Funny and sweet, some will say, and I will not contradict them, although those of a certain sensibility might say that all the penis jokes detract somewhat from the sweetness. It's sort of long (almost 2.5 hours), and on some occasions, like the scenes involving speech acts by young children--the actual daughters of writer and director Judd Apatow and his wife, Leslie Mann, who plays Adam Sandler's love interest--you might feel a little too aware of the sweetness. As long as I'm finding fault, let me add that, notwithstanding considerable raunchiness, the movie suffers from a conventional and sentimental conception of what makes a good life: it holds out as an ideal something more like a dyspeptic Hollywood billionaire's daydream of what he should have tried for than what he actually should have tried for.
Nevertheless, nevertheless: highly recommended.
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