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2012
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Thats My Boy
Positive Reviews
16
Negative reviews
42
Average Rating
1.8
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1.2
With Thats My Boy, Sandler goes from making puerile kiddie comedies to a glorified Playboy Party Joke of a movie.
Av Club
0.3
Thats My Boy isnt just the worst film of 2012, its one of the most morally reprehensible comedies of all time, a disgusting movie you should stay far, ..
We Got This Covered
1.5
However, if you expect Thats My Boy to be the Bad Dad equivalent of Bad Santa, youll be sorely disappointed.
Austin Chronicle
2.0
Sandler cant quite adopt that same cynical edge, instead favoring corny and sentimental resolutions to untenable predicaments.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
Samberg more or less acquits himself, but doesnt really shine or even get a chance to stretch in an underwritten buttoned up role.
Screen Daily
1.5
Sandler probably doesnt think this brand of gross out humor is edgy.
Collider
1.5
Donny ingratiates himself with Todds boss Steve (Tony Orlando) and the brides family, though the bride Jamie (Leighton Meester) is pretty anal, and do ..
Collider
2.5
But it certainly has more life to it and actual humor than most of Sandlers recent output.
IGN
1.0
As I walked into the theater for the screening of the new Adam Sandler epic Thats My Boy, it was admittedly not with a light heart or the greatest sen ..
E Film Critic
1.9
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
1.3
Fans of lower than low comedy may choke on their popcorn over every staggering vulgarity.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.2
While still in his teens, Donny fathered a son, Todd, and raised him as a single parent up until Todds 18th birthday.
Blu Ray
3.1
Sandlers character is so good at enjoying the moment that the pressure of the lie is easily lifted.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
The film bears all the marks of a Sandler farce, including satirical jabs at upper middle class snobbery and a narrative framework contingent on the a ..
Chicago Reader
1.9
Thats My Boy is a step up from Sandlers more recent fare; then again, it doesnt take that much effort to rise above a bar that low.
Mark Reviews Movies
1.3
Playing straight man to the endlessly irritating Sandler is a thankless job.Thats My Boy is beyond bad.
Usa Today
1.0
A lowlife loser (Adam Sandler), once famous for having sex with his teacher when he was 13, tries to reconcile with his estranged son from that union ..
News Review
3.0
I cant give it a blanket recommend because..well, you just dont want to take a blue light to that blanket and see whats on it after two hours of Sandl ..
Screen It
3.5
The concept album that is Arethas Gold follows the chronology of Aretha Franklins hits, all released in 1967 and 1968, apex years of the decade not ju ..
Pop Matters
1.5
In a smarter movie, this gambit might have come off as bold or audacious, but here its just nauseating.
The Wrap
3.5
Your weekend must see flick has arrived.To be sure, Sandler has never been our most sensitive comedian, but even his crudest comedies tend to have a g ..
News Day
2.5
Not a bad idea, but it wasnt a good one to give Sandler that cringe making New England brogue, a low rent parody.
Film Journal
1.5
I know, when Sandlers not trying hes an easy target, and hes not trying here. But honestly, this is one of those movies you feel stupider just for hav ..
Az Central
1.9
How did American comedies come to rely on raunch rather than wordplay
Boston
3.5
If their genders were reversed, Thats My Boy would be cause for a congressional hearing.
Npr
0.6
Lowbrow comedy goes subterranean in Thats My Boy, a product of the Adam Sandler movie factory unpolluted by a trace of ambition or wit.
Star Tribune
3.2
On some level I marveled at the conviction that Adam Sandler pours into playing a character like Donny Berger, a boneheaded, loud mouthed alcoholic lo ..
Ew
1.5
This film is an especially toxic blend of the condescension, idiocy and sentimentality that characterizes almost all of Sandlers recent work under his ..
Salon
1.0
Every bit as painful as Sandlers recent career worst Jack and Jill, Thats My Boy wastes Sambergs considerable comic talents on a thankless straight ma ..
Flim List
3.0
Not nearly as terrible as burped out Sandler disasters of recent years, theres enough funny stuff here to remind us of his talent.
Empire
1.0
But, really, youd be better off renting or streaming Sandlers greatest hits than watching this puerile exercise in ridiculing the Mary Kay Letourneau ..
Common Sense Media
2.5
I will watch it and I will enjoy myself and I will have no excuse for it and I will remain un sorry.
Movies
3.5
It was like the joy of The Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore combined with yet another great wig sitting there like a cherry on top of a gorgeous sunda ..
Movies
1.3
Rather, watching Sandler in Thats My Boy is like watching Sandler the straight man commenting on his own comic performance.
Sf Gate
1.9
Adam Sandlers celebration of stunted maturity stupidity continues unabated in Thats My Boy, another Happy Madison production that, following the lead ..
Slant Magazine
0.0
Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy thanThats My Boy.But lets be positive, and express it as a wish for the f ..
Chicago Tribune
2.8
Thats My Boy isnt Happy Gilmore or even The Waterboy, but its got its moments.
Reeling Reviews
1.5
ay be the most repulsive movie Ive ever seen... ike the evil Mirror Universe version of Ted.
Flickfilosopher
2.0
Well hold our hand up for Little Nicky.But we just cant stand over Thats My Boy.
The Irish Times
2.5
Meester remains relegated to a largely functional role thats essential but hardly inspired.
Hollywood Reporter
2.2
Couldve used less of Sandlers childishness and more of someone willing to push it in a darker, more dangerous direction.
Hit Fix
1.9
Far more problematic is the films almost total lack of laughs, as director Sean Anders, working from David Caspes screenplay, places a consistent emph ..
Reel Film
2.5
A hard R comedy that doesnt skimp on the raunch while piling on sight gags galore and enough bizarre cameos to qualify it as a surrealist film, the fo ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.0
With the alleged comedy THATS MY BOY, Adam Sandler may have finally bottomed out.
Maki At The Movies
1.3
Samberg generates a few chuckles as the maladjusted Todd, but the moviesurprise surprisemostly lets Sandler have all the fun.
Red Eye Chicago
2.5
Clearly theres a wedding to crash and adolescent fantasies to fulfill.
Ny Times
2.5
It is for this reason, then, that its impossible to warm up to Thats My Boy, despite its many inspired bits.
Dustin Put Man
4.2
For long stretches its boring.In its best moments, its indecently entertaining.
Ar Kansas Online
1.5
The gross out jokes occasionally score, enough to provide intermittent laughs.
Hollywood And Fine
2.5
Funny is some spots, idiotic in others and a combination of both during its moments of raunchy insanity, Thats My Boy is a suitably moronic entry into ..
Matts Movie Reviews
0.0
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Sltrib
0.9
Andy Samberg deserves a better vehicle than this one to showcase his talents as a comedic actor.
Nyc Movie Guru
1.9
Sandler fans likely will eat this nonsense up like ice cream. Non fans could do worse a lot worse. Like Jack and Jill.
Js Online
2.0
And yet every year, as regularly as St Swithins Day, Adam Sandler is allowed to make a comedy.I dont hate Adam Sandler.
Scots Man
1.0
In other words, nobody has an excuse for being surprised by how low Sandler and company stoop in Thats My Boy..You might be shocked, perhaps, at just ..
No La
0.0
Wretched, misogynist and a touch fascist, Thats My Boy is the absolute bottom of the cinematic experience.
The Ooh Tray
1.0
Its like Little Nicky made ugly, passionless love to Meet the Parents, and this abomination is the result.
Fat Guys At The Movies
2.0
The real feat though is how Adam Sandler and his clan of middling comics manage to make this raunchy comedy sporadically enjoyable.
Fan The Fire Magazine
3.5
Its not so much the jokes as written but the go for broke performances.Vanilla Ice is funny.
Entertainment Time
0.0
The premise utilises the following inflammatory topics for joke fodder: rape, racism, parental negligence, bullying, diabetes and incest.Adam Sandlers ..
Graffiti With Punctuation
0.0
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Richard Roeper
2.5
After Jack and Jill theres nowhere to go but up. Adam Sandler is his own genre. You know where the laughs are coming from and exactly where its going. ..
Schmoes Know
2.5
Thats My Boy is Sandlers raunchiest movie its approach to sex is enthusiastic and juvenile and the opposite of the squeamishness of Bucky Larson.
Movie Line
2.0
And Sandler has a disturbing ability to make you laugh despite yourself.
Standard Net Au
2.5
Without the handy chapter select features that come with DVDs and Blu Rays, its a long and painful wait for the good, I mean, bad stuff.
Kc Active
3.1
Its easily Sandlers most peculiar movie, and although its inconsistent and often juvenile, its also his funniest since You Dont Mess With the Zohan.
Twin Cities
3.5
Its one of those things you have to experience for yourself, and I wholeheartedly encourage you to do so.
7 Dvt
2.5
Sandlers movies possess a level of randomness and crass stupidity thats almost brilliant.
Deads
1.0
I waited until tight Tuesdaday to see it. It was the worst $11.50 Ive ever spent. Ive bought $11.50 mocktails that gave me more of a buzz than this pi ..
The Crat
3.0
Depending on your POV, its either the ne plus ultra of Hollywood calculation or a comedy simply intent on pushing its crassness to the point of surrea ..
Time Out Chicago
3.1
I laughed sporadically throughout, but not enough to call it a successful comedy. There are too many dead spots, and that first half hour is unwatchab ..
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