Why Adam Sandler's Best Comedy Movies Have Such Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores
Adam Sandler’s comedy movies have been wildly popular with audiences for decades, so why do his best installments have such low scores by critics on Rotten Tomatoes? While Rotten Tomatoes isn’t always the best indication of whether a movie is popular, it does give a sense of films’ receptions and legacies. Popular dramas tend to fare well on the site, but a weak spot in terms of accurate judgments of quality between audience reception and low critic approval has been comedies, particularly the 1990s and ‘00s era goofy comedies starring SNL alumni like Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell.
Getting his start in 1990 on Saturday Night Live, Sandler officially transitioned into the film industry after 1995’s Billy Madison, which received mixed reviews from critics but was surprisingly successful at the box office. FollowingBilly Madison, Sandler adapted his same adolescent comedy persona in each subsequent film, with particularly memorable performances in Happy Gilmore (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), 50 First Dates (2004), Grown Ups (2010), and most recently Hubie Halloween (2020). Sandler’s box office success led him to start his own production company, Happy Madison, through which he continues financing the same type of films he became famous for — even if nearly all of them, even the most popular cult classics, have been critically panned.
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While it’s been widely regarded that Sandler’s comedic movie quality has declined in recent years, it’s surprising that the early films that gave him the platform to continue making goofy comedies have low Rotten Tomatoes scores. Sandler’s heyday of his best comedy movies is considered to be the
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