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Adam Sandler Needs to Lock It Up

CAREER INTERVENTION

The likeable star’s latest Netflix film, ‘The Do-Over,’ is god-awful. Can Sandler’s career be saved? And does it really need saving?

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The Do-Over, Adam Sandler’s latest film for Netflix, opens on a truly galling image: David Spade. He is Charlie, and if his Dwight Schrute look didn’t already scream “cries-when-he-cums-pathetic,” well, his wife is mid-cuckolding, dirty-dancing all over her ex-husband, Ted-O (Sean Astin, unrecognizable), at their 25-year high school reunion.

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