Sandler gets Blended up with Barrymore for another hit film!

Blended: I recently watched Adam Sandler's recent film'Blended', and as someone who has seen their fair share of Happy Madison (Sandler's own Production Company) productions I must say I was thoroughly impressed. 'Blended'came out in mid 2014 and now in mid 2015 it seems like a good time to review on the booming success of this film and how it breaks ground for what we would usually expect from Sandler.
Blended is not your typical Happy Madison production, it is, bold, funny and full of familiar actors as we have grown to expect from Sandler's films, however the film is set in Africa and is centred around a holiday resort for 'blended families',this gives the film opportunity to explore the dynamics of meaningful family relationships without the traditional slapstick humour often employed in Sandler's films.

An interesting trope which Director Frank Coraci has employed is the similar formula used for the film, as the film contains many Actors from former films Directed by Coraci, For example the Sandler, Barrymore duo is the third film the two have done as co-stars, along with 50 First Dates and The Wedding Singer. The same formula for reusing leading characters in a film set in a different but relate able setting can be noted from Nicholas Stoller's films; Get him to the Greek' and 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' where Russell Brand and Jonah Hill are both characters with major screen time, and due to the success of Brand's and Hill's chemistry in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Stoller decided to make the two co-stars in a film of their own, this is similar of what Coraci has done with the winning formula of Sandler and Barrymore.

Finally The film, due to its light-hearted nature and simplistic storyline is able to be enjoyed by a wide range of audience members and thus it is an excellent film for families, couples, individual movie goers and groups of movie goers alike.

The film has its flaws, being the same duo used for former work and the simplistic humour of Sandlers's films, however these are tropes fans of Happy Madison Productions have come to love.

If you're a fan of Sandler's previous work, then you're going to love Blended, and while it breaks new ground for Sandler as an actor and Coraci as a Director, it still has a familiar feel to it, and you cannot help but enjoy it.

Rating: 7/10

By: Brett