Adam Sandler doesn’t get the respect he deserves

nypost.com:

insists the shiner he debuted on “Good Morning America” Monday wasn’t the result of a fist fight. But I still gotta wonder: Did A.O.

Scott finally slug the poor guy in the face?After all, for years the funnyman has been movie critics’ favorite punching bag.It’s harder to spot plump red fruits on his RottenTomatoes page than at an outdoor farmers market in January.

Even the actor’s early career titles that regular audiences loved — “Billy Madison,” “Big Daddy” and “The Waterboy” — were called “moronic,” “disposable” and “witless” by my black turtleneck-wearing colleagues.Now, as his new film “Hustle” — a feel-good, traditional sports comedy in which Sandler plays a talent scout — drops Wednesday on Netflix, some 32 years after he came to prominence on “Saturday Night Live,” a question nags: Why do the cultural elite hate Adam Sandler so much?Perhaps, as “The Waterboy”’s Bobby Boucher once said, “You people drinkin’ the wrong water.”More so than just about any other comic talent — including Jim Carrey, to whom he has long been disparagingly compared — Sandler actually embodies a buzzword that critics prize: danger.

Remember the scene from the fantastic 1998 comedy “The Wedding Singer,” which has held up incredibly well, in which the title character Robbie croons a song he wrote for his cruel fiancée who left him at the altar?