The Fourth Adam Sandler Podcast

The Sandlernistas pontificate about Pixels, starring Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Kevin James, and of course, Adam Sandler. But is this Chris Columbus directed special effects romp an arcade king, or waste of your three lives? (Hint: We save our long eps for the classics, friends.)

Discussion covers Tim and Martin Hirlehy, new and familiar faces, Jimmy Carter's brother, nerds, Adam Sandler's attractiveness, the directorial touches of Chris Columbus, conspiracy theories, and more!

Those got-dang Sandler boys dig their chops into "The Cobbler" a film by "Spotlight" director Tom McCarthy featuring Adam Sandler as a shoe cobbler with a very special, um, cobbling machine. 

Discussion includes turning invisible and ethics (and Plato), cameos, racist depictions and problematic plot points, making good and bad art, and just what exactly are you supposed to use this power for anyway?

This was the last episode we recorded in 2020, our most productive year ever!

In this very special episode of the Fourth Adam Sandler Podcast, our boys review a movie that is only nominally Adam Sandler related, the 2014 Jason Reitman directed comedy-drama, "Men, Women, & Children," a movie that explores the ever tumultuous relationship between human connection and technology in a series of overlapping narratives. But is this a poignant look at how people strive to connect, or a somewhat heavy-handed morality tale about the perils of internet addiction?

Discussion includes the liminal state of being a teenager, death anxiety, the Pina Colada Song, being the "edgy" kid in high school, and the timely question: is technology here to destroy us?

Also Joe Biden is gonna be President now. We talk about it.

The Sandler stans are back with a look at "Blended", the third pairing with Drew Barrymore, and another new location, this one an African resort! We talk about what exactly "blending" refers to, Shaq cameos, the dead wife trope, the experience of being a tourist, the early 90s Tom Hanks film "Joe vs the Volcano", and a whole lot more!

The Sandler schmucks do Grown Ups 2, the first sequel in the Adam Sandler filmography. 

Featuring Grown Ups 2 as literary fiction, the mysterious “Death of a Radical” People magazine cover in the classroom scene, the opening scene of City Slickers, managing expectations for art and embracing authorial intent. 

E-mail at 1:17:20!

Links mentioned in the show:

Podcast where they watch Grown Ups 2 every week for a year:

https://www.worstideaofalltime.com/

The Psychotic Legend of Uncle Donnie (inspiration for That’s My Boy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ly1dyo4kuQ

Your favorite Sandler sleuths book a room at the Hotel Transylvania, a spooky hotel hosting many of the usual suspects, and directed by animation wiz-kid Genndy Tartakovsky. This is Adam Sandler's first animated film since Eight Crazy Nights, but is this a new animated classic or does it just kinda bite (I'll see myself out).

Featuring: Covid-19 updates, a fairly long discussion of Samurai Jack, getting dropped into stories in the middle, cameos (of course), Miley Cyrus, colonized people, women in refrigerators, parody films, vampire “rules” and much more!

Link to the video Chris was watching just before recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZAcRJafmD4

The raunch of Sandler’s early comedy finally makes its proper big screen debut in this team-up with fellow SNL alum Andy Samberg. Sandler stars as Donnie Berger, a washed up Z-list celebrity famous for knocking up his teacher in middle school in a hilarious and/or quite problematic depiction of child abuse, who, through various plot happenings, must reconnect with his long lost son just before the estranged offspring’s wedding. Beers, bodily functions, cameos, you name it, it’s all here. Looks like raunch is back on the menu boys!

Note, this episode was recorded before the recent Black Lives Matter protests of the past month or so, but obviously we support it 100 percent. Black Lives Matter, always.

Uh oh! In this romp, it’s double the Sandler trouble as he plays a set of twins - a brother and sister! Our own duo of Sandler dilettantes discuss one of the most notoriously bad Sandler films of all time. A winner of 10 Golden Raspberry Awards and panned by critics, but does it deserve the drubbing? Or is there a little bit of “twin magic” to be had here? Also featuring a stellar performance from Al Pacino (the movie, not our podcast.)

Our intrepid Sandler sleuths investigate Just Go With It, the first Adam Sandler match-up with Jennifer Aniston, and an adaptation of a (presumably) classic French farce called Fleur de cactus (and 1969 American film, Cactus Flower). Adam Sandler routinely uses the deception that he is married to sleep around, but what happens when a woman (who just might be the one) calls his bluff? An escalating series of lies culminating in a trip to (where else but) Hawaii, and some classic Happy Madison high jinx. Is this a hidden gem of the Adam Sandler filmography, or did Chris just drink too much wine when he watched it on Easter Sunday?

In this Special Quarantine Episode, the Sandler Sports discuss the merits of one of the most famous movies of Adam Sandler’s “second act:” Grown Ups. Often criticized by online movie critics even more famous than we are, but is there more than meets the eye with this star-studded celebration of adulthood?