Sandy Wexler Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

1. It Doesn't Know What It Wants To Be

Sandy Wexler Adam Sandler
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Further to this point about the film's wavering tone, it suffers from a peculiar identity of crisis of sorts throughout. The script wastes no time at all fielding out pop-culture references to many decades past, but considering that the film is clearly aimed at a very broad international audience, most of this will fly over their heads.

The inside baseball Hollywood humour feels like it's in there for the cineastes, but honestly, how many film buffs are going to decide to actually sit down and watch this anyway?

In that respect Sandy Wexler feels like a film that's made a half-baked effort to pull in the "smarter" crowds as well as general audiences, but basically failed.

It wasn't all terrible, though, so here's everything that actually worked in the movie...

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