Ordinarily I find Adam Sandler a bit annoying, and immature, but when paired with Drew Barrymore (who I also find quite irritating), they somehow produce some of the only romantic comedies I enjoy. Most recently there was ‘50 First Dates’ but their earlier effort was ‘The Wedding Singer’, set in 1985 around the world of matrimony and producing many laughs and sweet-hearted moments.
As soon as love interest in introduced, Sandler’s characters grow up and become charming, as opposed to the grotesque simpletons of ‘Waterboy’ and ‘Little Nicky’. Barrymore’s similar sweetness is a nice compliment and the two make very nice, pleasant, slightly cheesy romances.
Here, Sandler is a wedding singer, providing entertainment for all the weddings in the local area and soon to be married to his high school sweetheart. Barrymore is working as a waitress and looking forward to her own wedding to a bigoted city worker. When Sandler’s bride fails to show, unable to accept his ‘failure’ as just a wedding singer, he is destroyed, but through the friendship of Barrymore he starts to put his life back together and the two draw closer, until – naturally – they fall in love. It’s a simple plot and the humour is often simple too, it’s just that everything is so nice and heartwarming. I’m not sure I could even say why I like this film…perhaps it’s the classic 80s soundtrack or the cameos from Sandler regulars, or maybe it because deep down I like to see two decent people fall in love just as much as the next man.
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