Wednesday 19.04.17 Stiff upper lip Why the royal health warning matters Adam Sandler Mr Manchester Fly fashion Broadchurch Movies to watch Howard Bernstein Aviator glasses Saving TV drama 12A Shortcuts Film Punch Drunk Love Paul Thomas have the energy to type out the Anderson turns Sandler’s plot of. Adam Sandler’s habit of SHOUTING REALLY LOUDLY into a virtue in this Blended The fi nal fi lm in fi lms, sorted by arthouse gem. the Dradam Sarrymore trip- watchability tych is an entirely forgettable 50 First Dates Sandler/Barrymore romcom that’s still better than (Bandler? Sarrymore?) reunite for this next lot. a high-concept amnesia comedy. he news that Netfl ix Broad but likeable. The bad but tolerable The unwatchables T users have spent more Billy Madison Sandler’s fi rst star- Mr Deeds Sandler remakes Frank than half a billion Funny People Acerbic Judd ring role is a Dumb and Dumber Capra. God help us all. hours “enjoying” the fi lms of Apatow ensemble dramedy knock-off that lacks that fi lm’s Adam Sandler since December about standups. Sandler gives fi nely honed sense of nuance. Grown Ups Far too many people 2015 may come as a surprise to perhaps his best performance, went to see this terrible manchild those who have spent just as as a comic diagnosed with incur- Big Daddy A manchild is forced to comedy, which meant we were much time studiously avoiding able leukemia. look after his estranged biological also saddled with Grown Ups 2. them. Still, the former SNL son. Cute kids, life lessons, man must be doing something The surprisingly solid yadda yadda. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and right, given that the streaming The Waterboy A deep-south Larry Two macho fi refi ghters service recently signed a deal to simpleton becomes a star Little Nicky (above) Adam Sandler (Sandler and Kevin James) pretend produce four more of his fi lms, American football player. Fitfully is the actual son of Satan! to be in a relationship to get to add to the more-than-50 he funny, if possibly a bit ableist. pension rights. Somehow more has already appeared in. So, Click Sandler fi nds a magical objectionable than it sounds. where should a Sandler novice Anger Management Jack remote control that allows him to start with this hefty catalogue Nicholson plays Sandler’s thera- fast-forward time. I’m not making Pixels (top left) Migraine- of gross-out comedies and more pist and the two shout at each these up, I promise. inducing blockbuster about video gross-out comedies? Here’s other a lot. Hardly Terms of game characters running amok a condensed guide to which of his Endearment, but watchable . The Do-Over One of Sandler’s in Manhattan. Can Ad-San stop fi lms to watch and which to run Netfl ix fi lms , which I don’t even them? Yes. Yes he can. a mile from. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan Sandler plays an I sraeli soldier Just Go With It Poor, poor The stone cold classics who becomes a hairdresser. Jennifer Aniston is shoehorned Happy Gilmore (right) Sandler Weirdly compelling. into the Drew role in this limp and Carl Weathers run around romantic comedy. snooty golf clubs threatening Sandy Wexler Sandler’s people with a fi ve iron. Better latest fi lm is deeply The Ridiculous 6 Almost impos- than it sounds. strange homage sibly broad comedy western to his agent. that was picketed by Native The Wedding Singer The fi rst Worth watching Americans for cultural pairing of Sandler and Drew for the celeb insensitivity. It’s arguably Barrymore, the Bogart and Bacall cameos (Conan Sandler’s worst fi lm to date of gross-out rom-coms. Hugely O’Brien, Quincy ... well, until whatever charming with a smashing Jones and, er, comes next. 80s soundtrack. Vanilla Ice). Gwilym Mumford US news limply by his side. It immediately Rio Olympics. No, the true test of However, straight-armed Trump springs up towards the First patriotism was the position of her had been Photoshopped in from Hand on heart, Ticker as the anthem reaches its hand during the medal ceremony. a diff erent image . second line. Disaster averted. It did not reach her heart, and the Of course, Barack Obama’s this gesture Honouring the fl ag during the backlash traumatised the athlete . hands were frequently scruti- pledge of allegiance or anthem This gesture is so important nised. As a senator, he failed to matters in the US used to require more eff ort. The that some have sought to unleash raise his hand during the anthem Bellamy salute, introduced in the fake news of misdemeanours. at an Iowa steak fry (egg rolls, 1890s to unite the US after the After a Republican presidential steak fries – yep, US politics is erhaps it was tired from all civil war, involved raising a hand debate in 2015, a photo circu- weird). As president, he drew P those weird gestures – or skywards, arm straight, palm lated , showing Trump not raising heat for saluting a marine while the golf – but it appeared down . Sounds a bit Nazi, doesn’t his hand to his heart during the clutching a coff ee cup as he for a moment as if Donald Trump’s it? Which is why the 1942 US Flag anthem while his rivals did . stepped off his helicopter. hand had failed to go in the same Code required that civilian Amer- Trump has required prompting direction as those belonging to his icans place a hand on the heart before. At his own inaugura- son and the 7ft rabbit next to him instead. Doing so stopped being tion concert, a band asked the – namely towards his heart. optional some time later. crowd to “stand up if you love Footage of the national anthem So, it wasn’t enough that America”. Trump remained at the White House Easter egg Gabby Douglas had sacrifi ced seated until he felt a now- familiar roll on Monday (right) suggests everything to win for her country spousal nudge . Behind every Melania comes to the rescue. She as part of the US women’s great man and all that. nudges Trump’s arm, which hangs gymnastics team at last year’s Simon Usborne 2 The Guardian 19.04.17 What the world loves with Weetabix ... peanut butter, jam and Vegemite Pass notesn NoNo 3,8423 Wealth mountains ROBBIE RETURNS Breakfast accounts for 70 % of sales. The Age: Quite new. company has joint ventures in Appearance: Wealthy. Mountainous. Why did China South Africa and Kenya , and Is this a Brexit thing? Are these wealth moun- a manufacturing plant in Ontario tains that we’re saving or losing? And, while not fall for a to supply the North American we’re at it, what’s happening with the butter bland biscuit? market. Although some US mountains? Are they still a thing? It’s not a Brexit consumers, reared on the obvious thing. It refers to the £400bn in grandparental charms of Froot Loops and Cap’n wealth (mostly in the form of property) that is set Crunch, express puzzlement Huge news from to be inherited by the next generation. Albert Square: Dean owever much aff ection at this “entirely unappealing” Gaffney is coming And the butter? Is back, a bit, but need not H you feel for Weetabix, mush , others laud the biscuits back for a regular role concern us here. a product that, for me, as a vehicle for maple syrup or in EastEnders. His OK. So, £400bn. That sounds – yeah, fairly will for ever be associated with peanut butter and jelly, while in beloved character, the mountainous. How come it is so large? Roughly goofy road sweeper the rough scrape of the maternal Australia (where Weetabix was Robbie Jackson, is 1 million people in the UK will leave estates handkerchief, it’s not hard to invented nearly a century ago), indelibly imprinted on each worth on average between £400,000 and understand why it has failed they’re given a local fl avour with the national psyche, £500,000. Multiply t’one by t’other and hey to win over those with no such the addition of Vegemite . despite exiting the show poncho – kabillions stack up quickly. full-time in 2003. It’s fond childhood memories. The No wonder the UK – which still unclear at the time of Wow. So we should all be nice to grandma and cereal’s Chinese owner, Bright appreciates the attractions of a writing whether he will gran dad. Well, only if you’re the off spring of one Foods – which bought the brand gloriously bland, comfortingly have a dog sidekick of the lucky million. If you’re not, obviously you in tow. in 2012 believing that the world’s soggy serving of mush – remains can continue to treat them however you like. most populous country was on its biggest market. A nation I use mine as cheap childcare and draught the brink of a Damascene conver- requires a certain sort of mild- excluders. You might want to play nice if you’re sion in the breakfast department mannered temperament to start a grandchild of one of them, too – about half – has sold it to US giant Post the day on a dish so inoff ensive intend to will their wealth directly to their chil- Holdings after failing to win over in both texture and fl avour that dren’s children. consumers. Frankly, it’s little it’s classic weaning fodder, and, Millennials! I knew they’d show up sooner or wonder – if I could walk out of my frankly, not everyone has it.