Blended

It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.

• “It could have been a bit smarter and a lot shorter, but Blended, the third big-screen pairing for Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore (after "The Wedding Singer" and "50 First Dates"), is a fun, often funny, largely enjoyable romp.”

  Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times · 70

• “Blended isn’t Sandler’s funniest movie or his best, but it is a big step up from the dregs he’s been churning out, a messy, shaggy dog of a comedy that you can’t help but like even as it sheds all over your house.”

  Connie Ogle, Miami Herald · 63

• “The chemistry may be good, the movie isn’t.”

  Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor · 58

• “Thanks to Sandler, Barrymore, and South Africa’s natural beauty, Blended is far more palatable and bearable than it has any right to be; it’s fluff that rises to the level of innocuous disposability.”

  Nathan Rabin, The Dissolve · 50

• “Blended director Frank Coraci, a Happy Madison vet, is too much of a company man to elevate this passion-phobic rom-com beyond something more than an above-average Sandler production.”

  Inkoo Kang, TheWrap · 50