Adam Sandlers Movie Failures Prove He Needs Silly Voices And His Friends

Adam Sandler’s Movie Failures Prove He Needs Silly Voices And His Friends

Hubie Halloween has proven a hit for Adam Sandler, and the film’s success proves he needs his oft-derided “silly voices and friends” formula

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Adam Sandlers Movie Failures Prove He Needs Silly Voices And His Friends

Hubie Halloween has proven a hit for Adam Sandler (with audiences more than critics), and the film’s success proves that the actor needs his oft-derided “silly voices and friends” formula. The recent Netflix release Hubie Halloween is another return to ribald broad comedy for screen veteran Adam Sandler, and the film has a lot in common with his biggest box office hits.

In fact, Hubie Halloween is a catalog of Sandler’s most visible tropes: Funny voices; a goofy main character who is desperately immature and forced to finally grow up; a cadre of familiar faces seen in countless other Happy Madison productions who play supporting characters and are also Sandler’s real-life friends. The film follows all the big beats of Sandler’s reliable hit-making formula, even if Hubie Halloween may still be different from other Sandler comedies.

Every time a new Sandler comedy comes out, the question of why the actor insistently relies on “funny” voices and casting his friends in each release despite critical scorn invariably comes up again. And that is for good reason, as a lot of Sandler’s films are critically reviled for following exactly this formula. But Sandler knows the value of both his funny voices and his cast of friends, and so does anyone aware of the actor’s decades of box office receipts. In the movies where Sandler went out on his own without the support of co-stars like Kevin James, Rob Schneider, or David Spade shows that the actor’s forays into more serious dramatic roles simply do not result in big box office hits for him, and it’s no coincidence that these are also the movies the actor didn’t do a silly voice in. When these movies are compared to Sandler’s financially successful (but critically dismissed) Netflix films, it becomes clear that the actor’s critically-lauded dramatic turns don’t draw in the large audiences of his crass comedies.

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Sandler has starred without his friends or a silly voice in Paul Thomas Anderson’s dramedy Punch Drunk Love, James L Brooks’ understated rom-com Spanglish, the 9/11 drama Reign Over Me, Judd Apatow’s dark (and misleadingly-titled) Funny People, the Chad Kultgen adaptation Men, Women & Children, 2015’s The Cobbler, Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories, and Sadfie brothers drama Uncut Gems. Mostly dark dramas, these all rank among Sandler’s best and most critically-well-received films, with even the divisive Cobbler faring better with reviewers than many of the actor’s biggest hits. They all, however, tell another story too: they’ve rarely been as popular as the other films he makes.

Even Funny People, a Judd Apatow movie made at the height of the Knocked Up director’s popularity, failed to recoup its $75m budget, and none of Sandler’s serious films have made an impact remotely comparable to his biggest financial successes. Notoriously, Uncut Gems was ignored at the Oscars despite the $19m movie earning a solid $50m. That was record-breaking for indie distributors A24 but pales in comparison to the success of Sandler’s 2019 hit Murder Mystery, one of Netflix’s most-watched original movies ever. Murder Mystery was a goofy slapstick comedy where Uncut Gems was an intense crime drama, proving that without silly voices and his recognizable cast of co-stars, audiences don’t know what to expect from the actor.

While Sandler may strive to be recognized for his dramatic acting, he’s never committed to transitioning into serious roles. The likes of Jim Carrey and Robin Williams won over critics with Dead Poet’s Society and The Truman Show, but the pair also had to weather dramatic flops like Patch Adams and The Majestic. Sandler, however, has consistently retreated to his comfort zone of “no too childish, not too grown-up” comedy like Hubie Halloween whether his dramatic efforts are successful or not. It’s a shame when the likes of Uncut Gems have proven he is a superb dramatic performer, and That’s My Boy proved that the comedy route isn’t an infallible financial winner for the actor. That said, when taken across Sandler’s career the numbers don’t lie—with The Waterboy making $190m on a $23m budget and both Grown-Ups movies raking in over $250m despite costing only $80m each, it makes a lot of sense for Sandler to stick with his reliable formula. Maybe those Hubie Halloween voices aren’t so silly after all.

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