Released: 9^th April

Cert: 12a

Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore

I'm not going to waste anyone's time here. If you like Adam Sandler films, you should like this. If you don't you won't.

I like Adam Sandler movies. Yes, he plays the same character; yes, the humour is scatological; yes, the plot tends to be formulaic. They are 'sit back and switch off' films.

Henry (Sandler) is a waterlife vet living and working on Hawaii . His love life is based on romancing visitors so there is no lingering guilt when dumping time arrives. Then he meets Lucy (Barrymore) and there's that little spark between them. When he gets blanked by her on their second meeting he discovers that she had an accident a year earlier and now suffers from short-term memory loss and the events of each day get wiped clean each time she goes to sleep at night.

Her family has been living the same day for over a year in an attempt to save her from the horror - unfortunately they have to suffer the horror of watching 6^th Sense every night. Henry tries a new tact of telling her the problem every morning which then makes everyone's life better.

This is a film that laughs at the situations arising from the affliction rather than laughing at the people who have it. I was pleasantly surprised by the humanity displayed when we do get to see the suffering of those around Lucy trying to keep her life together.

As per usual the support cast looks like a 'we're Adam's mates, we are' convention: Rob Schneider (who I found quite amusing for the first time ever), Allen Covert, Blake Clark, Peter Dante, and Jonathan Loughran; all of whom have been in most of Sandler's other films. Also stars Sean Astin as a lisping body builder and Dan Aykroyd as Lucy's doctor - a sympathy role I think.

A mushy, schmaltzy end was inevitable but it didn't end as bad as it could have and the walrus was brilliant.