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Big Daddy The Rewatchables
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What’s Aged the Best?

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:36:51Read transcript
  • Acceptance of Sonny’s gay friends holds up better than expected, including the child being taught to accept them.
  • Young Jon Stewart works as Sonny’s friend in a relatively small supporting part; an initial claim that he plays the brother is corrected.
  • Kristy Swanson and Leslie Mann are praised, with Mann the final preferred answer.
  • Mr. Herlihy continues Sandler’s funny pattern of confrontations with combative older men.
  • Sonny’s misguided parenting discovery—options rather than orders—is amusing.
  • The soundtrack captures its era through Sheryl Crow, Garbage, Limp Bizkit, Everlast, Big Audio Dynamite, Styx, Eurythmics, Springsteen, New Radicals and Harvey Danger.
Big Daddy The Rewatchables
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What’s Aged the Worst?

Hooters jokes about Leslie Mann’s character

In the discussion (6)
Approx. transcript time · 00:44:39Read transcript
  • The gay friends remain comparatively progressive, but their portrayal would benefit from greater nuance today.
  • The repeated Hooters jokes at Leslie Mann’s expense are the strongest choice.
  • The child’s television shows divide opinion.
  • The trick-or-treating break-in and taking a man’s watch are excessive.
  • The trial is considered long and boring, though the father’s criticism supplies welcome realism for another view.
  • Sonny’s reassuring courtroom speech to his father is unconvincing.
Big Daddy The Rewatchables
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Big Daddy

Picking Nits

Age-inappropriate TV; delivery man’s illiteracy; absent father; changed attitude toward child; unaffordable lifestyle

In the discussion (5)
Approx. transcript time · 00:54:59Read transcript
  • The five-year-old watches programs aimed at substantially younger children.
  • Rob Schneider’s character’s inability to read is questioned as a comic premise.
  • Stewart’s character remains in China after learning a child has been left at his home.
  • Leslie Mann’s character’s eventual acceptance of the child seems inconsistent with her earlier opposition.
  • A $200,000 settlement and minimal tollbooth work cannot plausibly sustain Sonny’s New York apartment and lifestyle.
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