Blended: A cozy, lazy affair

Blended
Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore
Rated: 5/10
Adam Sandler and his single parent issues are no stranger to Hollywood and this one comes from the same stable. Hence, it’s all very similar and predictable.
Single dad of three growing girls (they all look like boys having made to undergo haircuts by their dad’s barber), meets harassed single mother of two brat boys. Man a delivery boy at (oops) Dick’s and woman a closet settler of rich and famous. Both in a state about their states, both grappling with parental realities, both lonely and both seeking company only as a break from parenthood.
The premise is all set for a lazy romance, with family thrown in in good measure.
And as we all know, Sandler does the right things in movies of this genre — teaches the boys baseball, tries to be a mother to embarrassed girl with teenage issues, loves his dead wife, lives and works for his children.
Then there is Drew Barrymore with all that angelic beauty, blonde hair (don’t miss the blood red lipstick) and charming laugh trying to be a grown up mother to two boys whose biological father has no time for them.
The two families go on an accidental holiday and the romance buds. Well, not as never before as you would have wanted with such an awesome cast but it does nevertheless. Slow, dotted with child problems, lots of African animals and funny Black fellas dancing around in the wilds of the Dark Continent, of course with a trace of humour.
Yes guys, it is familiar, it is done to death and yet it is good enough for a cozy weekend popcorn show.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 1 June, 2014
 

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