When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
1 Jul 2002
rotten:
Let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line: Stay home.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
2 Jul 2002
rotten:
No amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper [Sandler] ain't.
– Hazel-Dawn Dumpert,
L.A. Weekly,
21 Oct 2002
rotten:
The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.