FRIDAY FILM BEAT: Blended

This is clearly Adam Sandler's best work. He and Drew Barrymore really pulled it together. Critical reception hasn't been good, though - on Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 14% rating based on 120 critics, with the consensus: "Lurching between slapstick and schmaltz without showing much of a commitment to either, Blended commits the rare Sandler sin of provoking little more than boredom", and on Metacritic, the film has a score of 31 out of 100, based on 32 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Go see it and form your own opinion about it.