Family honeymoon: Sanders and Barrymore do it again

Adam Sandler is one of the most prolific actors and producers in Hollywood. Despite the fact that I rarely match the type of humor in his stories (because it tends to repeat itself, sometimes it's very cheesy, other times a bit silly), I must admit that Sandler is one of the few mainstream producers who knows about truth how to make a movie profitable. Almost every year we see a film by him on the screen and, like any author in constant motion, we end up with terrible things like Jack and Jill or pleasant surprises like A Fake Wife. Throughout this journey, Sandler has had great comedic actresses as partners, beautiful and talented women who make him be like a kind of James Bond of the genre (because he always ends up with a different girl in each story). Reviewing his filmography, without a doubt, one of his most iconic couples has been Drew Barrymore, to whom he owes two of his best films: The Wedding Singer and The 50 First Dates. Thus, after 10 years apart (yes, oddly enough, The 50 First Dates is a 2004 film), the Sandler-Barrymore duo returns for the third time in Family Honeymoon (Blended), a comedy that, despite Despite being the weakest in this trilogy, it's not bad at all and it fulfills its mission: to make us laugh as a family without major complications.

The story begins with a blind date between Jim (Adam Sandler) and Lauren (Drew Barrymore), a widower and divorcee who haven't dated anyone for quite some time and who feel quite uncomfortable with the situation. Things don't end well and Jim flees the site swearing they would never see each other again. After this incident, we follow the daily life of Jim and Lauren, we discover that they both have children and that their relationship with them is often not the best; On Jim's side, due to the absence of a mother figure, he does not fully understand his 3 daughters and on Lauren's, her ex-husband never shares with their two children. Thanks to being single parents, both of them completely dedicate their lives to dealing with their children, which nullifies them sentimentally speaking. Without planning it, Jim and Lauren meet again and again in different scenarios until, by twists of fate, they end up attending -separately- a vacation trip to Africa with their respective children without suspecting that they will get it. Thus, Jim and Lauren together with their children end up living together for a full week, making both families learn a lot from each other, complementing each other and living an unforgettable experience.

Family Honeymoon is directed by Frank Coraci, in charge of other Sandler comedies such as The Wedding Singer -where Barrymore and Sandler met for the first time-, the tragicomedy Click and the guily pleasure of many The Waterboys, films that make up the Top 10 of the best of Sandler. On this occasion, unlike previous works such as They are like children, the leading couple assumes the baton, changing the support of the typical eccentric secondary characters within Sandler's filmography to give it to children, which is a success thanks to its characterization of characters quite extravagant. Compared to other comedies, Family Honeymoon is one of Sandler's most innocent films (light humour, few sexual references, few scatological jokes and puns), at the same time, it is one of the most aesthetically careful -like everything else. is set in Africa, there are many moments of documentary-style contemplation, which makes it more of a family film than a comedy for friends (a departure from slightly more crass films like Zohan). Without being the best film from the Sandler-Barrymore duo, it is one of the best Sandler has made to date and is a well-suited option to share with the whole family.

Best: The chemistry between Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, two greats of light comedy. The children of the couple in the film steal several moments of the show. The moments with Terry Crew singing. The small cameos of other typical characters in Sandler's filmography.

The bad: The last half hour gets overly dramatic, momentarily forgetting the fluid rom-com pace it brought. The complete absence of Rob Schneider. There are many moments that seem recycled from A Lie Wife. Verdict: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore do very well in this new comedy. Within their filmography, if The Wedding Singer is a 5 (for being the genesis of Sandler's romantic comedy) and The 50 First Dates is a 4.5, Family Honeymoon gets a 3.5.