Duty compels me to identify Frank Coraci as the director and Ivan Menchell and Clare Sera as the authors of the script. The politically correct scold in me - though I prefer the phrase “thinking human being” - may object to all those lapses and more like them, but in my capacity as a film critic, I find myself more bothered by the sheer audience-insulting incompetence of the filmmaking and the writing. Because life is short and I have other things to be upset about, I will not dwell on the offensive aspects of “Blended,” the new Adam Sandler comedy: its retrograde gender politics its delight in the humiliation of children its sentimental hypocrisy about male behavior its quasi-zoological depiction of Africans as servile, dancing, drum-playing simpletons its.
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