I don’t know what’s worse: the fact that this movie made a ton of money on its opening weekend (you slap Sandler’s name on a comedy and it’s an automatic gold mine) or the fact that the movie was actually made. All of the cliché stuff is in here, folks. Sandler falls in love with a woman while he’s faking being gay. All of their straight friends turn weird and start treating them differently when they find out that they are “gay.” There is some pro-gay stuff with the use of the word faggot and Sandler knocking out a preacher outside of a gay party.

You get it, right?

Throughout the movie both men are put in situations surrounded by the extremes, which climaxes with the two men walking into City Hall to defend their gay nuptials. On one side is a bunch of gay men wearing flamey clothing and on the other side are a bunch of straight religious folks. Blech. And as I’m sure you can imagine, all of the situations where their “friends” turn on them wind up reconciled at the end of the movie.

In addition, Sandler’s character says and does some absolutely horrendous things regarding James’ deceased wife. Granted, James’ character is way too tied up over his wife’s death, but some of Sandler’s comments and actions were just gross. Another part of the shallow plot.

I only watched this movie because I managed to see it for free. But otherwise, folks, I would stay away from this one or save it for some type of movie night or something. Yeah, the funny scenes are a really funny. And there are a bunch of cameos from guys like Steve Buscemi, Dan Akroyd, Nicholas Turturro, Rachel Dratch, David Spade, and Lance Bass. But the shallowness of the story and the obvious storyline progression is really hard to watch.

My recommendation? Funny movie. Not worth going to see in the theaters or buying on DVD.

The best way to describe it is to think of it as an old sitcom. It starts out with a lot of humor, takes an unforeseen twist, then it gets very serious and everyone learns an important lesson, then it ends with some more humor. Henry Winkler is in it and he does a good job of playing Sandler’s father. Also, Rachel Dratch has some very short but very funny scenes in the movie. And Sandler is, of course, a great character in this movie. He plays the prototypical “nice guy” who is just looking for a break. Playing such a character puts him in a situation where just about every guy in the theatre understood what position he was in…you know, because we’re all nice guys!

And I would be wrong not to mention how good Christopher Walken is in the movie. I won’t give away what his final role is in “Click,” but it’s a lot more interesting when he tells you his real occupation.

Great movie that I would recommend for anyone. Go see it!