Adam Sandler is one of the very few actors working in Hollywood who is almost completely critic-proof. Despite how many negative reviews each of his movies get and how many Golden Raspberries they’re nominated for, they still perform significantly well at the box office.
The actor has a ton of great dramatic roles too, but they’re a completely absent here, as Sandler’s goofier roles are adored by audiences. And though he is now working almost exclusively with Netflix with very few of his movies hitting multiplexes, Sandler has seen some amazing box office figures over three decades.
10 Anger Management (2003) - $195,745,823
Anger Management’s success is helped significantly by the fact that Sandler is starring alongside none other than Jack Nicholson.
The movie is about a man who suppresses his feelings, acts passively aggressively, and has the odds stacked against him, which unsurprisingly didn’t fair well with critics, even with the beloved Nicholson co-headlining. However, Anger Management just might be the most underrated Sandler movie of the 2000s, and it did great with audiences.
9 50 First Dates (2004) - $198,520,934
Being the second of three collaborations with Drew Barrymore, the middle movies of trilogies are almost always the best.
Cashing in on the great chemistry they had in Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates is Sandler’s most commercially successful romantic comedy of the 2000s, as his character tries to seduce a girl with amnesia over and over again. Unfortunately, it was again completely lambasted by critics, as they called it Groundhog Day without any depth.
8 Don’t Mess With The Zohan (2008) - $204,313,400
You Don’t Mess With The Zohan is one of the stranger characters of Sandler’s, as he plays Zohan, an Israeli army counterterrorist commando. The controversial movie was actually written by Judd Apatow.
Though the movie was, surprise-surprise, critically panned almost entirely across the board, the movie was shockingly praised by Roger Ebert, the most respected movie critic in history.
7 Just Go With It (2011) - $214,945,591
In the throes of the time when Sandler realized he could use movies as vacations after the huge success of Grown Ups, one year later came Just Go With It, a Hawaii based rom-com with Jennifer Aniston.
There was no hiding that the movie was an excuse for a vacation, as the movie’s original title was literally Holiday In Hawaii, but it was again another hit that was derided by critics.
6 Big Daddy (1999) - $234,801,895
Closing out a successful decade with Big Daddy, a movie that follows Sandler’s character unwittingly foster a child who claims to be his best friend’s son, the movie did well with audiences due to it’s heartwarming narrative and the way that Sandler hilariously teaches the child massively bad habits.
It was one of the actor’s worst reviewed movies of the 1990s, but that didn’t stop it from hurdling past that $200 million mark at the box office.
5 Click (2006) - $240,685,326
Click is one of the few high concept movies Adam Sandler has made, as it’s about a remote control that gives the user the ability to change parts of his/her life.
Being one of the It’s A Wonderful Life parody movies most people forgot about, it was still negatively received even if it was one of the more dramatic turns from the actor. Regardless, the movie made more than $240 million worldwide.
4 Pixels (2015) - $244,874,809
Pixels was undeniably one of the worst movies of 2015, but it somehow still managed to rake in almost $250 million worldwide.
However, even though the movie made so much money, it still underperformed at the box office, as the budget was much higher than any other Sandler movie. With a budget of close to $130 million, the movie would have actually likely lost money taking in to account the marketing budget too.
3 Grown Ups 2 (2013) - $246,984,278
And with one movie’s success regardless of its critical response, a sequel will inevitably rear it’s ugly head a couple of years later.
Just like how its predecessor is one of the worst movies of 2010, Grown Ups 2 is undoubtedly one of the worst movies of 2013. The sequel even had one of the worst movie posters of 2013, but it’s terrible marketing didn’t stop the movie’s success, even if it didn’t do quite as well as the first movie.
2 Grown Ups (2010) - $271,457,301
The confusion behind the success of Grown Ups is insurmountable. The movie is one of the worst movies of 2010, and it had very little of a narrative as it followed Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Kevin James have a great time on vacation.
Grown Ups is one of the movies where the negative criticism is warranted, but it still can’t stop the every-man box office titan.
1 The Hotel Transylvania Series - $1,361,751,376
Hotel Transylvania is easily the most success Adam Sandler has seen at the box office. All three movies in the series are his top grossing movies, with the first movie making $358,375,603, the sequel making $474,800,000, and 2018’s Summer Vacation making $528,583,774 worldwide.
The series will undoubtedly continue, as not only has each consecutive movie performed better than the last, but there are still a lot of monsters fans want to see who haven’t appeared yet too.
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