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It’s tempting to call Adam Sandler a rebel. The comedian consistently flouts
It’s tempting to call Adam Sandler a rebel. The comedian consistently flouts
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It’s tempting to call Adam Sandler a rebel. The comedian consistently flouts taste and decency in his movies, which can sometimes be a good thing. The only problem with this notion is that rebels, at some point, usually break a sweat. Sandler’s latest vehicle, "That’s My Boy", is radical only in its extreme laziness.
The actor plays Donny, a man trying to reconcile with his estranged son, Todd (Andy Sam-berg), whom he fathered with his middle-school teacher as a 13-year-old student. Sandler attempts to mine this disturbing event for comedy, but he also goes after some pretty low-hanging fruit: fat people, the elderly, immigrants, washed-up celebrities, and others. Its technique (to use the word in the loosest possible sense) is a blunt instrument.
It wasn’t, though writer David Caspe gives no indication of the level of sparkling wit he is capable of (the crass sitcom "Happy Endings", which he created). Donny’s halting, seemingly improvised on-screen speech about love—in which he describes the emotion in such a way that it sounds like the symptoms of a venereal disease—is one of many low points in the dialogue.
For his part, Sandler seems out to top his performance in last year’s "Jack and Jill", which garnered the comic not one but two Razzie Awards (for worst actor and worst actress). Sporting a mullet wig that looks left over from "The Wedding Singer" and recycling his trademark accent—an annoying hybrid of brain-damaged redneck and dirty old man—he packs enough painful screen presence for three people.
Once again, Sandler shows himself to be a loyal friend, casting such pals as Nick Swardson and Peter Dante in tiny parts that drain all evidence of talent from the performers. "That’s My Boy" also features such has-beens as rapper Vanilla Ice, singer Tony Orlando, veejay Colin Quinn and actors Ian Ziering, Alan Thicke and Todd Bridges, along with fellow "SNL", veterans Will Forte and Rachel Dratch, miscellaneous Sandler family relatives, vaguely familiar-looking former jocks and other assorted hangers-on from the comedian’s stand-up days.
Sandler’s Happy Madison production company is like a one-man employment agency for people who have no other reason to be on camera. Of that bunch, Vanilla Ice, playing a good-natured caricature of himself, turns in the funniest performance, although it’s far from professional. So is the movie itself funny? Some people—including me—managed to appreciate a dumb joke or two. Sandler has his partisans, but the aggressive awfulness of "That’s My Boy" seems calculated to test even their patience. As one disgruntled-sounding viewer muttered on the way out, "Sure, I laughed, but I didn’t feel good about myself afterwards."
From The Washington Post, June 15, 2012 [br] Which one is NOT the element that Sandler attempted to add into his act?
选项
A、fat people
B、immigrant
C、elder people
D、funny kids
答案
D
解析
本题为细节题。从第二段中“Sandier attempts to mine this disturbing event for comedy,but he also goes after some pretty low—hanging fruit:fat people,the elderly, immigrants,washed—up celebrities,and others.”可以看出选项D的“funny kids”并未包含在其中,因此答案为D。
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