In the SNL skits and silly comedies that made his bones, Adam Sandler acted like a slightly funnier version of that guy who cracked you up in English class, a likeable, friendly doofus who’d be a lot of fun to have a beer with. But he’s always struck me as meaner and more complicated than that, a passive-aggressive alpha dog who stays on top at least partly through bullying and intimidation. Comedians are always competing with and riffing on each other, so it might be too harsh to call what Sandler does bullying, but I left his latest movie, Grown Ups, feeling as if Hollywood had given me a great big wedgie. To read more, click here.
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