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Absolutely brilliant

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Sandler's attempts to be less goofy meant a remake of the Frank Capra classic.When multi millionaire media mogul Preston Blake dies, his unknown nephew Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), who runs a pizza shop and writes greeting cards is contacted Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher), who is temporarily in control of the media empire. He wants Deeds to sell his shares in the company to Cedar and return home $40 billion richer. However he gets involved with an undercover reporter (Winona Ryder) and Cedar plans to get the company by all possible means.Sandler very much is the nice guy here, not goofy, not bad tempered and hopes to stretch his acting muscles but is still a bit too much of a lovable dork. There are still some gross jokes, some songs and his regular acting friends drop by such as Steve Buscemi and Rob Schneider. John Turtturo stands out as the faithful butler who suddenly sneaks up on you. There are even a few cameos like John McEnroe.The plot is rather flimsy and predictable. The romantic angle does not really work. Sandler is nice but not too funny and as a remake it adds nothing to an original that has been rated very highly for years. This is not one of the better Sandler films.

Media mogul Preston Blake froze on top of a mountain leaving behind 49% stake in his media company worth $40 Billion with no immediate heir. Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) is a small town pizzeria owner with a penchant for writing unusual greeting cards. His mother's uncle is Preston Blake and he gets the whole inheritance. Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder) is a tabloid reporter posing as a mugging victim from a small town to get in with Deeds and do an exclusive on the new tycoon. Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher) and Cecil Anderson (Erick Avari) are a couple of company men who are organizing a buy out of Deeds' shares and maybe take advantage of him. Emilio Lopez (John Turturro) is the sneaky strange man servant.I really didn't laugh once. Adam Sandler is both naive and annoyingly smart. My overwhelming feeling is that I found Sandler strangely unlikeable. He always has that goofy sarcastic grin. He seems to be playing a pretty smart guy but he's also completely clueless. If I don't like the character, chances are I'm not going to find him funny. And I don't find Adam Sandler funny in this one.

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough.Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their pie.Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead.Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him....So the thing is about this film, is that it's been done time and time again by Sandler. He plays the nice guy against the odds, who meets a nice girl, but has a lot of obstacles to overcome, usually in the shape of very rich people.But these films work on so many levels. Not because of the story or the flow of the narrative, it's the random characters and their traits, that distract the viewer from the story, and just deliver the big laughs.There is nothing original in the story, but the fact that a tennis player can jump 15 or so feet in the air, an opera singer sings as he is being beaten up, John Tuturro being sneaky, just makes for the film to so silly, you cannot help but laugh.And laugh I did. It's one of Sandlers best films, and despite the fact his movies are gradually diminishing in quality, you cannot help but smile.It's a big fat sunshine movie, full of joy, and guaranteed to make you laugh.Don't be a snob, let yourself go....

When this movie first came out, I was about 13 or 14 years old. I remember I couldn't stop laughing every time I watched it. I was literally obsessed with the movie. I would watch it through, then rewind the tape, and watch it again. I spent most of my winter vacation from school watching Mr. Deeds. I begged for the DVD for my birthday, and by the time I got the DVD, I was so sick of the movie that I never wanted to watch it again. I was just flipping through channels today and it was on Comedy Central, and I was trying to figure out what amazed me so much about this movie. It is corny, dull, and predictable. The whole love story that develops throughout the movie has no chemistry, and the actors cannot convince the audience that they really belong together.Despite all of the pitfalls of this film, I will admit that there are a few points that do always make me giggle a little (i.e. "This was my brother's room...my parents hated my brother."), so I guess that's a credit to the quality of some of the jokes.All in all, I would say this is a film worth watching at least once in your life, but I wouldn't recommend buying the DVD or paying for it in a theater.