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Article: WOULD YOU WANT ADAM SANDLER RAISING YOUR CHILDREN?(L.A. LIFE) (movie review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 25, 1999
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Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic
Adam Sandler's latest flush of the pop-culture plumbing, ``Big Daddy,'' is actually a sweet little rip-off of Charlie Chaplin's ``The Kid'' and its 800 or so imitators.
Sandler is back in the lovable loser mode of ``The Wedding Singer,'' which is always a welcome change from his other Neanderthal screen persona. The boy, played by 6-year-old identical twins Cole and Dylan Sprouse, is suitably sad-eyed and adorable - and good at substituting w's for r's (``wock n' woll'') in the way that makes women go ``aw.'' Even the inevitable upchuck is attractively candy-colored.
But since originality and sophistication never ...