Sweet blend with Sandler's signature bad taste

AN Adam Sandler family comedy for the school holidays? Who would have thought Hollywood's notorious man-child would decide it's time to act his age with recent efforts such as the Grown Ups duology and That's My Boy all finding him maturing every so slightly and displaying a more sensitive adult side.

Blended, a new rom-com which pairs the 47-year-old comedian with Drew Barrymore for the third time after The Wedding Singer (1998) and 50 First Dates (2004), could well be Sandler's family-friendliest live-action film (bar his animated hit Hotel Transylvania) to date. It also reunites them with Singer's director Frank Coraci.

Predictable but sweet on the whole, Blended's main draw is the easy chemistry between the two leads and neither disappoints, drawing laughs effortlessly with their natural comic talents.