Who-da-thunk it? Adam Sandler, a big time actor, playing a small town guy who falls in love with a woman who is working undercover as his girlfriend, after he inherits billions of dollars. Which movie is this I am talking about, you may ask? It’s “Mr. Deeds.”
Longfellow Deeds, played by Adam Sandler, works as a pizza delivery guy in a small town and a part-time card poet. He learns that he is a distant relative of billionaire, Preston Blake. To fully inherit the 40 billion dollars, he moves to New York City, where Blake’s former associates and workers show him around the city and try to figure out how to get their hands on Deeds’ fortune. The news media soon hears of Deeds and Mac McGrath (producer of the show) wants the inside scoop. He sends Babe Bennett, played by Winona Ryder, undercover with the alias, Pam Dawson, to try to sweep Deeds off his feet. He quickly falls in love with her, even writing his own poem in a card for her. The night Deeds plans on proposing to her, Mac McGrath announces on the show that “Pam Dawson, Deed’s alleged girlfriend, is actually Babe Bennett, a producer here.” Longfellow Deeds then goes home, leaving his fortune and Bennett alone.
Bennett soon realizes that she did fall for him, and goes to his hometown to confess and try to explain everything. She ends up falling into a frozen lake where she almost drowns, only to be saved by Deeds himself. They then find out that Blake’s former associates plan to shut down Blake Industries for good, taking the large fortune with them. Bennett shows up with Preston Blake’s diary where he states that he and his maid had an affair, and later a son was born. Turns out the son was actually Emilio Lopez, Blake’s butler.
The ending to this movie was what was really interesting. It ended with Emilio giving Deeds 1 billion dollars, where Deeds spends it all on fire-engine red Chevrolet Corvettes for his entire hometown. One guy, who cannot see well, and is somewhat homeless, drives it right into a tree. Then the credits start to roll. What kind of ending is that?! I mean, yes, it was a comedy movie, but that wasn’t funny. For a better summary, I suggest going to IDMB, they probably have more details than I do because I don’t pay attention to detail so much as I do to mistakes and dumb acting in movies. Here is the link to their page on Mr. Deeds: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280590/
I continued reading this blog, only to find that Heinrich and I were very different. He says, “Those kinds of movies,” referring to romantic comedies, “ always use the same patterns which are in fact that much alike that even a nerdy Star Wars geek wearing glasses of epic proportions would have problems to spot the differences. On the one side we have the big city filled with moronic yuppies. They are smart, good looking and therefore astonishing assholes while wearing the well known “I’m with stupid”-t-shirt pointing to its wearer.” In my opinion, I think that anyone could understand even the sheerest stupidity, especially in this movie. To read more of Gunther Heinrich’s blog, here is the link: http://www.madmind.de/2010/02/28/an-endureview-mr-deeds/
In conclusion, I think that Mr. Deeds was an overall OK movie. I wouldn’t recommend it to people to watch unless they were an Adam Sandler freak, of course. I can honestly say I do not have a favorite part, because it wasn’t completely interesting to me. This is because I’m more of a horror/thriller kind of person, not comedy or romantic comedy. Watch it if you want to, or not that’s cool too. Just a reminder to come back next week for another Cina-Blog!
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