That's My Boy Review: I Got No F*cking Dukes  By Brian Prisco |
Film Reviews | June 15, 2012 | Comments ()   SNL's Digital
Shorts have become the stuff of legends, mostly because of The
Lonely Island crew. In short doses, you can't do much better.
Celebrity stunt cameos, hilarious songs, and cleverness abound.
But when you try to mainline that shit for two hours, you're
just going to get violently ill, throw up and curl into an
assball waiting for swift merciful death. That's My Boy. As I
discussed with my colleague Grae Drake on the Popcorn Mafia
podcast, Adam Sandler's great when he's not playing the likeable
and supposedly attractive male millionaire. When he plays
buffoons or gibbering idiots, that's when we like him. (I'm
clearly not acknowledging Punch-Drunk Love. It was a fluke and
we need to fucking move on from this.) So That's My Boy seemed
like the second coming for Sandler. Finally, he was playing a
trashy idiot at which we could all laugh. He was going to act
like an asshole until finally soberin