Adam Sandler Movies With The Worst Rotten Tomatoes Scores, Ranked By Real Sandler Fans (2024)

Bulletproof

Critics Score: 8%

Audience Score: 44%

What It's About: Bulletproof is about two friends on opposite sides of the law.Archie Moses (Sandler) discovers his best friend, Rock Keats (aka Jack Carter, played by Damon Wayans), is a cop who only befriended him to infiltrate his boss's gang. This naturally causes a rift in their friendship, but they get plenty of time to iron out their differences as it falls on Carter to escort Moses across the country for a court appearance. In short, the film is a buddy road narrative with action movie flares.

Why Fans Defend It: While several audience reviews admit the plot is a bit formulaic, the overall consensus is Sandler and Wayans's chemistry is unmissable. Their banter and one liners throughout the picture is a real highlight, and it's clear the two leads are having fun with the material.

Grown Ups 2

Critics Score: 8%

Audience Score: 53%

What It's About: Taking place three years after its predecessor, Sandler's Lenny and his family move back to his hometown, where his old buddies (played by Kevin James, David Spade, and Chris Rock) all live. The gang soon get into all kinds of trouble, including warring with a local fraternity.

Why Fans Defend It: While critics lamented an excess of fart jokes, audiences embraced Sandler and crew's juvenile humor. More than this, though, viewers appreciate the emotional heart at the core of the movie and the interaction among the old friends. It's a joy to see Sandler, James, Spade, and Rock reunited for another round of silly antics.

Grown Ups

Critics Score: 10%

Audience Score: 62%

What It's About: Grown Ups follows childhood friends Lenny Feder, Eric Lamonsoff, Kurt McKenzie, Marcus Higgins, and Rob Hilliard, who clearly haven't grown up despite being adults and having their own families (except for Marcus, who's single and a bit of a player). They get up to some wild hijinks when they reunite after their old basketball coach, Robert "Buzzer" Ferdinando, dies, including a madcap trip to the local water park.

Why Fans Defend It: Seeing numerous former Saturday Night Live cast members get back together provides a nice, nostalgic walk down memory lane. Additionally, viewers appreciate the loose structure of the plot, which focuses on the cast's interactions and comedic sparring over a rigid narrative.

Mr Deeds

Critics Score: 22%

Audience Score: 59%

What It's About: Longfellow Deeds is a likable guy living in New Hampshire when his life is flipped upside down. A long-lost relative has left him an inheritance of $40 billion, along with the largest media company in the world. A New York City tabloid reporter, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), disguises herself as a nurse to get close to Deeds, but as she gets to know him, she finds she's actually falling for him, and he for her.

Why Fans Defend It: This is Sandler's take on Mr. Deeds Goes To Town, a classic rags-to-riches rom-com, and no it's less endearing than its predecessor. Sandler and Ryder play off of each other well, and their love story is charming.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Critics Score: 14%

Audience Score: 69%

What It's About: I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry follows Chuck Levine (Sandler) and Larry Valentine (Kevin James), two veteran New York City firefighters. The pair pretend to be a gay couple in order to ensure that Larry's children can become the primary beneficiaries of his life insurance policy. But their scheme goes sideways when insurance investigators arrive to scrutinize the pair, leading to a snowball effect in which their lie grows comically bigger.

Why Fans Defend It: Viewers not only love the buddy comedy energy from Sandler and James, they appreciate the extended cast as well (including Ving Rhames and Dan Aykroyd). Furthermore, while some of the jokes might feel a little dated now, the overall anti-hom*ophobia message of the film resonates even today.

The Ridiculous 6

Critics Score: 0%

Audience Score: 36%

What It's About: The Ridiculous 6 is a Western comedy that follows six men of different backgrounds and ethnicities, who discover they are all half-brothers. Sandler's Tommy, whowas raised by Native Americans, leads his brothers on a journey to reunite with their biological father, who has been kidnapped by bandits.A send up of Western cliches and a multitude of cameos follows.

Why Fans Defend It: While The Ridiculous 6 isn't exactly politically correct, the band of brothers, ridiculous yet complex in their own way, are all charming and endearing. The shenanigans that they get up to during their journey might seem like mindless comedy, but that mindlessness is exactly what audiences admire about the movie. It's just a goofy good time.