REIGN OVER ME-2007-3 STARS

This movie really needs to be in the comedy section, ’cause its funny as hell, except things get a little more serious near the end. So here we have Alan (Don Cheadle), a good looking dentist with a boring life, and Charlie (Adam Sandler), hilarious, but an extreme basket case after losing wife and 3 kids in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

I’m telling you, he’s got some serious issues, he has no friends (until Alan), pushes his in-laws away, and tries to pretend his family never existed. ”You know Charlie, you’re a complete weirdo, why don’t you go attend some anger management classes, and get some grief counseling?” However, Charlie does has a couple of things going for him. First of all, he has a strange sense of humor, and second, the man is sittin’ on a couple millions, so I’m sure there are plenty of people that would love to chum it up with him.

Now Alan is havin’ a good ol’ time hanging out with Charlie, they play video games, and go to the movies together, but Alan’s wife Janeane (Jada Pinkett Smith) is jealous of their friendship. Please, who in the hell would want to hang out with her, putting together puzzle pieces all night, and attending photography classes, I’d rather hang out with crazy Charlie, than stale bread Janeane any day.

But it gets kind of hard to be friends with Charlie, since you never know when he’s gonna snap, so Alan tries to get him to see a therapist. Now I honestly think he should have stayed out of it, but I guess if they were gonna stay friends, Charlie would have to talk to someone. Okay, so Charlie is in counseling, but instead of dealing with his grief, he starts talking about the therapist’s boobs, and dumb stuff like that. See, when it comes to seeing a counselor, I believe that men should see men, and women should see women, to avoid sexual stuff like that from coming out.

“I don’t know Ms. Therapist, Charlie sounds like a hopeless case, and I know he’s getting on your nerves, but continue to see him anyway so you can keep milking him for $300 a hour, or whatever you’re charging, don’t worry, he’s good for it.” While the therapy sessions didn’t work, Charlie decides to open up to Alan.

Unfortunately, talking about his family causes him to wig out, and is arrested by police after a waving-a-gun-around episode. Charlie is forced to have psychiatric evaluations, in which the hospital wants to see him committed. Of course the hospital would like him in there, so they can financially rape him, then throw his crazy butt back out on the street when he runs out of money.

Well Alan and in-laws step in to see that it doesn’t happen, and on top of that, Alan brings another crazy person to Charlie’s house (a dental patient, another hilarious story), I guess just to see if she can help Charlie with his broken heart. I don’t know about that, but she can definitely help herself to his millions of dollars, I know I would.

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