These days, an "Adam Sandler movie" is synonymous to many film lovers with laziness. It tends to evoke sloppy crapfests full of awful animal gags, gay panic jokes, and an excuse for Sandler and his friends to take a vacation while filming*. Save for the incredibly long (and often tedious) Funny People, he really hasn't stretched his limits too far in a while. Which makes Punch Drunk Love kind of an anomaly, a blip in his career that makes me wish he'd expand his horizons more often. Or at least work with better directors.
