So how did critics obtain “Blended” when it first got here out? Not very effectively! The film solely has a 15% score on Rotten Tomatoes with a essential consensus that reads, “Lurching between slapstick and schmaltz with out exhibiting a lot of a dedication to both, ‘Blended’ commits the uncommon Sandler sin of upsetting little greater than boredom.” That consensus is fairly delicate in comparison with what some critics needed to say.
For instance, Richard Brody at The New Yorker wrote, “The romance is good and even effervescent, the comedy is homespun and nostalgic, but it surely’s packaged with such a repellent batch of stereotypes and prejudices that it is unpalatable even to ponder.” Over on the Los Angeles Occasions, Amy Nicholson felt as if the movie caught to some off-putting stereotypes about women and men: “On the planet of this sitcom love story, males are from Mars and ladies needs to be from a defiled menstrual tent far sufficient away that Adam Sandler will not have to listen to them discuss tampons.” David Edelstein at Vulture additionally did not suppose a lot of the film, writing, “Sandler would piss out of the display screen if he thought he might get fun. This isn’t his worst movie, but it surely’s his most offensive.”
On the New York Occasions, A.O. Scott went after the filmmaking itself, writing, “Most of ‘Blended’ has the look and pacing of a three-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their much less vivid classmates. Christy LeMire at RogerEbert.com even tried to discover a optimistic slant, type of: “A good film would possibly really be buried right here someplace deep, deep down. The world won’t ever know.”
“Blended” is on the market to stream on Netflix now.