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4. The Prologue Profanity (And Ula's Beating) - 50 First Dates

50 First Dates Ula
Sony Pictures

50 First Dates is fairly harmless on paper, but it has a couple of fairly grown-up moments that work so well - in comic terms - because they clash with the harmlessness so awkwardly.

First, we get the prologue in which several women - and Kevin James - announce that they all had short-lived holiday romances with Adam Sandler's Henry Roth, including one of them announcing delightfully that he "pounded" her "like a mallard duck". In the otherwise uninspiring universe of Sandler movie dialogue, that might as well have been written by James Joyce.

And then there's the delightful scene where Rob Schneider's Ula stages a mugging to allow Henry to seduce Drew Barrymore's Lucy only for it to backfire and her to ruin him with a baseball bat. It's a simple gag that works because of the intensity of the violence, and there's no way it would be deemed "Clean" enough.

It just seems silly.

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