The plot, a formulaic siphoning of My Best Friend's Wedding and Four Weddings and a Funeral, is pitted with eddies of inert melodrama. What keeps things moving are the sprightly performances by Sandler and Barrymore. Sandler shows an emotional range beyond his usual mercurial knucklehead; Barrymore drops her adolescent nymph in favor of a more sensitive, mature persona. Allen Covert is a cheesy delight as Robby's sidekick, personifying the superficial gloss of '80s pop culture. The cameos by Steve Buscemi, Billy Idol, and Jon Lovitz are entertaining bits, and the soundtrack, a virtual who's who of the "Big '80s," tops that of Grosse Pointe Blank.