratuitous amounts of crude and sexual humor seems small, which I guess it is, since it stops pretty much fully by the second act, with the exception of "Doug's Problem". At one point, I was laughing from the point where Lucy and Henry are on the beach at the party to the scene were Alexa gets hit by numerous waves while saying "Nothing beats a first kiss".
The setup of this hilarious yet romantic movie is that Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore), the recent victim of an accident where she lost her short term memory, meets Henry Roth (Adam Sandler, with traces of what would come in "Spanglish"), Hawaii's lothario. Of course, Henry falls for Lucy in the Huki Lau Cafe. He is there because of a force of nature, his boat sinking after the mast collapses, and meets Lucy pretty much the same way, when she almost blinds him with the light of her butter knife. Henry and Lucy hit it off after they have a fairly intimate breakfast together at the Huki Lau. The agree to meet the next morning for the same thing, and they both are extatic about the rendezvous. However, when Henry goes to the cafe the next morning, Lucy doesn't remember him at all, and once Henry makes a masturbatory reference on accident, she has him dragged from the cafe. He then learns the origin of Lucy, how her mother died and she now lives with her brother Doug (Sean Astin), and her dad (Blake Clark). See, every year on her fathers birthday, which is the same as mine, she and her father would pick a pinapple together. But when a stray cow wandered into the road, they hit a tree, causing Lucy to remember everything except for the cow, the accident, and everything after that. Henry then tries a new method every day, some heartwarming, some hilarious, some that are both, and so on. But Henry is being watched under the dissaproving eye of Doug and Lucy's father. Doug and the father also help Lucy out in remembering not to remember. Of course, it is only a matter of time before Lucy discovers that her life is a sham, really, but that is where the plot gets interesting.
In the end, "50 First Dates" is a very sweet movie with a nice, warm moral message in the end. This is much funnier than all of those other crass, mean-spirited comedies, and it takes guts to depart from that curse. I love this movie and think of it as my fourth favorite movie of all time. This is a great, hilarious, romantic, and suprisingly well acted movie. If you go in expecting not a whole lot, like I did, you will appreciate it a whole lot more. But even if you don't go in expecting little, you will still like it equally as much as you would in any way, which is not the mentality with most movies today ("Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" anyone?).
Movie: "50 First Dates"
Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Sean Astin, Blake Clark, and Rob Schneider
Rating: 5 Starts Of 5 Stars
MPAA Rating: PG-13 For Language, Brief Nudity, Drug Content/Humor, Crude Sexual Humor, And A Prolonged, Dramatic Accident Sequence
*Note*: 1.) I love this movie, but I don't normally love Rob Schneider, but here he seems like he has actually matured. As a matter of fact, he's pretty funny here, for the most part. 2.) I love the "Forgettful Lucy" song, and tear up and laugh every time I hear it. It's just so funny and he looks so odd yet modest and embarrassed singing it.
Description of 50 First Dates (Widescreen Special Edition)
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star together for the first time since The Wedding Singer in one of the funniest romantic comedies in years. Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) lives an enviable life in a Hawaiian paradise, spending every night with a beautiful tourist in search of an island fling. It is a sweet life with no strings attached, until he meets Lucy (Drew Barrymore). He and Lucy hit it off from the get go, but the next day she acts like she does not know him. Has his karma come around to kick him in the butt or what? Actually, Lucy has short-term memory loss, so every night all memory of her day is erased. But a man in love will go to any lengths to win over the girl of his dreams, and if that means having to find imaginative ways of doing it over again every day, then Henrys up for the challenge. Rob Schneider (Big Daddy) and Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) co-star in 50 First Dates, which will win you over every time you watch it!Bestsellers in DVD
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