If someone were to count lines spoken by each actor, I suspect that Adam Sandler's Sonny talks three times as much as the rest of the cast added together. That's not a good thing. He just never shuts his mouth; every scene has Sandler shooting off his yap in a bored monotone that's like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard. Sonny becomes the foster parent of a kid named Julian to impress an ex-girlfriend. Pathetic premise: exploiting a child for a self-serving ulterior motive is not funny. Sonny's efforts to bond with Julian consist of annoying the kid and you with his ever-moving mouth. Also, he takes the kid on humorless visits to Hooters. A new girl comes along, and the predictable schmaltz between Sonny, girlfriend, and kid begins. All the while Sandler continues to jabber on. Throw in some subplots of Sonny fighting with his room mate's fiancé, his parasitical living off of a lawsuit settlement, and you have this "touching" movie about a guy who gives you no reason to like him.
Then a plot twist emerges in the film's last-ditch attempt to make something out of this foster parent story. A court case occurs which is (apparently) intended for touching emotion, but pads itself with stupid people yelling out in court for no reason, and other slapstick that doesn't evoke laughs. Some irrational contrivances at the end are forgivable, given the approach of the movie, assuming you haven't shut the movie off before this. Flawed, has a few moments, enough to give it a 4.
Then a plot twist emerges in the film's last-ditch attempt to make something out of this foster parent story. A court case occurs which is (apparently) intended for touching emotion, but pads itself with stupid people yelling out in court for no reason, and other slapstick that doesn't evoke laughs. Some irrational contrivances at the end are forgivable, given the approach of the movie, assuming you haven't shut the movie off before this. Flawed, has a few moments, enough to give it a 4.