10 Great Movie Duos Who Reunited And Made Garbage
3. Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore
The Good: 50 First Dates & The Wedding Singer
The Bad: Blended
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore have a fairly strong case for being the more modern version of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan - albeit with a few caveats. Sandler is a lot more goofy and annoying and Barrymore tends to be a lot more affably loser-like than Ryan. But their easy chemistry and how easy it is to root for them puts them in the same bracket.
For The Wedding singer and - in particular - 50 First Dates, that chemistry is wonderful to watch and their romance in both cases is completely spell-binding. There's vulnerability to them both and genuine laughs to go along with the heart-wrenching stuff.
Sadly, while Blended has its moments, it was almost universally panned and there's too little around the central pair's chemistry to suggest the film-makers bothered to think of anything other than smushing them together and expecting the same results as their past glories. It just doesn't happen and the film ends up being testament to how well written the other two actually are.