The Fourth Adam Sandler Podcast

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, g...

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...

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...

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 escalati...

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?

Our two Sandler scoundrels take a look at Funny People , the Judd Apatow directed tour de force featuring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, and a whole bunch of other people. A long film that looks at friendship, heartbreak, mortality, stand up comedy, dick and fart jokes, and, perhaps, the strange need for connection that drives one to become one of the so-called “funny people.”  Featuring a special...

The two Sandler Stooges discuss Adam Sandler’s first expressly family friendly movie, a collaboration between Happy Madison and Disney. We only get all SJW-y for a little bit at the end Thank God! I (Chris) also have to issue a correction: Rob Schneider is, indeed, one of the “grown-ups.” Congratulations Rob!

The intrepid students of Sandler discuss “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” a delightfully whimsical movie about an Israeli counter-terrorist who becomes a hairdresser, a story that is completely apolitical and cannot be connected to any sort of extremely volatile or controversial real world issue.  Skip to 1:30:30 to hear our first ever listener e-mails!

Kevin James marries Adam Sandler! Rob Schneider plays a Japanese man! Allen Covert is in this movie! And we piece together a few more pieces of the larger puzzle that is the “Sandler-Multiverse.” It’s all part of the wacky world of “I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry."

Just like a 90s cereal munching dinosaur , we’re back!, this time coming at you with a discussion of 9/11 inspired dramady Reign Over Me . Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle play two former buds who begin rekindling an old friendship. But while Alan (Don Cheadle) seems to be using it as an excuse to recapture some of the whimsy of his semi-recent youth, Charlie (Adam Sandler) is dealing with a deeper tr...

The Soggy Sandler Boys watch another Adam Sandler film. This one’s about a guy who gets a remote that’s really out of this world! That kind of makes it sound like it’s from space. It’s not from space. I don’t think it is anyway.

Your rambling boys of Sandler touch tackle another football feature, this time with the lighthearted and not at all depressing twist that it all takes place in a brutal Texas penitentiary. Featuring all your favorites: flubs, long-winded digressions about masculinity, probably a football pun or two.

Your favorite Sandlernista’s mispronounce words, impersonate animals, and chat class politics, all while trying to get to the bottom of this not-quite romantic dramady. Is this as good as it gets, or just another case of lost in translation?

Our pre-eminent Sandler scholars “remember” this mid-2000s romantic comedy ode to memory loss. Featuring 50 First Dates as a Horror Movie, the art of storytelling according to the screenwriter, and a soundtrack of reggae covers produced by 311. Our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Cameron Boyce, who passed away July 6th, 2019.

Adam Sandler teams up with Jack Nicholson in this 2003 take on group therapy and rage.. Is this the funniest Adam Sandler film since The Waterboy, or like, only sort of funny? Well, it's a movie anyway.

Happy Madison takes on the holidays in this animated film. The agreed upon nadir of Sandler's filmography so far, but is there more to it than meets the eye?

A remake of a classic Frank Capra film, in which one Longfellow Deeds inherits a fortune from a long-lost uncle. Once again Adam Sandler fails to interrogate the dialectical materialist implications of his movies.

A beautiful movie with a regrettable lack of public urination. Chris gets Emily Watson's name wrong for the first part of the episode.

What we talk about when we talk about Little Nicky.

Another week, another exciting episode. Sonny Koufax is a layabout who wants nothing to do with society’s rules… until a little surprise shows up at his doorstep! How’s a total “dud” going to transition to being the ultimate “dad?”

Adam and the boys "tackle" football and the Louisiana Bayou. Kathy Bates is the Greatest of All Time (G.O.A.T.).

The fifth episode of the Fourth Adam Sandler Podcast, in which the fellows discuss the much loved RomCom classic “The Wedding Singer.” Is it really that romantic though, or are we all just lost in a haze of lovesick 80s MTV classics, riding that nostalgia wave into a dayglo sunset…. Also discussed: what is nostalgia, and where may I get some?

A different kind of movie altogether. Does Bulletproof belong in the pantheon of classic buddy cop action films? Or chucked into the overpass like all of Mel Gibson’s empty Foster’s cans?

A deep dive into the character study “Happy Gilmore,” about a man who expresses the ever-present struggle between man and society by swearing at golf balls. Discussion includes Star Wars comparisions, talk of the increasing consistency of the Sandler universe, the proto-typical Sandler hero’s contradictory relationship to the film’s subaltern and fond reminesces of a pornographic nu metal disc one...

Perhaps the true start of the “Adam Sandler Cinematic Universe.” Widely regarded as a comedy classic by people on your school bus, does it hold up? Is Billy Madison a well-observed distillation of Sandler’s already popular stand-up and SNL stint, or a grotesque Frankenstein’s monster of different parts, later to be disassembled as raw material for the rest of Adam Sandler’s roles? Is it actually a...