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A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way. It's a fish out of water, rags to riches story that has local tabloid reporters salivating.
No amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper [Sandler] ain't.
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
June 28, 2002
Film Threat
Sandler barely expends any energy trotting out the "average dude who shakes up stodgy high society" schtick, and director Steven Brill and scripter Tim Herlihy follow lazy suit.
December 06, 2005
Rolling Stone
It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.