Mr. Deeds (Widescreen Special Edition) Reviews

• Mr. Deeds

  
  By A1OGPR0AKZ4K7D on 2008-03-22
  This was an entertaining movie with a sound cast. The story didn't quite measure up to the original as the remake, but there were some funny shining moments. While this is supposed to be an Adam Sandler film, John Turturro literally steals the movie. He is hilarious as Emilio Lopez the "sneaky sneaky" butler. This movie showcases his well timed comedic talent. Without his contribution, it would have been just an okay remake of a 1920's classic.
  
  
  

• Take incongruities with grain of salt, and it's entertaining

  
  By A11OMH8H4RGZ25 on 2002-09-26
  ...As the title character, Sandler is a hero we pull for, but his old screwball antics do get in the way at times. No real hero would clobber senseless a whole reataurant full of people because they ridiculed him. But here, Sandler as the title character does so in a return to his screwball persona. One might even argue that that persona goes over the top when he goes after a purse-snatcher and doesn't stop with merely subduing him but continues to beat him while he is down, with a seemingly sadistic glee. Perhaps a real hero should show some restraint in such a situation, even considering that the purse-snatching could actually be a setup, as it in fact is in this case. To buy into the heroism of Mr. Deeds, we have to do some considerable winking past these gratuitous farcically sadistic episodes. For those who can do that, the movie can be passably enjoyable. Sandler is entertaining, even when incongrously so. The movie is elevated considerably by the pleasant surprise of Winona Ryder's performance, even though her character starts out as a participant in that purse-snatching setup...MR. DEEDS should be remembered as one of the brighter spots in her uneven career. Here she puts forth a charm we haven't seen in a long time, and her acting fits well into the story. As a co-star to Sandler, she meshed with his character well, certainly the best since Drew Barrymore in THE WEDDING SINGER...She might just be the most uniformly good part of MR. DEEDS, and that gives hope for a more evenly successful career in her future. All in all MR. DEEDS is a watchable bit of entertainment for those not too put off by its incongrous swings between irreverent farce and heartwarming feel-good story and romance.
  
  

• Not his best, not his worst; somewhere in the middle

  
  By A29IYGR7SNPRIV on 2002-07-09
  Okay, so I'm an Adam Sandler fan. I admit it. I will take the pies in the face. Some of his movies are better than others. This isn't one of the better ones; it isn't the worst, either. It has some truly hilarious moments and what is, arguably, John Turturro's best performance--as the faster-than-light Spanish man-servant. Turturro alone makes this film worth seeing and, to his credit, Sandler lets him fly as one of the daftest, cleverest characters I've seen in ages. Turturro utterly, completely, convincingly inhabits the character of Emilio, complete with cummerbund and foot fetish.

  Winona Ryder is pedestrian, Conchata Ferrell (one of the great underrated actresses of all time--check out her fine performance in Mystic Pizza) has terrible material to work with; and Steve Buscemi is literally nothing more than a running sight gag. There is, however, a fire-rescue scene involving a lot of cats that is howlingly funny. The supposedly feel-good ending is pretty flat but, still, if you need a little mindless fun, go see Mr. Deeds. It's not a total waste of the price of admission.
  
  

• The Diminution of a Classic

  
  By A19ZXK9HHVRV1X on 2002-07-03
  Hollywood has done it again - plundered one of its treasures in service of the Almighty Buck. `Mr. Deeds' is, technically I guess, a remake of Frank Capra's marvelous 1936 classic `Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.' It's no surprise, perhaps, that in this less-than-literate age, the makers of `Mr. Deeds' have found it necessary to trim three words off the original film's title. But the loss of a few words is the least of this film's problems, since `Mr. Deeds' has also jettisoned the subtlety, wit and depth of the earlier film and replaced them with broad slapstick, endless pratfalls and wheezy plot mechanics that better jibe with the undemanding tastes of modern movie audiences.

  The earlier film featured Gary Cooper as the naïve country bumpkin who, upon inheriting the fortune of an uncle he never knew he had, journeys to the Big Bad City and shows the people there a thing or two about old fashioned, small town values. The remake retains the general premise of the story, but it has a hard time making a convincing case for those values since Deeds, though we keep being told what a swell guy he is, seems to be guided by a rather questionable moral code, which is that he beats the crap out of anybody he happens not to like. In fact, that seems to be the modus operandi for a number of the people who hail from his hometown of Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire. These violence-prone country rubes don't seem too ethically removed from the callous New York City big shots we're supposed to find so appalling.

  Maybe it's too much to ask that an Adam Sandler comedy tone down the raucousness a bit, but the pratfalling and mugging do get to be a bit wearying after awhile. Sandler conveys a certain tone of befuddled charm at times and Winona Ryder does a nice turn as the somewhat ditzy reporter who first deceives, then eventually falls in love with this strange man from an alien world, but one only needs to see Cooper and Jean Arthur in the original roles to see how ADULTS would behave in the same circumstances. (In keeping with the semi-literate nature of the times, the Arthur character has been changed from a reporter working for a newspaper to one working for a tabloid TV news program).

  In fact, every element of the original shines in comparison to its counterpart in this remake. The title is not the only thing here that has been dumbed down.
  
  

• "You're sick! You're sick! Why would you do that???"

  
  By A15S44J4NHU4LS on 2002-07-01
  Remember that line from the trailers where Adam Sandler tells his butler to whack him on his frostbit foot? Or what about the scene where he carries the old man across the street to the post office? How about playing tennis with Peter Gallagher? And who could forget the staged mugging with Winona Ryder? I bet you got a good laugh from the trailers. Sadly, you've seen the best of the film. I kid you not. Apart from the plot twist at the end you could smell a mile away, there's nothing else worth watching in this film. Harsh words, huh? Don't get me wrong. I do find Adam Sandler funny from time to time. But for an actor who got paid $25 million for this film, he could've tried a little bit harder. The acting was non-existent. His role as the guy who gets rich and wisens up to the world around him is so repetitive it becomes a grind to watch. And that voice! That whiny, whiny voice. Arghhh!!!

  Back to the film. The plot really is very simple. A media mogul named Blake dies while on a climbing expedition and the closest heir happens to be Longfellow Deeds, a smalltown pizza delivery guy. The CEO convinces him to go to New York City for a few days to sign some papers that hand over Blake's 51% stake in the company (by selling his shares to the board). Naturally, this story would totally bomb without some sort of romance tossed in. This is where a news reporter (played by Ryder) pretends to be a smalltown girl to spy on Deeds. Love develops and well that's all I can say without giving anything away. (Oh, by the way Rob Schneider makes two cameo appearances once again as the foreign cook. I so enjoyed Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo more than this film.)

  (Surprisingly, another comedy starring Adam Sandler called Punch-drunk love won the equivalent of Best Director for Paul-Thomas Anderson in this year's Cannes Film Festival.)

  I cannot recommend this film to the readers unless you just want to stay out of the rain for an hour or two.

  LEAP rating (each out of 5):
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  L (Language) - 3.0 (juvenile language, actors who don't even try)
  E (Erotica) - 0 (n/a)
  A (Action) - 1 (Deeds does do a few good deeds that might be considered action)
  P (Plot) - 2.5 (an ending you could predict a mile away)
  
  

• What the.........!?
  By on 2004-06-16
  Here's something you don't see everyday: an expectation that a movie will be good based on who stars in it being completely shafted. Actually, I get that feeling quite a bit, but never like this. Adam has been in some great movies (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, and, despite what everyone else seems to say about it, I loved Little Nicky). However, this movie is complete garbage, and those responsible for this Godforsaken piece of crap should be burned at the stake. I guess this was supposed to be based on an earlier version of this movie (Mr. Deeds goes to town or whatever), and I hope to God that movie is at least 100X better than this waste of space.

  Let me get right to the point. This movie tanked from start to finish. Few movies have accomplished this, but this one does so as if doing so is a no-brainer. What I remember of the beginning is lame and boring, the freaks that Adam hangs around must have some sort of mental retardation (if you've seen the movie, you know I'm not talking about stupidity that is funny, but just plain retardation that sucks), and H-O-L-Y CRAP Winona Rider is in the movie; nuff said! The best part of the moive (and I say best only to emphasize how bad this movie is) is when Rider's character kicks the overweight pizza store manager in the crotch, and she says "What are you kickin there for? I ain't got no b*lls!" Geeeezzzzz.......I couldn't even try to laugh at this nonsense; what was Adam thinking? By the way, Adam is very mellow in this movie (except for a couple of scenes where he beats someone up, but it's not even near funny this time), just like in Waterboy, but without the lousy accent (thank God!). He writes poems for greeting cards for Christ's sake!!! How much more of a loser can you be? I guess he's trying to model himself after Jason Biggs (which is about as low as you can go). Just get me a gun so I can put this movie and myself out of our misery!
  
  

• Move on.
  By A1KBYHP3MIRPV on 2004-11-01
  Originally a movie made in 1936 about a Tuba Player from Vermont who went to the big city. It later became a television show in 1969 till 1970... and then in 2002 it was turned into a travesty by the worlds worst comedian Adam Sandler. Honestly, I used to like Adam Sandler... but after like 5 of his movies, that are all basically the same thing "Adam doesn't have money." "Adam needs money." "Adam gets money." "Adam is a good guy." "Hooray for Adam." - I wasn't sold on "Mr. Deeds." I felt bad for John Turturro. This movie was CLEARLY below him. Supporting actor to Adam Sandler?!? John Turturro was by far the funniest part of the movie. Adam Sandler was still doing the same tired, played out comedy. Move on.
  
  
• MR. DEEDS DVD
  By AO4J90YPX5RU6 on 2002-10-24
  AFTER SEEING "MR. DEEDS" THREE TIMES ON THE BIG SCREEN IT WAS APPARENT THAT I WOULD BE PURCHASING THE DVD UPON RELEASE. EVEN AFTER A FORTH VEIWING THE MOVIE WAS STILL FUNNY AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINNG TO ME. SOMETHING THAT IS ALSO FUNNY TO ME IS WHEN I HEAR SOMEONE SAY HOW MUCH THEY LOVE ADAM SANDLER AND HIS MOVIES, YET THEY DON'T LIKE THIS ONE. "MR. DEEDS" IS ONE OF (IF NOT SIMPLY HIS BEST FILM) SO FAR. IN ADDITION TO SANDLER.. A GREAT CAST WAS FORMED. YOU'VE GOT WINONA RYDER IN A DELIGHTFUL PERFORMANCE, JOHN TURTURRO STEALING SCENE AFTER SCENE, PETER GALLAGHER IN A NASTY ROLE AND A HILARIOUS ALLEN COVERT. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THIS FILM WAS REMADE FROM A FILM THAT WAS MADE IN THE 1930's (MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN) DURING THE DEPRESSION ERA. THIS 2002 REMAKE IS EVERYTHING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND MORE. MY THOUGHT IS LETS NOT COMPARE THIS WITH THE 30's CLASSIC. LETS JUST LAUGH AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. ALL IT TAKES IS A SENSE OF HUMOR. DVD FEATURES: WIDESCREEN / 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL / COMMENTARY / DELETED SCENCES / THREE FEATURETTES / DEEDS GRETTING CARDS (which can be emailed to friends ect.) / DAVE MATTHEWS BAND MUSIC VIDEO / FILMOGRAPHIES / TRAILORS / & MORE
  
  
• This was so disappointing...
  By A1WOFFWF8UYPJ2 on 2002-10-28
  Sandler plays the title character as a friendly, trusting, romantic who's only dream is to be accepted as a writer by Hallmark. Much to his surprise he has suddenly inherited millions and has to travel to New York City to get the money. The movie then becomes the proverbial fish out of water as the nice guy is subjected to all the horrors of the big city.

  I was so horribly disappointed with this movie. When I saw the trailers I thought it had the potential to be hysterical, much like Water Boy, Happy Gilmore, and Big Daddy. Unfortunately the laughs were only there and not evident at all throughout the rest of the movie. The story seems to have been a leftover script from Saturday Night Live which just opens and doesn't go anywhere. The characters are weakly developed, if at all, and the dialogue is ridiculous. Furthermore there is no chemistry whatsoever between Sandler and the female lead, Winona Ryder.
  
  

• One star is too many
  By A2LICSQ2IFE3C5 on 2003-08-23
  Mr. Deeds isn't funny, the love story has zero chemistry, and the ending makes no sense. You'd think that a comedy without laughs would at least have something to look at, or a story. But no. There's nothing here. Okay, Adam Sandler has some charisma and John Tuturro does a good job. But I never want to see this movie again. Seriously, The Matrix had more laughs.
  
  
• Oh where oh where has "Mr. Deeds" gone?... to Crapville, USA
  By A1FD8LITJZE48V on 2003-12-26
  I didn't really know there was a old "Mr. Deeds" film starring Frank Capra, Jr. Well sorry Frankie, Adam Sandler really screwed you with this bland, horribly written remake.

  Sandler is not really the problem, he's talented, but it's the people around Sandler that turned this movie to a piece of junk. I'm so stupid that when I saw this in theatres, I kind of liked it. That's because I was stupid then, and not now.

  This film gets dumber and dumber. The plot has Sandler as Longfellow Deeds, a pizza maker and wannabe poet who inherits $40 billion dollars from a dead uncle. Who has $40 billion dollars, honestly? Oh yeah, Bill Gates. I don't want to tell the rest of the plot because it's not worth telling. The film has shoplifter Winona Ryder(sorry) as a journalist falling for Deeds. Ryder is not good, because the film is not good!

  This crap has too many stupid jokes that it would make a 5-year old go away. I could smell crap just by looking at this film. Sandler get yourself new material, as well as new filmmakers, because this crap deserves to be in the toilet, not on TV.
  
  

• Deeds, in deed.
  By A3AXGJLEGKER3X on 2002-06-30
  Typical of an Adam Sandler movie, Sandler once again plays the part of a likeable and simple good guy. Mr. Deeds, directed by Steve Brill (little Nicky), is the second time Sandler and Brill have hooked up. The results are classic Sandler; laughs, tears, moral, outrageous clean and wholesome fun...etc.

  In Mr. Deeds, Sandler plays the part of Longfellow Deeds, a small town pizzeria owner who inherits 40 billion dollars. The story then has him trying to manage his new business empire, and life, while at the same time trying to stay one step ahead of various New York sharks circling for the chance to defraud Deeds of both his money and his reputation.

  There was some excellent acting by Winona Ryder. I first noticed her as the teenager Lydia Deitz in the 1988 Michael Keaton film, Beetlejuice. Ms. Ryder has grown. Oh, my how she has grown. She plays the part of a TV newsmagazine producer who has been assigned to get the dirt on Deeds. And while this story line is predictable, they fall in love, he finds out what she is up to (you know the stock boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy looses girl...every movie does this) yet I found it heart warming just the same. Sandler has always played the hurt puppy well.

  For simple fun, laughs, tears, and entertainment, do the deed and see Mr. Deeds. Recommended. Cammy Diaz A @ L
  
  

• Sandler's Best Movie Yet--- from a die-hard fan
  By AEHP8TBO11JX7 on 2002-11-08
  Adam Sandler has always been my favorite actor. His movies are all similar, in which he usually plays a character who is either slightly retarded or a big loser. Nonetheless, his characters have all been hilarious. In Mr. Deeds, he strays from his normal character to a nice, small-town guy who owns his own business and is loved by everyone. Sandler proves that he can be just as hilarious when playing a completely normal character. When he is told that he has inherited 40 billion dollars from an uncle he didn't know existed, he acts as though nothing unusual has happened and remains the same guy who everyone loves. He goes to New York City with the managers of his deceased uncle's company and gets the rather stiff servants in his uncle's mansion to loosen up. You can't possibly have a sense of humor if you don't explode with laughter when an extremely old man yells, "BOOB!!!" in a hallway that echoes. John Turturro plays Emilio, a hilarious addition to the movie. His character is an adorably funny servant who befriends Deeds during his stay at the mansion. Besides being funny, the movie has a nice love story within it. Winona Ryder plays Babe Bennett, a reporter, and although she originally manipulates Deeds into thinking she is someone else in order to learn personal information about him, she falls in love with the compassionate small-town guy that he is.
  Adam Sandler's movies are usually pure comedy, with the exception of few (such as Big Daddy) but in Mr. Deeds, he delivers just as much humor as we have come to expect from him, as well as a solid, wholesome plot. I give this movie five stars, and two thumbs up to Mr. Sandler.
  
  
• Not Sandler's best movie to date......
  By A1A7VS5J7OR71D on 2002-06-29
  I have seen many of Mr. Sandler's movies.....Happy Gilmore, Waterboy, Big Daddy, the Wedding Singer & BIlling Madison to be more specific. At the end of the day I found the movie to be very humorous, as most of Sandler's flicks are, but the movie doesn't hold up vs. his prior works I had seen (I think due to the concept.)

  The movie, in case you don't know, is about a guy from a small New Hampshire town and how he inherits $40 billion from an Uncle he never met. A reporter seduces him via lies, he falls in love with her........everything they do is in the tabloids......she finally confesses.......and, at the end of the day she begs for forgiveness after he leaves and donates his $40 billion to the United Negro College Fund. I won't ruin the ending but the movie is very straightforward, it has some good laughs but, as I said before, I don't think that this movie holds up vs. Mr. Sandler's prior work.

  I love Adam Sandler because his movies attempt to bring out the inner child in adults through great delivery of jokes, pranks, humor and his mocking of the circumstances we seem to get ourselves into. One of the good things about his movies is that adults and children can watch them together and both get tons of laughs without dirty language and offensive material. Mr. Sandler and his writers seem to interlace some adult humor into their films, which most kids would miss, but it definitely makes his movies more enjoyable for the adult movie goer.
  
  

• Mr. Deeds makes the eyes smile and the heart chuckle
  By A1Y2FFU3GNENSW on 2002-10-11
  Mr. Deeds is a great movie. It's not intelligent or powerful or anything so lofty. But it is a sweet, silly and very fun movie to watch. Adam Sandler is perfect as the kind-hearted small-town boy experiencing big city life for the first time. Winona Ryder is fantastic to look at and fun to watch. She shines. But the character who steals the show is John Turturo as the butler. His bit parts are big scene stealers. I liked this flick so much I saw it at the theater twice. It is a feel-good movie with some real tender parts and is filled with under-keyed hilarious moments. I like Adam Sandler's raunchy humor, but it is very cool to see him play such a great nice guy. And don't worry, some of the humor in this movie is downright "weird" like only Sandler can deliver. I loved this flick!
  
  
• Mr. Deeds is Mr. Dud
  By A1MG56X36JEZKO on 2002-12-16
  I didn't find a single funny scene in this flick. how can they produce such garbage and actually sell it. winona ryder whom I usually like was pretty bad here too. save your money. There is nothing clever about this movie. This is defintely one of the worse movies of all time. I could not believe they call this a "comedy". Three thumbs down!
  
  
• So bad I stopped watching halfway through
  By A3KC0Y4T0BF2J9 on 2003-01-04
  I have enjoyed most of Sandler's movies and therefore expected to like this one, too, especially since the word of mouth was good.

  However, I found it so bad that I stopped watching in the middle.

  Although every movie takes liberties with reality, some of them go too far. This is one of them, and that's the primary reason I disliked it.

  To begin with the 82-year-old man who freezes to death at the top of Mt. Everest could not be lifted off by a helicopter. No helicopter ever made can hover at that altitude. There might not even be one that can fly at that altitude.

  Secondly, Sandler's character reveals a blackened foot that had been severely frostbitten years ago and invites the butler to wail on it with a fireplace poker. He can't feel the pain. Okay, fine, but that doesn't mean beating on the foot with a heavy iron bar wouldn't damage it.

  Then we see Sandler's character climbing the side of a building to save a woman whose apartment is on fire. How could he possibly be so agile with such a damaged foot? That's a rhetorical question because, of course, he couldn't.

  Lastly, Winona Ryder's character, a tabloid journalist, poses as an ordinary person in order to get close to Sandler's character and secretly record his activities with a hidden camera. Yet the tape we see was shot from positions she couldn't possibly have been in. (Like three stories high in the case of the apartment fire.)

  And it defies credibility that Sandler's character doesn't figure out after the first incident that Winona Ryder's character did the taping defies credibility.

  This movie is a real stinker. I gave it one star.
  
  

• Phony and cheesy
  By A2DHFG0D38I4BN on 2003-02-03
  I was honestly confused during this movie. A typical Adam Sandler movie is filled with gross humor, and not so nice people. This movie was totally the opposite, but it wasn't good. The actors were fake, predictable, and the plot was very weak. I'm not sure if Adam meant to play his character in a phony, cheesy way, or if he didn't know how to play a nice, regular person. I think that he should stick to his normal roles. I wouldn't suggest you see this movie because it's not very good quality, and you'll want to turn on another movie right after, due to the lack of entertainment.
  
  
• Career nadir for its leads
  By A1EI65WJC85U68 on 2003-03-13
  In this embarressing modern update of the 1936 classic MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, Adam Sandler plays small town pizzeria owner Longfellow Deeds, the recipent of a $40 billion inheritance from his uncle. Naturally this newfound good fortune leads to a media blitz, and reporter Babe Bennett, a.k.a. Pam Dawson (Winona Ryder) goes undercover to try and uncover some "Dirty Deeds" to print in her sleazy tabloid.
  MR. DEEDS is stupid and juvenile even by Sandler standards.Example: Deeds's left foot has turned black with frostbite and as a result he has no feeling in it so he encourages his butler to whack him with a fire poker. This is just as inept and unfunny as FREDDY GOT FINGERED's "paraplegic whipping" scene.
  Other low points include Sandler and Co's awful rendition of Bowie's "Space Oddity" and the dreadful poem Sandler recites at his uncle's funeral. (His real dream in life is to write greeting cards). On the other hand Winona Ryder is horrible in this. She looks attractive, but that's all. There are also cameos by Rob Schneider, John McEnroe (who is an AWFUL actor) and Steve Buscemi as "Crazy Eyes", a bug-eyed lunatic who likes pizzas with bizzare toppings. (Don't the writers realize the Ninja Turtles craze ended over 11 years ago?). Even by Sandler's standards MR. DEEDS reaches a new low. It makes HAPPY GILMORE look like DUCK SOUP. This provides the hard evidence that the promise Sandler showed in THE WEDDING SINGER was just a flash in the pan. But the movie had the potential to be even worse: Pauly Shore could have been the lead.
  
  
• JOHN TURTURRO STEALS THE SHOW...
  By A1L43KWWR05PCS on 2003-07-21
  This is a re-make of Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town". Though it is not anywhere nearly as good as the original, and Adam Sandler is no Gary Cooper, the original Mr. Deeds, the film is a decent enough production in its own right with some funny moments.

  The story is about a very nice but naive, small town guy named Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire and writes greeting card poetry as a hobby. He finds out that he has inherited forty billion dollars from a long lost, deceased uncle, who ostensibly had no other known living relative. So, Deeds is off to New York City to see about the administration of his new found mega-bucks.

  While in New York he becomes the target of the tabloids, and his decent, small town values are made to look foolish, and he is mocked by its more sophisticated denizens. When ambitious journalist, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), goes undercover as a small town girl, setting up a false scenario and identity to meet our new billionaire and boast a journalistic coup, she ultimately finds herself falling in love with Deeds, charmed by his innate goodness and sincerity. Unfortunately, by then, the damage is done.

  Pete Gallagher is suitably smarmy as Chuck Cedar, the CEO who is looking to take charge of Deeds' media empire. Erick Avari, as Cecil Anderson, an attorney and Chuck Cedar's accomplice, has his own comedic moments. Adam Sandler is, as always, Adam Sandler. He plays the role of Deeds as that of a simpleton and is, at times, funny without being too sophomoric. Winona Ryder is adequate as Babe Bennett but is no comedienne, and she takes a backseat to Jean Arthur, who played the part opposite Gary Cooper in the original version. Moreover, there is absolutely no on screen chemistry between Sandler and Ryder.

  It is John Turturro, however, who shines in this film. In the role of Emilio Lopez, the deceased uncle's butler, he is truly funny, stealing the show in nearly every scene in which he appears. He is the one true shining star in this otherwise run-of-the-mill remake and the one reason for seeing this film. Look for cameos by Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, and Al Sharpton.

  If one overlooks the somewhat ham-handed direction by Steven Brill, the unsubtle script by Tim Herlihy, and avoids making comparisons to the film on which this one is based, one will enjoy this movie, if only for John Turturro's hilarious, scene stealing performance.
  
  

• What Would YOU do for a Klondike bar?
  By A2C5LA07JCDWTN on 2003-07-21
  Some people will do anything. Apparently, Adam Sandler hit his creative peak during his mid-twenties. Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy were passable comedies. But, Mr. Deeds is just an embarrassment. The movie is just not funny, flat out. The only scene that I even snickered at was when Deeds and Johnny Mac are drunk and tearing up Manhattan, and I was only laughing because it reminded me of the Sandler of old in Billy Madison. Sandler as a total goofball can be admittedly funny but it seems that he is trying hard to become a "diversified" actor (see Punch Drunk Love). To make matters worse, Wynonna Ryder couldn't act her way out of a bag either, so you can pick your poison. She's so bad that you want to reach through the screen and place duct tape over her mouth. Anyway, avoid this film at all costs even on cable or free tv, it's such a waste of time. For Shame, Adam Sandler, For Shame...NOT RECOMMENDED.
  
  
• Boring!
  By A1B7HB2XV9GRJP on 2004-10-20
  Come on now. There are a few parts in this movie that did make me laugh, but Adam Sandler himself did not have one funny line through this whole movie. Pretty much, a small town guy named Longfellow Deeds inherits 40 billion dollars from his dead uncle who owned a radio empire. An undercover reporter tries to get information from him and gets it, then Deeds finds out shes a reporter. In the end she feels guilty and they end up together. Its just so boring and stupid.
  
  
• *1/2 of 4. The drunken brother of Mr. Rogers.
  By A22HH9MII1OMY2 on 2002-07-06
  MR. DEEDS *1/2 (Adam Sandler, Peter Gallagher, Rob Schneider, Winona Ryder, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Steven Brill) PG-13.
  COMEDY

  Steven Brill and Adam Sandler remake the Capra/Cooper classic "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" and not only murder half the title, but the spirit as well.

  Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds, a pizzaman who inherits 40 billion dollars from his late uncle whom he never knew. Deeds ends up moving to the Big Apple, becoming a media icon, and hands out handfulls of thousand dollar bills as chump change. He also falls in love with a snoopy reporter (Winona Ryder) who goes undercover with the name of Pam Dawson. Deeds is faced with discovering his true love is only after his story, his uncle's company is being thrown over and dimolished by a sleezy executive (Peter Gallagher), and the rest of the world thinks he's a menace to society.

  The dry humor of Mr. Deeds is blase, pathetic, 10-year old humor that generates laughs here and there, but the latest Sandler character is too sweet, too kind, too much away from Sandler's usual character. The story is a mix of recaps, retreads, and old plot devices. The romance between Ryder and Sandler is like watching Disney cartoon characters interact. Mr. Deeds is low on laughs and high on... maybe its just high. I have to admit this is Sandler's best performance as an actor, but its a terrible character for the type of movie he's in, considering he doesn't generate a whole lot of humor. Mr. Deeds is one of his worst films. I was more interested in the character "Crazy Eyes" (Steve Buscemi) and Sandler's sneaky buttler (John Turturro). They generate the most laughs. If Buscemi's character has been the lead character in place of Sandler's, with Buscemi winning the loot, and earning all the attention, the film would've been funnier. As it is, Mr. Deeds seems more like the drunken brother of Mr. Rogers.
  
  

• Why is everybody saying that this movie is terrible???
  By A3JE09BFYN39DE on 2002-07-11
  I saw Mr. Deeds today with a few of my friends and we all really enjoyed it. Yes, I know it didn't contribute to the same sort of laughs we got from Happy Gilmore or The Waterboy, but it was kind of nice to see Adam Sandler acting with a little bit of "seriousness" in him and at the same time kicking some butt like in Happy Gilmore. I don't see why people are downgrading this good movie. If you haven't seen this movie yet, or you're unsure because of other reviews, then give it a try because I would really recommend this movie to most people.
  
  
• Mr. Deeds Rocked
  By A3U1S5KR287T3I on 2002-10-15
  This movie is about Longfellow Deeds who inherits a lot of money from a dead relative he never met. I can't believe it got bad reviews, because my sister and I loved it. It was hilarious but also touching. It is definately worth seeing!
  
  
• Hilarious!X3
  By on 2002-11-17
  I love Adam Sandler movies, so naturally I had to see Mr.Deeds. Adam Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds, a small town pizza place owner who inherits 40 billion dollars from his great uncle who dies climbing Mt. Everest! The movie is hilarious from the time Sandler enters through the end. Winona Ryder (Is it me or does she seem to get younger and even more beautiful?) plays a TV news anchor who, at first, is only interested in the story that Deeds is worth. She eventually falls for him and you all know how things go from there. Anyway, this movie is definitely a must see for all Adam Sandler fans or for lovers of heartwarming, gut-busting comedies.
  
  
• Simply a bad movie.
  By A2EQJQ72RXXH3I on 2002-12-20
  Mr. Deeds is, quite simply, an awful movie. Sandler has done some funny stuff in his career and some really bad stuff in his career. This movie is near the top of the 'bad stuff' list. It's no secret that Sandler is not an actor so because of that, I would expect a very funny script to help make up for that fact. There is hardly anything funny in the movie. Even his high-powered co-stars can't save this one. I wouldn't recommend anyone rent this movie, let alone pay money to own it.
  
  
• About as charming as a toothache
  By on 2003-07-31
  So I guess Sandler bought the rights to Capra's classic and immediately cast himself in the starring role. First big mistake. Sandler is as winning a protagonist as Weird Al would be in "It's a Wonderful Life." He's no Gary Cooper. I wonder if he even watched the original.

  And no, Winona is no Jean Arthur.

  The original depression-era rags-to-riches classic is here reduced to an annoying "I'll show you" vehicle to make Sandler's fans cheer but the rest of us to ask, "What were they thinking?"
  
  

• godawful
  By A82LIVYSX6WZ9 on 2003-10-17
  lame jokes and no laughs make a godawful comedy. if you think this is funny rent Cradle 2 The Grave. one of Sandler's worst
  
  
• It's a Shame that a Zero-Star Rating is not Available
  By on 2003-12-01
  Life is too short to waste viewing such a sophomoric, dim-witted remake of a truly great movie, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Do yourself a favor and watch the original instead.
  
  

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