That's My Boy 2012

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: A thousand times better and funnier than Jack and Jill, Sandler's last movie, yet still falls short of actually being good... Read more

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: If someone told you about almost every joke in That's My Boy, you would think they were either a sociopath or a budding serial killer. Read more

David DeWitt, New York Times: Mr. Sandler manages a frame or so of genuine sentiment, and the caricature is so ugly it's cute. He's a performer, and there are moments when audiences will surrender to his shtick. Moments. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: At least give That's My Boy credit for fully earning its R rating. The film represents the horny, stoned, drunk id lurking behind the freshly scrubbed shenanigans of the Happy Madison brand. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: I know, when Sandler's not trying he's an easy target, and he's not trying here. But honestly, this is one of those movies you feel stupider just for having sat through. I think I'm already worse at math. Read more

Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe: How did American comedies come to rely on raunch rather than wordplay? Read more

Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Despite their assorted vulgarities and lack of polish, the films of Adam Sandler are remarkably consistent in their own particular way. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Even with 87.5 years to go, the 21st century may never see a stupider comedy than That's My Boy. Read more

Adam Graham, Detroit News: Sandler's Berger is the most loutish, annoying character he's come up with since "Little Nicky." Nicky came from hell; viewers of "That's My Boy" will feel like they're in it. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: On some level I marveled at the conviction that Adam Sandler pours into playing a character like Donny Berger, a boneheaded, loud-mouthed alcoholic loser from Boston. Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch something funnier than That's My Boy. It's a video of my mother being torn apart by bears. Good day. Read more

Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter: Director Sean Anders and screenwriter David Caspe follow the game plan adequately enough, but the movie is overburdened with incidents that prove only mildly amusing. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Is it time for Adam Sandler to stop appearing in his own movies? Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: Surprisingly mean-spirited from start to finish. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Most of this is just gross without being funny, full of the go-to jokes (fat people running! old people talking dirty!) that only dirty-minded kids would laugh at. Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: That's My Boy isn't a comedy about a regressive '80s burnout who never grew up, but a paean to the virtues of remaining the same vulgar, bullying nincompoop at 40 that you were at 14. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: It truly does take a village of idiots to get these films made. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Vulgar, tasteless, mean-spirited and most offensive of all--not funny. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It points you toward the irresistible conclusion that for all his success Sandler feels only contempt for his audience and tremendous insecurity about his own stature in the comedy universe. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Central to the movie's deficiencies is Sandler's inability to create a comic character. Read more

David Germain, Associated Press: In short, we get Sandler, doing what he always does, with whatever edge he once had continuing to erode as he ages and looks sillier at what he's doing. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Lowbrow comedy goes subterranean in "That's My Boy," a product of the Adam Sandler movie factory unpolluted by a trace of ambition or wit. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Forced laughter is the only kind you'll hear during "That's My Boy," between the long stretches of slack-jawed silence. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Will be construed by the faithful as an embarrassment of riches and by the rest of us as cruel and unusual punishment... Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Vulgar, trite, sexist, misogynist, hacky, tacky, gross, sentimental and stupid, with occasional flourishes of racism and veiled homophobia thrown in to boot. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out: The basic joke keeps on giving and the sweetness of the parent-child bonding scenes plays well. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: There's an undercurrent of anger and nastiness throughout that's frankly disturbing. Humiliation is the name of the game. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Another bottom-of-the-barrel raunchfest that is bound to make far more money than such sludge could ever deserve. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Puerile, crotch-fixated and very occasionally, inanely funny, Adam Sandler's raunchiest star vehicle in years has a small saving grace in Andy Samberg's performance. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Sandler's latest wicked pissah, a paean to let-it-all-hang-out party-guy sloppiness... Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The script sometimes seems to have been written by a 13-year-old. Read more