May 29, 2025

The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer

Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review ! This week we’re dusting off our ruffled shirts and setting our time machines to the 1980s as we revisit The Wedding Singer (1998), a rom-com that’s equal parts sweet, silly, and synth-soaked.

Directed by Frank Coraci and starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore , this nostalgic crowd-pleaser finds Sandler in perhaps his most charming role as Robbie Hart, a down-on-his-luck wedding singer trying to recover from heartbreak. After being jilted at the altar, Robbie befriends Julia (Barrymore), a waitress engaged to a Grade-A sleazeball, and the two strike up a will-they-won’t-they friendship filled with awkward moments, big hair, and a killer retro soundtrack.

The Wedding Singer balances slapstick with sincerity and is elevated by the natural chemistry between its leads. Barrymore’s sweetness softens Sandler’s usual chaos, making for a genuinely endearing romantic pairing. And let’s not forget Christine Taylor , Steve Buscemi’s brilliant drunken best man speech, and Billy Idol playing himself in one of the most gloriously absurd plane-based finales ever filmed.

The movie also serves as a love letter to the 1980s, cramming in everything from breakdancing to New Wave fashion to Wall Street-era villainy. It’s unashamedly sentimental, but also knowingly daft—like a mixtape of cheesy love songs and punchy jokes that somehow hits all the right notes.

Whether you grew up in the ‘80s or just wish you had, The Wedding Singer delivers that warm, fuzzy vibe that makes it ideal for rewatching with mates—or maybe even at a wedding. 🎤💍🕺🍾🎬

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The Wedding Singer

Sidey: This will make someone's day, I reckon. More wedding chat. And this time it's, we're going back to 1998. Yes. Four. The wedding singer

Reegs: and in turn back to 1985. the distant

year of, you know, that's the same as what, 2065? If you

Sidey: Oh Christ. Yeah.

Reegs: Invert it, then go forward.

Sidey: crumbs.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: first thing to say, set something in the eighties, guaranteed to have a solid gold soundtrack, which this absolutely does.

Reegs: Absolute banging. Soundtrack this

Sidey: it would've been a 10, outta 10, but it has every little thing she does is

Reegs: by sting, by

Sidey: the police. Fucking worst band ever. Other than that, it's solid gold. And let's see what we think of the movie.

Reegs: And this one will come out a mere day before you yourself. Yeah. Are getting

Sidey: married.

There are no wedding singers at our wedding. No. Just a disc

Dan: and there

Reegs: But he is ditched on his wedding day, so that is still

Sidey: that's a possibility. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Dan: And I may sing,

Reegs: God, I'll feel like a twat if that.

You probably wouldn't put the episode out. I wouldn't have thought. Would you? If

Sidey: it would, it would've been out.

Reegs: Yeah, that's true. [00:01:00] Oh yeah.

Sidey: It starts with him wedding singing really, isn't it?

Reegs: Yeah. Well it's been, you spin me round. Yeah. Dead or alive. I've been singing it all day. I've been

Sidey: Pete Burns, the guy in his

Reegs: like loads of dancing.

Dad dancing. There's kids dancing. Grandma's getting Randy. There's a fat chick eating wedding cake.

Sidey: Yeah, they do some like really lowbrow humor here, don't they?

Reegs: It's like, but it's like every wedding ever, like you know, and son lase and he is got a pretty good voice.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: And his band are hilarious. He's got like a new wave synth player,

Sidey: George. Yeah. I thought he was George was obviously supposed to be,

Reegs: George Michael.

Sidey: no. Boy George.

Reegs: Boy George

Sidey: but also I thought he had a bit of Pete Burns about him as well.

Yeah.

Reegs: It's Alexis Arquette, which is was an Arquette sibling. Yeah, yeah,

Sidey: yeah. Strong. And they get Steve Buscemi up. Yeah. To, he's the best man.

Reegs: But I think, like you say, but the thing about it, 'cause like the haircuts and the styles and everything just tells you it's the eighties even before like the caption comes up.

Sidey: No, it looks great. They're gonna get. Steve [00:02:00] Chemi up to, to toast the, the happy couple. Yeah. Which descends into like complete chaos because he's, he's an addict and

Reegs: and he airs all these sort of passive aggressive grievances he has about his brother-in-law.

Sidey: He's the fuck up and he wants everyone to know that actually his bro, the groom is not perfect either.

'cause they picked up cup of

Reegs: of prostitute, at least I think they were prostitutes.

So I don't remember paying, I think is what he says.

Sidey: So Adam Saer has to step in it, it gets worse because the old man then starts shouting abuse at, at. Chemi. Yeah. It's just a complete train wreck, so, yeah. The wedding singer steps in

Reegs: He gives this impromptu, like, heartfelt speech and we learn that he's getting married next week as well.

And he talks of an emptiness in which his fiance helps him

Sidey: We've, we've seen this little kid, been

like

drinking has been helped by, like you say, by this weird guy with long hair. Probably an uncle I you say. But he inevitably has too much. And another like opportunity for the wedding singer to step in and he helps him outside while Drew BA [00:03:00] was sitting

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

And we'd already seen her a little bit earlier when RO Robbie is his name, Adam Sandler's character and his mate Sammy. Another frequent collaborator. I can't remember the actor's

Dan: They they,

like a, a bit of a cliche with an uncle drinking too much at a wedding.

Is that gonna happen at your wedding? Can you give us an early

Reegs: be any uncles

Sidey: haven't got, there's no family

Dan: who, who's, who's gonna be the

Sidey: Probably you,

Reegs: probably you, you, yeah.

Dan: Fuck. That

could happen.

Reegs: Yeah. So we've already seen Drew Barmore earlier on. They've,

Sidey: it's all a weird outfit that she's got because the, the skirt is not long enough to cover the top of her stockings.

And like frequently throughout the movie that I'm like, is that supposed to be deliberate? I don't know. Yeah. It was horny is anything, but she's sitting outside. And Adam Sand puts this guy, this young boy's head over the dumpster, so can puke. Yeah. And sort him out and says, right, you know, no more.

And she, she's looking at and going, wow, what a good guy.

Dan: I,

Reegs: They have this little meet. Cute, don't they?

Dan: here Drew Barrymore is just like a turn off for me.[00:04:00]

Not any, not anything like she was decent in et

After that I've not liked anything she's in and I will,

Reegs: oh man, I think she's absolutely brilliant and she brings like a complete

Dan: Yeah.

But you are

Reegs: Even with a completely OneNote character like she has in this,

Dan: but you are

Reegs: to life somehow

Dan: about a lot of shit and that's another thing. No, she's rubbish.

Reegs: No

Sidey: right in this you are completely wrong. I'm not the biggest fan of her in everything, but in this, she's great. They have like undeniable chemistry. Yeah.

Reegs: I

Dan: I just can't get on board with her.

Sidey: Okay.

Well get off board with this podcast.

Reegs: Anyway, through this conversation, we both find out they're engaged, getting married,

Sidey: He's super into it. Yeah, she's. In a relationship with the guy. She's into it, but the, she's like, well, dunno if he's that serious about the, she's engaged,

Reegs: but they've been engaged for two years, haven't

Sidey: she's like, we haven't set a date.

Not sure if he's that serious, really? So, but they are both obvious, clearly in a relationship.

Reegs: Yeah.

And when she talks about him, she doesn't talk about him with a huge [00:05:00] amount of affection. It's more

Sidey: No, it's, it's like a convenience. Yeah. So, sammy, what are we calling him? Robbie Robbie's wedding is in a week.

Yeah. So it's all building up to that now. Same, same cast of character's gonna be at this wedding.

Reegs: Mm-hmm.

Sidey: We've seen other stuff. Like he's teaching a, an old lady to sing. He does that sort of thing in his spare time. But come the wedding day, it's a big, you know, flash at affair. He's, he's up the front in this altar thing.

There's loads of guests and someone comes forward with an,

Reegs: his sister.

Sidey: Yeah. With a note.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Or just to tell, just saying to him

Reegs: his sister comes along to tell him at the altar, look, Linda's not gonna turn up. So he goes off to a little rim. He, he looks, he talks himself off.

Talks himself up, talks himself up in the mirror, know you're gonna be okay. And then he just trashes the place.

Sidey: I so he's, he's in the, the dust bin of life after this wallowing.

'cause he lives in his sister's baseman. He is obviously not, he's not making a lot of money doing his wedding singing, but he, he is like, music is what his passion is. Fulfills [00:06:00] him in that sense. So he's happy to do wedding singing and write songs and. Be a music teacher. Yeah. But he is not making big bikes.

So at one point he wanted to be a rock star, but now he's, he's content enough

Reegs: had a band what were they called? Final something.

Sidey: And Linda does rock up. Is it Linda? The

Reegs: Yeah.

The ex

Sidey: Linda does turn up and say, look, you're a fucking going nowhere. I can't be stuck in this deadbeat town.

You know, I need someone who's gonna help me escape this and all the rest of it. It's not you. So, I loved the version of you from like 10 years ago. Yeah. Not the version of you now. So she just kicks him into touch and

Reegs: There were a lot of clues that their relationship wasn't right, because as well, they would the sister says something about their parents died when he was young

Sidey: he's wanted to get married

Reegs: and he's always wanted to get married and have a family since then.

So it felt like he just latched onto else.

Sidey: Yeah. So he's just like, basically comatose, heartbroken in his basement.

Reegs: And Kate's married to Frank sro, [00:07:00] who you'll know from Good Fells and all sorts of stuff. And Louis the character from The Simpsons. He had a lot, a long running court dispute about, 'cause it clearly is him as, as a Simpsons guy,

Sidey: Oh, did he try

Reegs: yeah,

Sidey: do it for that.

Reegs: yeah, but it was, it was refused on the ground so that it was just a generic mob character, but it clearly does look very much like him.

So, yeah, he's the brother-in-law and tries to give him a few pep talks and stuff.

Sidey: Yeah. Julia

Reegs: up mostly talking about him fucking his sister. So,

Sidey: Julia and her idiot fucking fiance. He, he just hands out some plane tickets and says, right, we're gonna fuck off to Vegas, which is a hundred percent what I want to do.

Yeah. And she kind of accepts it, even though you can tell it's not what she wants. And he says, you're not gonna do that girl thing where you just say it's okay. But really, that's not what you want. And she's like, no, it's fine. It's cool. And then he sort of backs down there and says,

Reegs: he just instantly changes his mind.

Yeah. He's like when she, maybe it was a test when she accepts the, she'll have the Vegas wedding. He gives her the big party. [00:08:00]

Sidey: Yeah.

So,

Reegs: and he's already said a thing earlier about, it's not exactly love because he just says, oh, I know she's into me because she liked me before I got my money.

'cause he's now a big stockbroker or bonds guy or whatever. I think it's bonds.

Dan: you close to getting married in Vegas?

No,

Sidey: No,

Reegs: it wasn't on the cards.

Sidey: No. No. That was I, that was what I suggested first up when they got shot down instantly.

Reegs: So, Robbie sings into this like, massive depression.

He's singing holiday by Madonna crying and you know, everybody sort

Sidey: of loves sucks.

Reegs: Yeah. A love stinks.

Sidey: stinks. That's it. And he's just getting like. Right. Rightfully, he's getting loads of grief from the people at the wedding because they paid for him to sing and he is just tearing this wedding apart.

Reegs: Well, I think he ends up in a fight with the groom's father, doesn't he?

So, yeah, it's not a great look.

Sidey: One way to sort of pull himself round is that Julia is struggling with the whole organizer

organizing of this wedding. Yeah. Both in terms of just the amount of shit you gotta do and the cost of it.

Reegs: [00:09:00] Glen, her fiance isn't interested in it. He's like, nah, you are in, it's your big day.

You make all the decisions. It's not a good look for getting married.

Sidey: No. But Robbie's good at this sort of shit.

Reegs: I think it sort of happens accidentally, doesn't he? He ends up recommending someone for, to fill

Sidey: Well, she's at, she's still waitressing at the wedding where he's a complete car crash.

Yeah. On the mic. And so they, she still knows he's about, and she. Basically asked for his help. Yeah. And Robbie, 'cause he's such a good guy. He knows everyone. I think it's the woman who does the photography.

Reegs: That's right. Yeah. So

Sidey: he says, fuck off. I know you did it for such and such a family for two 50.

So, you know, don't gimme that bullshit about you lowest. But she's like, okay, you know, we do it for that price. And so they're having a great time and

Reegs: they're pretending to be brother and

Sidey: sister, but, but it's clearly, there's a, there's obviously a connection there.

Reegs: Well, you'd just be thinking this was pretty weird if you gave a shit as a fiance, wouldn't you, that this other dude just rocks up and starts planning the wedding with

Sidey: him. yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

Reegs: And yeah, his. Sort of spirits start to perk up enough that he gets back into the

Sidey: he plays a song [00:10:00] for her.

Reegs: well, hang on. He gets back into the sort of the not wedding singing, it's the bat mitzvah business. And Julia's there as, as a waitress at this one that gets going. And there's this kind of fact kid who's getting, he's asked a chick out and she's not wanted to do it.

So he sets up the,

Sidey: the kid thinks he's a, he's a loser, and he says, I'm a loser. That and, and someone's like, right, I'm gonna make this right. Yeah. And he sets up this sort of like, say, like a dating Yeah. Thing where Julia's gonna offer up a dance to someone.

hundreds and all the, all the guys line up and they're all

Reegs: there's that little kid.

Go pick me, Julia. Pick me.

Sidey: And wouldn't you know she picks the guy who's got self-esteem

Reegs: Yeah. And then He sexually assaults her in front of the

Sidey: and then everyone starts doing it in the room. Yeah.

Reegs: his, his face though, that actor look, I couldn't tell if he thought he was the best day ever or if he was just mortified.

He's bright red.

Sidey: Oh, I think he was having a great time.

Reegs: Yeah. And then afterwards that's when they really get into the wedding planning and I just, they do loads of stuff. Get, they hire the limo driver, but they, they get, [00:11:00] they go to see a wedding singer. It's John Lovetts as Jimmy Moore and he's doing Ladies Night.

It's so funny. It's so funny. And when the scene ends, they're like, cat, he just steps really slowly back,

Sidey: like, that.

Dan: I like that. Remember The Hangover? That was the the damn band.

Sidey: Yeah. He's good

Dan: now and then I get a little bit fucking terrified. Look in your eyes. Oh, he is brilliant.

Yeah. Every now and again. Oh,

Reegs: and then this is when he does bring out his song to Julia.

He talks about, you know, his love of music and musical storytelling, and she asks to hear his song and he said, oh, well, I've, you know, it's, it's a bit of a weird one. I was listening to a lot of the Cure. I read, I, I wrote half of it before I. Was with Linda and half it afterwards.

And it's called, somebody Kill Me Please. It's got this like gentle sort of buildup and it finishes with him screaming, but it was all bullshit. It was a goddamn joke. And when I think of you, I hope you li I've hope, think of you, Linda. I hope you fucking joke. And he's just ends up screaming about [00:12:00] losing his mind

Sidey: and yeah, she goes, oh, I really liked it.

Reegs: Yeah.

And then after that we get more montage of wedding stuff. It's to making my dreams come true.

Sidey: oh, but hold on notes. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. But what what happens is they go out so well, it is her sister,

Reegs: they have the open mouth kiss debate. Right. Which starts off a really strange bit of the movie, but they're talking about how to kiss her.

Drew Barry Moez

Sidey: can't. Tongue, someone in the church, it's, it's not appropriate.

Reegs: But then she's like, it's gotta be a little bit of tongue,

Sidey: She says, I says, she even says not open mouth kiss. Yeah. And so the debate is like, what level of intimacy do you dish out

Reegs: Have you discussed this with today?

Kaylee? You discussed it today and what, what are you going for? Tongue? No, no. Tongue.

Sidey: That's disgusting. No. No. So. is it? Robbie walks in because she's left her denim coat. Sorry. She's left a denim jacket in the limo and he's returning it just as they're talking about the kiss

Reegs: you believe it?

And she's like, oh, why don't you practice on

Sidey: Why don't you just get off of this guy who's not your fiance?

You

Reegs: amazing. Yeah. You are about [00:13:00] to get married in a few weeks. Why don't you just get off with this random

Sidey: Yeah. So they do practice it and clearly they're in love with each other. They just don't know it yet. Yeah. But I think Robbie probably is closer to figuring it

Reegs: they've got this, like Sander's got this kind of dey eyed quality the whole way through the movie. And

Sidey: you think they really, he really fan her in real

Reegs: I know. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. It seems to come through on the film. She

Sidey: looks great in this, I have to say.

Reegs: And her character is such a little pixie, like of cuteness.

Sidey: So Christine Taylor, is it her sister or just her roommate?

Reegs: I think it's her roommate, isn't it? She's Holly. She's the one who's like, everybody gets laid with Holly.

Sidey: She's, she's made out to be a bit of a slag. Yeah. She is

Reegs: Actually, it's not really, she just puts it about a bit.

But she owns that she, 'cause she was a bit like, oh you're g you know, if you come with me Robbie, you are gonna get laid. Like,

Sidey: well, no. First of all they say well why don't you, why don't you double date? And you know, then he'll get laid and she's like, just 'cause I'm going out with him doesn't mean he is gonna get laid. Then she's like. Yeah,

Reegs: yeah, yeah it does.

Sidey: So this is the big moment of the film where they do go out on this double date.

They're in a nightclub. Julia drinks too much rum and [00:14:00] she's not feeling great. So they go, the two girls go off to the bathroom. Yeah. And while they're in the bathroom,

Reegs: Robbie

kind of like disarms Glenn into kinda speaking freely, doesn't he?

About he reveals that he cheats on her because he's like eyeing up some

Sidey: he says, oh, we can't get girls like that anymore. 'cause I've got someone like that 10 days ago. Yeah. And it turns out he's just a serial cheater. He's a real asshole

Reegs: And he continue, he plans to continue cheating on Julia after

Sidey: married.

Yeah. Not what, maybe it is what he wants to hear.

'cause this could be his in, but he is not as

manipulative with

Reegs: he's not like that. He's more just like, you're a piece of shit. And I really like this girl at

Sidey: this point.

Yeah. Yeah. They have to exit because she's been sick and he drives a DeLorean, which was quite funny. Yeah.

Reegs: was that the guy who had the flock of seagulls here with

Sidey: that's when he goes, no, that's the, when he buys the plane ticket.

Reegs: yeah.

Sidey: So she,

Reegs: well, Holly and Robbie go back and she's, this is, she's like, basically, come in and fuck me. Yeah. And he, he just doesn't want to and starts talking about Julia in the middle of[00:15:00]

Sidey: Yeah. And she goes, oh my God.

Reegs: She's like,

oh my God, I can't believe I didn't see it. It's so obvious you're in love

Sidey: Yeah. and then he,

He sort hadn't realized it now that someone's, you know, explicitly saying it to him, he, he's like, fuck yeah, I

Reegs: And then to, they have a conversation where she strongly implies that Julia, her main interest in Glen is her, his sort of financial security basically because he is a big

Sidey: but they have, but he is, he

Reegs: completely misconstrued, introduces a bit of conflict about materialism into their life, doesn't he?

Because he misconstrues it and

Sidey: I thought that bit was a bit weird because we have been told that she was with him before he had money. So you're like, well, that doesn't really play out,

Reegs: It's just for the conflict this bit. 'cause he has to go off, he gives up wedding singing, goes and like joins a bank or

Sidey: doesn't

it? He goes for an interview because he thinks that yeah, that that's what, what's her name? The sister, the roommate said implied and he, so he kind of gets the wrong end of the stick. I think she's just with him out of, 'cause she doesn't, she. She doesn't know that he's a cheater and there's nothing there particularly.

She doesn't know what a great relationship is necessarily, so she [00:16:00] hasn't ended it. But

Reegs: the main criticism is she's kind of just a plot device,

Sidey: yeah.

And she makes a gift for Robbie. I. Mm,

Reegs: Music sheets.

Sidey: She turns up at the house and he's not there. And he comes back from this job interview, which he hasn't been successful at.

He's kind of down in the dumps of everything 'cause he knows he's not gonna get the girl at this point.

Reegs: And they have this big argument

Sidey: and she says, well, why are you doing that? It's never been important to you before. And he is like, well, you know, I don't wanna live in. I don't wanna live in the basement anymore.

I've gotta get out and do, which is a valid thing actually. And it, he really hurts her feelings because he says, well, that's what you are into, you know, you know you are only with this guy because he is got money. And she's like, really upset, throws the present up in the air. And he looks at it and realizes he's been a huge fucking dick.

Reegs: de bag. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. And so she goes, we get this sort of buildup to the wedding. Now she, there's a scene with her and her mother where she sort of confesses that she's not really that into Glen is she doing the right thing?

And

Reegs: And also Robbie's pointed out that Glen's last name is Glia, so she's gonna be Julia Glia, which is, [00:17:00] and I love it when he laughs at that and Glen just looks at him like, why is that funny?

Sidey: her mom's like, you just got cold feet. It happens to everyone. Don't worry. You know, you're gonna be absolutely fine. And then she's doing this rehearsal like say in the mirror where she says, nice to meet you. I'm Julia. Julia. And she starts, she starts crying and like having to say that to people and, and also in the realization that she's probably not into him anymore.

Yeah. Then she says, hi, nice to meet you. I am Julia. What's Robbie's surname? I can't remember, but something better. And as she's doing that, he's walking down the street to basically say to her that, you know, confesses feelings and all the rest of it, lay it all on the table. And he sees her in the wedding dress, talking into the mirror, looking really happy.

Yeah. Gets the wrong end of the stick. And so he is back in the basement.

Reegs: Yeah. And he goes and gets. To go

Sidey: he goes and gets pissed with his mate dressed as Michael Jackson, his thriller video.

Reegs: That's amazing. It's absolutely with the one glove. In fact, there's a load of people dressed as other people 'cause it's like, I mean, the references and stuff are stupid in this 'cause it's supposed to be set in [00:18:00] 1985, but it's basically just a parody of everything that happened in the eighties.

But

Sidey: it's got the guy from Scooby-Doo. Yeah, I think he, he did that in Waynesville, didn't he? That old fella? Yeah. He's there in the bar and he just sort of interjects with like ludicrous like comments as him and his mate, his, the limo driver having a heart to heart. And he is like, I'm not, he says, look at you, you know you're out.

Bit like Will Smith and Hitch, you know, a different girl every night. And he's like, I'm not happy though. Yeah. You know, that's not fulfilling way to live your life. Yeah. I'm lonely and miserable. You need to go and get the go. You need to go and fucking find her. 'cause, because at this point she's accepted the trip to Vegas now.

Yeah.

Reegs: And they'd already had a conversation earlier that was supposed to be telling, wasn't it about a trip to Vegas that he'd been on with, or a trip on an airplane that Robbie had been with Linda and he should have known that she wasn't the right one because she didn't offer up the window seat to him.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: and we're gonna get a, like a recall to that Mo She tests Glen and Glen fails

Sidey: Yeah. Big time.

Reegs: trip to, Vegas.

Sidey: So it's a race to get to the airport. [00:19:00] He got the guy with the flock of, he got his haircut, buys the ticket from him. Actually, the, the limo driver buys the ticket. Yeah. Which is a nice touch. He runs off and gets on the plane, but the only ticket they have is in first class.

That's right. With Billy Idol, just across the aisle there. And he's fucking hell, this is amazing. He's never, he's never been, he doesn't know what to do with the hot towel. He's, he like doesn't realize that the drinks are all gonna be free. So he is like, this is actually fucking great. And he is telling the story then to the stewardess and everyone starts listening in about this fucking douche bag guy.

And they're getting married and he loves her and they're like, oh, you've gotta go and find her, and blah, blah, blah. And the stewardess walks in and says some fucking. Can douche bags just ask me to join the Mile High Club with him. Yeah. And he looks through

Reegs: and then he, there was some, she calls back to some phrase like, called me a grade, a piece of

Sidey: that's it.

Yeah. And he,

Reegs: was something he'd said earlier,

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. And so he looks through the curtain and he sees Julia there. It's

Yeah.

And he's like, fuck, she's here. And they set up this ruse where they're going like, block him with a drinks cabinet.

Reegs: Yeah. And Robbie's gonna come out singing this great [00:20:00] song grow old, what is it called? Grow old with you

Sidey: on, on Billy Idol's guitar? Yeah. He does the block, well, the other aisles he tries to get through. And Glen's like, I think knocked out. Does he get knocked out? Yeah, he gets no, gets bundled into it. It gets, yeah, it gets

Reegs: locked into toilet.

Boy.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Whilst his girlfriend is serenaded by Robbie singing about how he wants to spend his life with her and get arthritis together

Sidey: and all that,

Yeah. But I'm 64 kind of isn't. Yeah. Happy ending.

Reegs: Yeah. And I think it literally fades out from them kissing on the airplane, their first kiss to them kissing at their wedding, and then the end of the movie.

Yeah. Everyone's there there's been a running gag about oh no, it doesn't pay off there, but So that was good.

Sidey: It's really good. This, yeah, really, really good. Great chemistry between the leads.

Reegs: you really root for them because of the chemistry, don't you?

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. But you say she's, you know, fairly thinly written, but.

It works. It still

Reegs: It's

got like a little bit more heart and soul than some of the other like Sandler

Sidey: I think this is my [00:21:00] favorite of this style of movie that he's done.

Reegs: Yeah, it's a really good one, I must say. Yeah, it's

Sidey: really good. She's great. I really thanks her in this. She looks great. The soundtrack's fucking

Reegs: The eighties

Sidey: dead sweet. You can watch this with the kids.

Dan: this once a long time ago and can't get past through

Sidey: I know you've got a problem there, but. Honestly, I think you should try to,

Dan: should. Yeah. Yeah. I, I dunno why it is just, she just doesn't, nothing. She's done personally. Never met her. Never even met, but she just doesn't really, yeah, I just, no, I don't hate her. Hate's a strong word. Just

Sidey: not a fan of her

Dan: not a fan of her work.

Not a fan of her work. Yeah. She's just something I don't believe in. When I see her, I just, I

Reegs: like the exact opposite. I find she's like a real human being on screen, which is so rare because like most people you can tell are acting no matter how good they are as an actor.

Dan: Well, I know she's acting when she's acting.

Sidey: That's great. This is great. Strong, strong. Recommend for me.

Reegs: Strong recommend. I really enjoyed it.

Dan: Well, that's, that's two and a half Strong [00:22:00] recommends.

Reegs: Yeah.