Synopsis
The life of a bank manager is turned upside down when a friend from his past manipulates him into faking his own death and taking off on an adventure.
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Cast
- Adam SandlerMax Kessler
- David SpadeCharlie
- Paula PattonHeather
- Kathryn HahnBecca
- Nick SwardsonBob
- Matt WalshShecky
- Renée TaylorMrs. Kessler
- Sean AstinTed-O
- Natasha LeggeroNikki
- Luis GuzmánJorge the Shooter Boy
Recommendations
- 67
Entertainment Weekly
The plot threads can be a little hard to follow, especially since most of them revolve around two unseen characters who are dead before the story even begins, but Sandler and Spade’s partnership gives the whole enterprise enough emotional grounding to make up for it. - 42
The A.V. Club
The Do-Over is a de facto R-rated movie for Sandler, with the attendant bad language and sex jokes, but most of the faux-naughty stuff seems like an afterthought. The jokes that work best fill in the sad details of Charlie’s life. - 40
The Telegraph
Would The Do-Over be a spectacular triumph if it’s two stars had played the material relatively straight? Probably not. But the terrible jokes wouldn’t have got in the way of all that plot. - 40
The Guardian
Despite an idiocy metastasized into the marrow of its script impervious to any radiation, there is, as with many of Sandler’s productions, at least something of an upbeat quality to its reprehensibility. - 33
Consequence
The Do-Over isn’t Sandler at his best, but it’s also not quite as putrid as what we’ve come to expect from him lately. - 33
The Playlist
It’s just as predictably mind-numbing and tedious as any other comedy Sandler has attached his name to post-“Funny People.” - 16
IndieWire
The Do-Over is atrocious, but it's atrocious in different ways than any of Adam Sandler's previous comedies. - 12
RogerEbert.com
Almost every female character is there to be screwed or to screw the guys over. Or both. This is how Sandler’s brand has always portrayed their female characters, but it’s just increasingly depressing.
