Summary
- "The Wedding Singer" is the highest-rated movie featuring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, with a 72% review rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 80% audience score.
- "50 First Dates" may not have been their best work, but it has gained a cult following and is considered a classic romantic comedy.
- Unfortunately, "Blended" fell flat and received poor reviews, with a low 15% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics. However, it did not affect the friendship between Sandler and Barrymore.
After working together in several movies, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore have built an easy rapport and chemistry that people love to see on screen. Their collaboration goes as far back as the '90s and the two actors have remained close friends. Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler's chemistry and camaraderie often fool people into thinking there is something more, and luckily for fans, these feelings carry over on-screen.
What most people think about when it comes to Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler is 50 First Dates. The 2004 romantic comedy saw the pair working together for a second time and creating magic. Yet it turns out that 50 First Dates was not the highest-rated movie featuring both Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler.
The Wedding Singer Is The Highest Rated Drew Barrymore And Adam Sandler Movie
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore's first collaboration still reigns supreme
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore have appeared in three movies together as co-stars and love interests. The 1998 classic The Wedding Singer ranks at the top of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore movies. The film holds a 72 percent review rating on Rotten Tomato and 80 percent on audience score.
The Wedding Singer stars Sandler as Robbie Hart, a down-on-luck wedding singer, and a down-to-earth waitress, Julia Sullivan (played by Barrymore), and how they fall in love. The turbulent path to getting together is sweet, funny, and classical.
The film was a hit in theaters, making over $100 million against an $18 million budget. It would also introduce fans to Sandler and Barrymore's electric on-screen chemistry, which would be the start of a great collaboration.
Adam Sandler was praised for his character as something out of the norm for a comedic actor. Barrymore was praised for her interpretation of a woman who still had an innocence and a fairytale belief in love and happiness.
While on the set of the film, the co-stars quickly became friends, and Adam Sandler refused to have an intimate scene with Drew Barrymore for The Wedding Singer, although he commented it's because he is 'not good at s*x.'
While the movie holds a high score, it is the least in box office earnings. People don't often count the 2019 rom-com Isn't It Romantic due to the pair only making an uncredited cameo as themselves.
| Movie | Rotten Tomatoes Score | Box Office |
|---|---|---|
| 72% | $123.3 million | |
| 45% | $198.5 million | |
| 15% | $128 million | |
| 69% | $48.8 million |
Nevertheless, The Wedding Singer will go down as one of the best works of both Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and that's thanks to their believable chemistry.
50 First Dates Has A Cult Following
It wasn't their best work, but 50 First Dates struck a nerve
50 First Dates was the first reunion project of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The 2004 romantic comedy played on the familiarity of the actors, bringing back to the screen the healthy on-screen chemistry between Barrymore and Sandler.
In the film, Barrymore played Lucy Whitmore, a woman with short-term memory loss. Sandler played a marine veterinarian, Henry Roth, who was in love with her. The film centered on Sandler's Henry courting Barrymore's Lucy every day because she keeps losing her memory every 24 hours.
The ensuing antics and the romance easily hook the audience, making it one of the best parts of 50 First Dates.
The movie performed decently on its budget of $75 million. It also received an average score of 45 percent from Rotten Tomatoes critics and 65 percent from its audience score. It is an average-rated movie, but it has gone on to become a classic romantic comedy that people don't see anymore, even inspiring several remakes in countries around the world.
Sandler and Barrymore also won the award for Best On-Screen Team at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. The pair called themselves professional soulmates and their favorite collaborators.
The movie was a turning point for both Sandler and Barrymore because it showed they fit right under rom-com actors. Their style of easy, relatable romance laced with silliness proved that Sandler and Barrymore were truly the perfect pair to collaborate in movies.
The movie also came in a period in Hollywood where there was a demand for good-natured romantic comedies and an influx of them. Therefore, 50 First Dates was able to leave a mark, becoming a movie with a cult following.
With the success of the film, naturally, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore believed they could continue their streak of magic.
Blended Wasn't Exactly Third Time's The Charm For Drew Barrymore And Adam Sandler
Blended only fell flat despite featuring both Drew and Adam
Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore collaborated for the third time in a mature romantic comedy, Blended.
The co-stars may have thought a third time would be the charm ten years after releasing 50 First Dates, but that was not the case.
The 2014 romantic comedy had widower Jim Friedman and divorced Lauren Reynolds taking their three and two kids, respectively, on a 'blended family vacation.' The adults had started on the wrong foot with a terrible blind date, but during the film, they fell in love and made a 'blended' family.
While Blended had a more modern twist and representation of large families, it failed to hit the ball out of the park. It was poorly received; it got a low 15 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, with a 64 percent audience score.
The reviews for Blended were also not favorable, calling it the least good work of Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. Even though Drew Barrymore has passed on an Adam Sandler movie before, the pair thought Blended was a great reunion after their last film a decade prior.
Nonetheless, the bad review and rating of the movie did not ruin their friendship, and Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are still open to collaborating should the right project come along.
