At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Like I say in the title of this review, another great Sandler movie. Adam Sandler plays a very likable character in the movie Big Daddy, and this is an overall great movie. I just don't think it lives up to Happy Gilmore or anything like that. Happy is a much more likable character in my opinion, but I still liked Sonny, who Adam plays. My only critique is the ending. I would've ended it where the boy ends up with Sonny, and not with his actual father, but...I mean, I don't know. I just found Sonny's character so much more of a character you'd want the kid to end up with, and not as much the father and Corrine.Still a pretty good ending though, and an overall good movie to sit down and watch. Maybe just not hot buttered popcorn worthy. 7\10 for this funny and enjoyable Sandler comedy.

"Hooters" is a word heard about 15 times from Adm Sandler in this movie every time he sees his roommate's girlfriend, Leslie Mann, who once worked at Hooters, and now Adam just can't let that go. Adam's roommate has another surprise for him. The day he leaves on a business trip to Japan, his son gets dropped off at the door from social services. Actually, it's just the five year old kid that's there by himself from social services. Last time I checked, S.S. is not allowed to send a small child to someone's house unsupervised. But don't ask. This film has a number of implausabilities. Such as, how in the world did Adam get away with lying about who he was to S.S. the first time he went there with the kid and met with social worker Josh Mostel? I would think they would automatically ask you for I.D., especially if you're there about temporary custody of a small child. And how on earth did Adam break into that man's house so fast when he and the kid were trick or treating and the man refused to come to the door? He must've not had his doors locked too good. Not smart thinking when living in NY.Anyway, the movie had some good and funny parts too. I liked the little relationship that started between Adam and Leslie Mann's sister, Joey Lauren Adams. And there were some good bonding scenes between Adam and the kid. Some amusing moments included: Adam finding out his ex was sleeping with a 60 year old man, or as he called him, the Pepperage farm guy. And Adam saying to him: "hey old man river! Zip it or I'll break your hip!" Then Adam making fun of Rob Shnieder for not being able to read, especially with the way he said it when he was disguised as "Scuba Sam", the kid's toy " Scuba Steve's" father. Then there was Adam's talk with the kid's uptight kindergarten teacher, with her saying that his kid was the smelly kid. Then he asks her what he should do about that, and she answers "you should start by paying more attention to his school work". Yeh, OK, that will take care of him not smelling anymore. Then the Steve Bucemmi guy, a bum who says how he ruined his life by going through the " doing mushrooms" phase. And I really enjoyed the "lamb and tunafish" and "spaghetti and meatballs" analogy joke in the courtroom between Steve Bucemmi and Rob Shnieder. (I really liked Steve in the film "Ghost world". That was a really good film). Unfortionately, " Big daddy" also had a lot of vomit and pee jokes which I definitely coulda done without. And I also could've done without that spit thing Adam taught the kid.Finally, the social services finds out that Adam had lied about who he was, and he has to go to court. What really bugged me about the court scene was the judge. She sat there for the longest time remaining quiet while all of the different friends and family of Adam's defend him and say how good he's been to the kid. Then Adam's dad comes up to the stand and argues with him for a while about how he should never get custody of the boy. Then Adam says a couple of convincing, heartwarming things about the kid, and then Adam's dad finally says"your honor, my son deserves this child". Then everybody in the courtroom agrees and cheers. Then suddenly, after all that, that bitch of a judge then suddenly starts going on a rampage about how Adam should not only not have custody of the kid, but he should be in jail. Why would she keep quiet all that time while Adam redeems himself, and everyone else including his uptight dad acknowledges that Adam is fit to have the kid, and then all of a sudden she goes off on such a rampage? That really bugged me. I know that he shouldn't have lied about who he was to S.S., but the judge should've been mentioning that earlier in the court session and all the way through it, not her saying nothing until the very end when it looked like Adam was going to win, and then suddenly going off. Anyway, those are my two cents about this movie.

You know it's amazing how many films in the 90s can be consider classics and many were comedy filmsHowever Big Daddy is not one of those films it is one of the films that I would never watch again given the choiceI mean how many films think they can get away with having gross comedy bits it just not that funnyThis film has gross moments that are so awful that it is not even funny to look atIt goes to show that some movies were better on paper this one is one of those films because Adam clearly wasn't thinking straight when he made this filmThe film has some of the worse acting ever seen in a movie it just feels like that normal Adam film where you can expect nothing lessPlus he reuse the same actors for a good percent of his movies it just goes to show that some movies don't need to be madeI give Big Daddy a 1 out of 10

I really like this movie. I can't believe that it took me so many years to finally watch it. I think I just forgot about it, at some point.This movie is about Sonny Koufax, mostly. He's a 32-year-old law school graduate. He has a nice apartment in Manhattan and his life seems to be pretty good. However, there is one problem. He does nothing. Ever. He sits on his butt and lives off an investment that was the result of a lawsuit he won, one year ago. So, yeah, that's a problem. Even though it sounds like a nice thing to do, but not for that long. When his friend, Kevin, is on a business trip, it is discovered that Kevin has a son that he never knew about. Sonny has to take care of the boy until his father returns. At first things don't go well, but then Sonny ends up loving him. I thought he might've adopted him, but he doesn't. Instead, they stay close and Sonny gets married and has children of his own.Overall, I give this movie a 7 out of 10.