The Worst Movies of 2016 So Far

7.  The Do-Over

And people thought The Ridiculous Six, Adam Sandler’s first Netflix movie, was bad. Okay, don’t get me wrong, it was bad. But it’s not nearly as terrible as The Do-Over, the second film under the SNL vet’s four-picture deal that’s somehow even more offensive, tone-deaf and exasperating than his last. Mean-spirited, regularly disgusting, immature-to-a-fault, inherently misogynistic and littered with Sandler’s love for blatant product placement, the newest Happy Madison production picks up all the worst Sandler traits, which haven’t been this bad since 2012’s That’s My Boy, and then accelerates them well beyond their breaking point. It holds nothing sacred, it doesn’t have any respect for anything whatsoever and it simply feels old, tired and outdated in its relevance. It also takes David Spade down with it, for better or for worse, along with Paula Patton, Luis Guzman, Natasha Leggero and poor Kathryn Hahn in the process. It actually feels twice as long as The Ridiculous Six, and it’s nearly 15-minutes shorter.

Welcome to the new era of Adam Sandler, available wherever Netflix is accessible. At a time when the comedian’s formula appears more shameless than ever, it takes an effort to make a film this fitfully ignorant and shallow. The Do-Over, however, is such a film, if it can even be called a film. It would be too easy to a make a “do-over” joke here, and I don’t want Adam Sandler to do it all over again; I just want him to connect back to his roots. He’s a genuinely talented actor, and he’s proven himself multiple times when given the chance to push himself outside his wheelhouse. But if anything, this deal proves that things only get worse when he’s given more creative freedom. He doesn’t need a restart; he needs a renovation.