Who, exactly, is the demographic of Adam Sandler's movies?

[terrya]

His new one looks to be just as stupid as his last one.

Terry, who just doesn't understand Adam Sandler's appeal.

[Chan790]

1. frat-boys and morons.

they're all stupid. They appeal to the same demographic as Superbad and Knocked Up which are also stupid.

Chan, who was a fraternity man in college and suspected that some of his brothers were future Darwin award winners.

[arcadian]

2. Superbad and Knocked up aren't that bad.

Sandler however sucks

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. Disagree about Knocked Up and Superbad.

I had assumed they would be very Sandler-like, but I actually loved them, as well as the 40-Year-Old Virgin.

[Norwood]

29. Completely dissagree with you on Superbad and Knocked up

Completely different than an Adam Sandler flick.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. People who think Rob Schneider is too cerebral.

[DS1]

5. do-rag wearing douchebags who shop in Rabrrrrr's private coffee store

:)

[terrya]

8. Yeah, that sounds about right.

:-)

[Zuiderelle]

27. That's exactly the target audience.

[datasuspect]

6. i hear the french avant garde is replacing jerry lewis with adam sandler

[BarenakedLady]

7. People I don't care for usually.

[kwassa]

9. Makes me worry for the future of this country.

[Jimbo S]

45. For me that would be Larry The Cable Guy

[Shell Beau]

10. Well, I for one, find some of his stuff funny.

Some of it is so silly that it is stupid, but sometimes senseless comedy is refreshing. Sometimes it gets old.

[Bunny]

12. Hey you! I was going to start a thread this morning to ask if you'd been around lately.

How are you doing? :hi:

[Shell Beau]

13. Doing just great! How 'bout you?

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. My brother worked with him on "You Don't Mess with The Zohan"

(it was originally, You Don't Mess with Zohan and he got BabyG a backpack that reads like that) as a location scout and got to know him quite well. (he bought him a pair of shoes!) He doesn't really get them (the movies) either but says Adam is a nice guy who hasn't really let the fame (he's worked on a few of his movies) get to his head. That's all I got.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

30. I saw Adam Sandler when he filmed Waterboy at my college.

He seemed pleasant enough when he was talking to the group of us. A bunch of fratboys wanted him to go to their party, and he said "Oh, you don't want to invite me to a party. Trust me." It was weird because he said it in that timid little voice of his.

And, yes, I think his movies are mostly mindless fluff. But harmless. Good rental material or catch it if its on TV and you're bored material. Nothing more and nothing less.

[KitchenWitch]

14. 14 year old boys.

[sasquatch]

20. **DING DING DING DING** WE HAVE A WINNER!!

:applause:

[Iggo]

15. Hmmm....

At first blush I'd say the target audience is male children, and adult males who want to act like children for a couple of hours.

[Shell Beau]

17. And some adult females who can get really silly!

:o

[datasuspect]

16. the target demo is 18-25 year old white males with disposable income.

[redqueen]

18. I liked The Wedding Singer.

But I watched it on cable one morning when I was really interested in watching another love story.

I've never gone out of my way to see one, so... not me I guess.

:shrug:

[Flaxbee]

24. I didn't think Spanglish was bad, either - but he wasn't playing

his usual idiot character in it, so perhaps that's why I liked it.

The Wedding Singer definitely had its funny moments, and Drew Barrymore was cute in it, too. "Julia Goolia?"
Maybe I liked it b/c it spoofed 80s music, too - my high school era music. I think that's why I also found "Music and Lyrics" (with Drew and Hugh Grant) funny, as well.

[redqueen]

26. Music and Lyrics eh?

The next time I'm in the mood for a sappy silly romantic comedy, I just might check that out. :)

[raouldukelives]

33. If you could stand one more Sandler flick

I'd suggest Punch Drunk Love. I thought it was a really well done romantic comedy.

[redqueen]

36. Oh yeah... I liked that one a lot.

:)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

37. I still don't understand Punch Drunk Love.

And whether I just hated it, or secretly admired it for being so damn confusing.

[fishwax]

41. Punch Drunk Love was Adam Sandler meets Arthouse

It was a really great film, because Paul Thomas Anderson brought his own skills, vision, and intelligence to bear on a Sandler film. I thought it worked very well, both as a film that stood on its own and as a sophisticated satire on Adam Sandler films. :)

Welcome to DU, raouldukelives :toast: (love the username :hi:)

[LynzM]

19. Hrm.... "not me"?

I dunno, I haven't really enjoyed any of the few I've seen, that much.

[Blue-Jay]

21. I dunno, but his fight-scene with Bob Barker was hilarious.

I'd give most of the credit to Bob Barker, however.

[redqueen]

25. Yes!

Can't remember what movie that was in... but yes, that was extremely good. :)

[Jimbo S]

44. Happy Gilmore

I attended a TPIR taping and an audience member asked Bob about it. Bob said he gets asked about it at every taping.

I hadn't seen the film before, so after that I rented it just to see what it was about.

[raouldukelives]

22. Always liked Sandler

Even when he was on SNL. I am a sucker for infantile humor however. Stooges, Mel Brooks, Young Ones etc.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. George W. Bush

[Wetzelbill]

Bush is more of a Chuck Norris guy

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. Chuck Norris isn't funny

Neither is Adam Sandler, but... :shrug:

[Wetzelbill]

40. yeah but Chuck is Bush's favorite actor

Sandler would be too sophisticated for him. But Sandler can be funny. He can also be pretty horrid.

[HEyHEY]

28. His relatives and friends.

[Critters2]

31. Middle school boys. nt

[Wetzelbill]

32. Hell I have a video degree and I own a few of his films

I'm a film snob too. His earlier stuff is hilarious, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer. He's been hit and miss alot since then. Like his latest films, I doubt I'll even watch them. It just depends though, like I grew up watching him on SNL, so did my younger brothers. I'm 33 and the youngest brother is 23, that's probably his best demographic. He has some hilarious stuff though, not exactly rocket scientist work, but funny.

[fishwax]

42. I agree with a lot of that

Happy Gilmore and the Wedding Singer were funny movies, but a lot of his later stuff veers off in one of two directions--either he's playing aggressively against type, as if trying to prove he's capable of something more than sophomoric humor (Reign Over Me, Spanglish), with mixed results; or he's playing even more aggressively to type (the new one), as if trying to prove that he's still young and cool and silly--but based on the previews, the movies in this vein seem to reproduce (or exacerbate) the worst characteristics of his early movies, but with no originality or balance. They look like disasters, to me, and I've no interest in seeing them.

Punch Drunk Love is a bit of an exception--PTA took a somewhat typical Sandler character/plot and revealed how good it could actually be :)

[Dr. Strange]

34. Right here:

[IndianaJones]

35. I liked Reign Over Me. nt.

[jobycom]

39. I like him alright.

Waterboy was hilarious. Zohan looks cute. I don't like him when he gets too silly, but I don't like any actor when they do that.

I've never seen him at the theater, but I'll watch him on video or cable if I've got nothing better to do. And I'll enjoy it. I can't think of anything he's done that was worse than Ferris Buehler's Day Off or The Lord of the Rings trilogy, so he's got that going. I'm probably a minority there, but so be it.

Maybe that's his target. Bored late-night tv viewers who have reached the bottom of their Blockbuster stack and aren't yet ready for sleep.

[Fox Mulder]

43. Junior high boys, I'm guessing.

The only two I like by Adam Sandler are Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer.

[mitchum]

46. Mooks

[bigwillq]

47. I like some of his movies.

I loved more of his earlier stuff like Billy Madison and the Wedding Singer. I really liked 50 First Dates too.

But some of his more recent stuff has seemed really silly. I thought that Zapped (I think that is the name) looked awful. I didn't see it though.

[SOteric]

48. The target demographic is

'18-30 year-old, upwardly mobile persons with more disposable income than good taste.

[triguy46]

49. Anyone who is not catching a ball game but wears a ball cap backwards.

I see these guys everywhere. 40 year olds with a backward ball cap. Nuff said.