Every Adam Sandler Netflix Movie Ranked Worst To Best – Screen Rant

Adam Sandler's lucrative deal with Netflix continues with the recent Hubie Halloween, so it's time to rank each of his movies from worst to best.

Adam Sandler has now released seven Netflix exclusive movies but which are the best and the worst?Thanks to his charming and energetic personality,as well as his accessiblestyle that mixes crass humor and over-the-top slapstick, Adam Sandler's comedies have been massively popular with audiences for a quarter of a century. The same unfortunately can't be said about the critical reception of most of these films, as most of Sandler's films are labelled as bad. Critics more often than not correctly labeling them as lazy humor that caters to the lowest common denominator and this is especially true when it comes to output that's produced by his own studio, Happy Madison.

Just like any artist with a body of work as extensive as Sandler's, not every Happy Madison production that stars him is equal in quality, or lack thereof. This metric also applies to the films that were released exclusively by Netflix as part of their $400 million deal with Happy Madison.The seven Adam Sandler comedies released by Netflix so far contain the kinds of juvenile gags and jokes we expect from his Happy Madison output. However, each filmvaries enough in tone, sub-genre, and narrative drive to stand out on their own.

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As much asSandlersticks to his guns when it comes to specific tropes that are expected from his work, there's a refreshing amount of variety as well.But which ones are on par with his worst, like Jack and Jill, which ones are genuinely inspired, like You Don't Mess With The Zohan, and which ones are in between?

There's a solid, TV-MA-rated, 80-minute western parody that wears its envelope-pushing, politically incorrect absurdity on its sleeve, hiding within The Ridiculous Six's bloated two-hour runtime. Sadly, it's padded with repetitive gags that are designed to make you gag for no other reason than easy shock value, though the TV-14 rating keeps Sandler from going overboard. There are bright spots of absurdist slapstick, like a character shooting his own head aftergetting decapitated, but it's all too rare. Otherwise, The Ridiculous Six's go-to humor is divided into several cringe-inducing categories, from any excuse to mixing all kinds of bodily fluids in the grossest permutations possible to lazy and kind-of-racist puns likegiving Native American characters names like No Bra and Beaver Breath. The Ridiculous Six is not only the worst of Sandler's Netflix outings but is one of the worst films in his career.

Sandler's latest Netflix outing purports to be a lighthearted, family-friendly comedy-horror that takes place in Salem, Massachusetts -the Halloween capital of the US-, like Hocus Pocus, the other Salem-based season's favorite. Director Steven Brill manages a playful tone that finds the right line between real scares and comic relief, and Hubie Halloween's contrast-heavy cinematography is the most attractive out of Happy Madison's Netflix outings. The problem is Sandler himself, whogoes full Little Nicky and The Waterboy by creating yet another mumbling and abrasive cartoon character while expecting the audience to take him seriously whenhe switches gears into the obligatory tear-jerking territory. In many ways, Sandler's titular character, a Halloween super-fan who gets bullied by his neighbors, sticks out even more than Nicky and Bobby Boucher, since Hubie Halloween sports amore-or-less grounded list of supporting characters.Hubie Halloween carries an anti-bullying message, but it's delivered in an after school special way that practically breaks the fourth wall to make sure that the audience learned their lesson.

The Week Of, about one rich (Chris Rock) and one working-class (Sandler) father butting heads with each other about who will pay for their children's upcoming wedding, could have turned into an insightful and organically humorous study on modern class differences in the US. Co-writer/director Robert Smigel, who created Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, is certainly not a stranger to such biting satire, but the film is too toothless and languidly paced to work neither as satire nor as a madcap Adam Sandler comedy. Smigel also returns to the same well of one-note gags too often. Sandler's icky 1990s exploitation of people with disabilities to score cheap laughs gets an unwelcome reunion in the form of his character's amputee uncle (Jim Barone) freaking everyone out at the wedding party simply because of his condition. The plot gets lost in a series of 1980s sit-com-style conflicts that can easily be resolved with a single line of exposition. The Week Of doesn't rank as low as The Ridiculous Six and Hubie Halloween mainly thanks toRock's introspective performance as a broken man who gradually realizes that his entitled behavior resulted in the dissolution of his family.

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Most of the time, Adam Sandler's comedies try to cater to the family market with PG-13 material that contains crass humor but doesn't become too edgy. But every once in a while, he'll let loose with a comedy album that firmly earns its "Parental Advisory" sticker, or a hard-R-rating. The Do-Over is a fairly competent comedy-action that wears its TV-MA rating on its sleeve. Fromsimulated double-fellatio that becomes funnier as it uncomfortably drags on to a gag about hairy testicles, Sandler successfully translates the naughty man-child energy from his comedy albums to The Do-Over. There certainly isn't much depth to any of the gross-out gags, but at least this time Sandler swings for the fences. TheMacGuffinthat the odd couple protagonists are after a tablet that has the cure for cancer hidden inside it results in a plot that becomes too labyrinthine for the film's more simplistic tone, but Sandler and David Spade's commitment to the script's politically incorrect humorkeeps the pace chugging along.

For Murder Mystery, Happy Madison wentAgatha Christie bydropping two working-class New Yorkers (Sandler and Jennifer Aniston) in the middle of a whodunit full of intrigue, suspense, and the prerequisite rich and smugcharacterswho sometimes literally stab each other in the back for the sake of power and money. Ever since the first season of Friends, Aniston has perfected playing characters who are adorably uncomfortable in settings they don't think they belong in, so she's a natural fit for this material. Sandler, on the other hand, is a bit too charged and abrasive to fully sell the "fish out of water" quality of his character. Murder Mystery's glitzy style and halfway clever murder plot full of surprising twists and turns make it an engaging experience that runs a brisk 97 minutes. It's not the best Sandler comedy, nor is it the best Christie send-up, but together they result in a fairly entertaining romp.

In Sandy Wexler, Sandler pays loving tribute to his real-life manager Sandy Wernick, with this charming dramedy that sees Happy Madison and Netflix adopt a Woody Allen-esque freestyle character study mixed with the studio's trademark affinity for potty humor and broad slapstick. It's certainly an odd mix and Sandler almost blows his performance by using yet another silly voice, but the title character'slove forhis craft and dedication to his Z-list celebrity clients disarms the initial skepticism. The central romance of the story, between Wexler and his rising star singer client Courtney (Jennifer Hudson), works thanks to the natural chemistry between Sandler and Hudson. And the story's hilarious Greek Chorus, made up of the most celebrity cameos in a Sandler film to date,is the film's cherry on top. The plot goes on too many tangents and the final edit could have used a trimming by about half an hour, but Sandy Wexler earns its credit as one of Happy Madison's most compassionate outings.

This comedy special, in which Adam Sandler employs a gamut of his trademark songs laced with adult humor, edgy stand-up bits, and honest tidbits about his personal life, captures why he's endured as a beloved pop culture figure in as much of a vulnerable and unfiltered manner as possible. 100% Fresh is pieced together using footage from various venues where Sandler performed in, from a cozy comedy club to a theater full of thousands of adoring fans. Yet no matter the size of the audience, Sandler exudes his unique warmth and charisma, always making it seem like he's merely shooting the breeze with some close friends. This lack of ego in his approach turns 100% Fresh into one of his most engaging efforts as a comedian. In between the howling laughter, it's also hard not to shed a couple of tears at a touching tribute to Adam Sandler's deceased friend and SNL alum Chris Farley.

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Oktay Ege Kozak is a screenwriter, script coach and film/TV critic. He lives near Portland, Oregon, with his wife, daughter, two King Charles Spaniels, and a Golden Retriever.

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