The end result isn't dreadful, but it is patchy.
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05/28/08
Mr. Deeds (2002)
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Reviews Counted:153
Fresh:33
Rotten:120
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: This update of Capra doesn't hold a candle to the original, and even on its own merits, Mr. Deeds is still indifferently acted and stale.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler) is content to run his pizzeria in the cozy New Hampshire hamlet of Mandrake Falls. His only further desire is to someday see one of his corny rhymes printed in a... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Peter Gallagher
Director: Steven Brill
Reviews for Mr. Deeds
Top CriticThe star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.
06/24/06
Top CriticHow could Adam Sandler, of all people, remake Capra? Well, shoddily, as it happens.
03/30/03
Top CriticA remake so bad it will make your gums bleed. Orphanage fires are funnier.
11/19/02
Top CriticWhen you've already made something as execrable and universally loathed as Little Nicky, why stop there?
11/03/02
A very stupid film that's almost watchable but doesn't really have any reason to exist.
10/24/02
There's a price to pay for the guilty pleasure Steven Brill's film affords -- a relentless process of dumbing down that tells the audience it's cool to be a doofus.
10/08/02
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04/29/09
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.
12/06/05
Anyone with an IQ over 85 should stay away.
09/30/05
Peter Gallagher must've been hard up for cash.
02/01/04
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01/12/04
Just another Sandler movie, nothing more, nothing less.
01/07/04
This is a remake which will vaguely satisfy the Sandler faithful and have Capra fans gritting their teeth.
05/20/03
...Perpetuates [Sandler's] penchant for idiotic, schoolboy humor, misunderstood-nice-guy characters, and plots which insult the intelligence of anyone over 12.
02/08/03
The only saving grace about Mr. Deeds is its functioning as a wise and timely cliche': money can't buy everything--especially for a clunky comedy with no spirit or no spark.
02/04/03
The film delivers as promised on most levels; however, it does help to be an Adam Sandler fan to begin with.
12/17/02
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11/16/02
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.
10/21/02
The plot is moth-eaten, the jokes lame, the action sequences idiotic to disgusting, and the whole adds up (or subtracts down) to a complete waste of time.
10/21/02
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