THE LONGEST YARD

I get the feeling that underneath all the of the unassuming working-class good-guyness of his image Adam Sandler is really a smug condescending asshole. I think he believes that all he has to do is show up on screen and we will have fun and pay money to do it. This movie has all of the gimmicks it needs to appeal to the white college boy audience (Chris Rock, football, Adam Sandler, general wantonness) except only naked women, and yet it has nothing. Normally I'm a paying member of the Dumb Humor Boy's Club. The problem is that there is no humor in this movie, dumb or otherwise.

The Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard is easily one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It's right up there withGone in Sixty Seconds as movies with the most obvious absolute contempt for their audience. The fact that these movies even have an audience (I'm assuming that they do) might prove the contempt just and well-deserved. If anyone ever says that Hollywood racism doesn't really exist, that's all just hype, make them watch this movie. Amos and Andy is a step up. Blaxploitation is a step up. If I hadn't seen Loose Cannons a few years ago, this would be the least funny "comedy" in my memory and I've seen a lot of unfunny comedies. I'm not that hard to please and this movie didn't even raise a smile. Adam Sandler wasn't funny, Chris Rock wasn't funny, nothing anybody said or did in the whole movie was ever even remotely funny. You just kind of got the feeling that they gave up trying somewhere along the line, like on the first day of the shoot. They try to make you feel excited about stuff, identify wiht the characters, like when they go playing in that muddy field. You know they trying, you know what they want you to feel, but you just don't want to. This movie just isn't worth the effort of feeling anything except relief that it's over.