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Sandler's back as The Wedding Singer

It seems like every decade is Pointe Blank and Romy and Michelle's Wall Street broker romanticized two decades later. The High School Reunion soundtracks, all named Glenn. Album '70s had Happy Days and American those Puff Daddy remixes of Police Can Hart win Music from the Graffiti, the '80s had The Wonder Years, songs and the Violent Femmes show at Julia from the motion picture and so far, the current decade has seen McAlister last fail) and The Wedding clutches of the Dazed and Confused, both Brady Bunch Singer is a perfect vehicle for Sandler to evil Glenn? Now, The Wedding movies, Boogie Nights, the Ice Storm and sing all the '80s favorites you won't if I told you that, Singer other homages to the 1970s. It seems, admit you know so well. you'd be mad at Hits from '80s then, that is jumping the As the film opens, Hart is belting out me. acts, some gun a little with his new film, The "You Spin Around (like a record)" and Half the fun of lesser songs you might Wedding Singer. Set in 1985, Sandler the songs just keep coming, including the Wedding remember I plays Robbie Hart, a frustrated "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" done Singer is all the and a great spandex-clad rock star who has turned by a wanna-be (Alexis '80s in-jokes. cover of a • to weddings as a quick way to make Arquette), singing Watch for Rubik's Buggles' some cash. The premise would work 's "True" and a very old Cubes, Van Halen song. What 1 just as well in the present day; so why lady rapping along to "Rapper's T-shirts and else do you .. wantfrom a put the film in the '80s? Answer: '80s Delight." DeLoreans, and music is hot right now (see the Grosse Luckily for the viewer, The Wedding hilarious cameos soundtrack? Singer doesn't degenerate into an by Sandler's hour-and-a-half music video, and that Saturday Night + is thanks mostly to writer Tim Live buddies Herlihy's strong script. Hart is an orphan whose own lack of parents has and made him obsessed with getting and '80s rock-god married. But when his fiance Linda Billy Idol. leaves him standing at the altar, he Sweeter than becomes bitter (listening to a lot of Sandler's earlier hits and Cure) and abandons weddings Happy Gilmore, but just as funny, The altogether, which results in a great Bar Wedding Singer is the date movie you'll Mitzvah scene. Eventually, it takes both laugh at. Julia (), a waitress at the reception hall Hart sings at, to -- Andrew Kirkpatrick, make him discover what love is. Arcade editor Unfortunately, Julia is getting married to a Don Johnson-worshipping

Wedding Singer soundtrack jam-packed with hits As you'd expect from an '80s movie, the Wedding (video) ever shown on MTV, the Buggies' "Video Killed Starring Singer soundtrack is jam-packed with '80s hits, with a the Radio Star." Adam Sandler, couple of remakes and one new song thrown in for good Having seen the movie, the soundtrack is notable not measure. Of course, Billy Idol's "White Wedding" is for what's on it, but for what's not. I would have Drew included, as is "Do you Really Want to Hurt Me," the especially liked to have heard Steve Buscemi' s great Barrymore tune. There are also hits from , the rendition of The date Smiths, the Psychedelic Furs and the , Spandau Ballet's movie you'll lesser songs that the over-30 crowd might remember from "True," the other both laugh at. , · , New Order and Musical Sandler original Youth and the old-school classic "Rapper's Delight," with in the movie, the first verse sung by 70-something actress Ellen Dow. "Grow old with The Adam Sandler original on the album, "Somebody Kill you" or Nena's Me," will either make you hate him or run out and buy his "99 Luftballons." three albums. The first track, which is also the first single Then again, even and video, happens to be the last song ever recorded by soundtracks can the now-defunct Presidents of the United States of have sequels ... America, a great garage-rock cover of the first song

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