Sadly Over-hyped

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is a hilarious sex comedy film that starts in 1984, when the protagonist (played by Adam Sandler) impregnates his teacher. She's sent to prison and he becomes famous. He loses his fame and fortune, and finds his son (played by Andy Samberg), whom he has not seen for years.

I wish I'd read the IMDb reviews before renting this movie. Instead, I saw the pictures of a family movie , probably feelgood, where a bad childhood era child-parent relationship gets fixed decades later and everybody lives happily ever after. Probably schmaltzy and predictable but "nice".When the classroom scene turns out to be real rather than a dream that the teenager wakes up from, the movie goes downhill as in over the side of a deep deep dark well.There is clever wellthoughtout intelligent humour and there is mindless, bottom of the barrel 'humour' which relies on foul language and all the other low grade traits mentioned in the other reviews.My fault for not establishing that it had a sub_R rating.I cringed until fortunately, the clever TV decided that the video quality was so poor that it went into standby mode and then I cut the movie halfway and replaced it with "Promised Land", a thousand times better quality show.Would I touch another Adam Sandler movie? Not a chance! Looks like even Adam Sandler and his backers misread the number of viewers who would make them money on this zero-level performance. (The 1 out of 10 is for the opening 4 minutes when there was still hope)

Well, first off I wanna say that I kind of like Adam Sandler. That is if he acts in a normal way, not the retarded way. When he plays against Drew Barrymore, he's at his best in my opinion. In this movie, he's just annoying. I don't care about the "over the top" situations - nude strippers and titties, teacher f**king student, sister f**king brother, violent priest etc. All of these tings could have been a lot of fun done right. But no. For the first time in a long time, I actually did laugh just once through a whole movie. That's just sad!I gave it 3 stars because of this: 1. The 80's music is really good 2. There's nudity in it (yes I know, I'm hopeless) 3. Vanilla Ice, James Caan and Susan Sarandon

I'm not the biggest Sandler fan, but he has hit the nail on the head with his 80's movies. Wedding Singer was great coming from the new wave side of things. And Thats my boy is even better with the more hard rock soundtrack and much raunchier than the Wedding Singer. Found myself laughing out loud for about the entire movie. Yes, its based on some perverted stuff, but heck, Back in 84 what do you think Hot for teacher was about? Comedy has gotten much raunchier than the classic funny movie of my youth like Animal House and Caddyshack. Soundtrack is great. Having gone to High School in the mid 80's I can relate to all the classic songs from the soundtrack. I don't recall this even being in the theater and its never on cable. Just happen to catch it one night. And you have to see it on real cable. Could only imagine a Tnt version of this movie. If you like raunchy comedies like Revenge of the Nerds and Fast Times, you should really get into this movie also..