Review of Sandy Wexler (2017) by Moviemitch96 — 17 Apr 2017

No matter how bad or unbearable his movies get, I always seem to find myself giving Sandler the benefit of the doubt by watching each new one he comes out with. Maybe it's due to wishful thinking and I think that he might churn out something halfway decent for once, or maybe it's because I miss 90's Sandler so much and I hope that he'll give us something more along the lines of Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Billy Madison, The Waterboy, etc.

Well, with this third outing with Sandler and Netflix, I must report that this movie surprisingly fell into the category of the former: It amazingly did turn out to be halfway decent in my opinion, but certainly doesn't come anywhere near his best and funniest 90's efforts, as mentioned above.

However, like I said before, the film was surprisingly a small step above Sandler and Netflix's previous two films together, "The Do-Over" and "The Ridiculous 6", which were both some of Sandler's absolute worst.

On the plus side, the film has a lot more sweet and well-meaning moments in it than most of Sandler's recent outings, which was quite unexpected. The cast assembled, which includes Sandler's usual entourage consisting of Kevin James, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Nick Swardson, etc.

, along with the presence of Jennifer Hudson, and some other notable cameos throughout kept things somewhat interesting. However, on the downside, it does rely quite heavily and obviously on the usual Sandler comedy formula that's been heavily diluted into every single movie of his pretty much.

Overall, if you're like me and you're still holding out hope for Sandler with every new movie he makes, certainly don't hold your breath on this one. I'm just somewhat relieved that this wasn't as near as painful to watch as "The Do-Over" and "The Ridiculous 6" were, which, again, isn't saying much, but if you're still holding out hope for Sandler, take that for what it's worth.