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I needed a break from the complicated conspiracy theories about multi-billion buy-outs and the joker finally pointing out that the empress has no clothes, revealing her naked ambition. Times like these, you need an Adam Sandler movie where the plot is simplistic, the jokes crude.

So. Adam Sandler. Drew Barrymore. 50 First Dates. Light romantic-comedy. Like their previous collaboration, Sandler and Barrymore goes for cute,leveraging on their on-screen chemistry. I mean, what’s not to like about a movie where the whole premise is hinged on making your significant other fall in love with you everyday? Everday should be Valentine’s Day I always say.

Sandler’s character is a vet practicing in a Hawaiian theme park. Barrymore is a local girl who have met an accident a year earlier which puts her short-term memory on the fritz. You see, she can’t transform her short-term memories to long-term memories. As a result of that damage, she lives her day exactly like the day of her accident. Her father and amped up brother (post fat Hobbit Sean Astin) play along with the charade to shield her from learning the truth.

Of course Sandler happens along and tries to save Barrymore’s Lucy. Of course hilarity ensues, aided by constant Sandler collaborator Rob Schneider.

Like most Sandler movies, 50 First Date has heart even if the humor might come off as a tad juvenile. But yes, it’s a fun movie. I had fun. The biggest laugh I had was when Drew Barrymore ran after Schneider with a bat. Then again I was in that mood.

Memory’s a big thing for Hollywood this season it seems. Like what I’ve mentioned to My Eternal Sunshine to My Spotty Mind, I’m waiting for that Jim Carrey/Kate Winslet Michel Gondry movie also dealing with memory. And of course there’s that Butterfly Effect movie with Ashton Kutcher trying to stretch his acting chops. Needless to say he got panned and it’s a movie you’d rather forget.