On Adam Sandler

What’s great about Adam Sandler films is that they lack pretense. The standard is “is this funny?,” whether crude or dumb. It could be a school bus driver clandestinely eating children’s lunches or someone winning a game of golf with a hockey stick. In their simplicity, however…they aren’t really dumb at all: they are quite attuned to what makes us laugh, even if we don’t want to admit it to ourselves…or to others