Inheriting about 40 billion dollars from his uncle inspires his life, as Deeds, an ordinary man who owns a small pizza restaurant and a sensitive poet, who upon inheriting his uncle, moves into the big city, where he buys a large house and begins a new work, but he struggles against saving his money from villains.
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.
Film Threat
December 06, 2005
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.
Rolling Stone
July 01, 2002
It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.
