Torrin-McFinn77 I'm not a big, huge fan of Adam Sandler, but this was my first of all the films I'd seen with him in it. I avoided it while it was in theaters that summer and heard a lot of bad things about it, but I rented it that fall and to my surprise it was entertaining. It's not only funny; it's also touching and very interesting as we see Mr. Sandler go from lazybones to model citizen. Well, maybe not model citizen, but at least he compensates through the movie. I won't say how for those of you who still haven't seen it. But if you want a good comedy and haven't seen an Adam Sandler film, start here!

studioAT Your enjoyment of this film will be based on how favourably you rate the main actor, Adam Sandler.For me he's OK in small doses, and of all his films this is perhaps where he's most likable, interacting well with the Sprouse twins.It's not a great comedy though, and despite some nice moments is largely forgettable.

jimbo-53-186511 Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) is an unemployed layabout who claims that he is unable to work due to an accident he had involving a cab from 2 years ago. Sonny is a self-absorbed individual who generally thinks of no-one but himself much to the annoyance of his girlfriend. However, when a 5 year old boy named Julian (Cole Sprouse) ends up on his doorstep, Sonny claims to have adopted Julian in order to try and win back his girlfriend and prove himself worthy of her affections. Whilst Julian is in Sonny's care, Sonny does some growing up himself in the midst of some rather questionable antics as a caretaker parent.The marketing for this film was always questionable; the film poster shows Sandler and the boy standing in front of a door and urinating against it. In this respect it does itself no real favours as there may be many people that decide not to watch it because it looks like it's going to be crude and juvenile from the poster. In fairness this isn't completely inaccurate as there are some aspects of the film that are a bit juvenile and crude, but the actual bulk of the film is quite charming and sweet and fairly enjoyable and I'm just puzzled as to why a fairly sweet-natured film was marketed so poorly. Anyway I digress...Sandler's comedy films have sometimes proved problematic because some of the characters he has portrayed have been unlikeable or unsympathetic. In Big Daddy though, as things progress it becomes fairly obvious that Sonny's actually an OK person that just needed a bit of a kick up the backside. Looking after Julian gave Sonny a purpose in life and as mentioned it gave him the kick up the backside that he'd needed for the last 2 years. The chemistry between Julian and Sonny was also really good and the two of them share both funny moments and tender moments - I thought that Sonny telling Julian that wearing sunglasses meant nobody could see him was a funny idea and quite sweet as well.There are some weaknesses to this film; firstly a lot of the acting here is rather mediocre (although Steve Buscemi was good fun in the limited screen time that he was given). The film was also a little too light on laughs for my liking - although the warmth and charm of the picture compensate slightly for the slight lack of humour. The film also gets very soppy towards the end and I also found some of the character shifts to be a bit dubious. The script offers few surprises and is fairly predictable, but I always say it doesn't matter if you know outcome B at point A as long as you generally enjoy everything in between and that pretty much sums up my feelings about this film. It's hardly Oscar-worthy, but it has some funny moments, it has some charm, and it surprised me by being better than I expected it to be.

2karl- well we meet sonny who goes around with out a care in the world with no responsibilities living with his girlfriend but has a job in toll both but his girlfriend dumps him because he has no career goal and she goes out with a guy years old but sonny wants to prove he is past his childish ways as you see sonny brother going to china he finds out his brother has child from someone knocks on his door and gives him a child but his brother does not it so he say he is Barry Gareth so he is the worst person for parenting cue funny and touching moments as he messes with child with insecurities like live nudes in his bedroom the homeless man Steve buscemi the half an our breakfast time difference in McDonald's time and weeing on restaurant doors plus go up to women to chat them up peeing in the trees he realizes that he is slowly growing up because of this chills he dresses up to make sure this kid feels loved and realizes he didn't have the right parenting grown up so he learns a lot in new York in parts of new York you never see like tribbcca a great cast as back up like Jon Stewart Leslie man this is one of the sweetest romantic and father kind of son story by Adam Sander nature called look who answered 8/10 2hrs of pure fun