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RE: You Don't Mess with the Zohan (flim): a perfect example of Sandler
Adam Sandler is a legend.. Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison are classics. Times have changed, in my opinion movies in the 90s and early 2000s were the best years.
You definitely named the two of the three best Sandler movies (I would include the Wedding Singer), with Happy Gilmore being my favorite.
These were the Sandler movies before the plots got so convoluted. After these movies, the jokes were still great, like in the Zohan, but you lost any sense of a character based meaningful story. (I am not including Sandler's sincere dramas, which aren't funny).
On a personal note, Jim Carrey's "Dumb and Dumber" was the funniest nineties movie lol.
I suspect though, that your sense that movies were best in the '90s is simply a function of a fondly remembered youth. We attach to the pictures and books and tv that we remember from our young days a nostalgia that makes them seem the best. We become like our parents, shaking their heads and telling us that nobody is as funny as Jerry Lewis or The Rat Pack used to be.
Truth is, in the seventies, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder created a laugh riot in Blazing Saddles, and John Belushi was a king in Animal House.
And in the eighties, Bill Murray RULED in Caddyshack, Stripes and Ghostbusters. And I loved how, hearing the word "Surely" in "Airplane," Leslie Neilson's pilot so dryly would say: "Don't call me Shirley."
And more recently, "The Hangover" movies have killed me with laughter, including and especially in the post credit scenes, recapping their bachelor party antics! And there's Melissa McCarthy in "Spy," and Kevin Hart in anything.
Funny remains funny, but the heart is where our youth was. :)
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