No matter how many times I watch The Wedding Singer, the character Robbie Hart always does something in the film that makes me think hard about true love. This time around, since I saw it a few weeks ago, it was all about the little things. Today, I’d like to talk about Robbie Hart and about what makes him so unique that I would include him in my Wednesday Warriors series.
You know you’re in trouble when you look through your movie collection and all you can find is an Adam Sandler movie. In truth, that’s a good thing, since trouble means laughing through it even after multiple viewings haven’t diminished the impact of the content. The film The Wedding Singer is like that. Filled with inside jokes and funny transitions, the flick comes with two admirable stars whose chemistry flows from the screen.
Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler) is a wedding singer who loses his fiancée at the altar. The no-show devastates him enough to cause him to have a meltdown of sorts. During this time, Julia Sullivan (Drew Barrymore), the new employee at the wedding hall he plays at, and his future romantic interest, promises to hire Hart’s band as the band who should play for her own wedding. As the story progresses, the two discover that their friendship is more than what they expect and confront their feelings for each other in one of the most sentimental and funniest movie endings.
What makes Robbie a unique character to admire is the way he handles life. Other than his fiancée dumping him, he doesn’t allow life to dictate the way he lives. He’s a wedding singer—how cool is that? Every weekend is party time. Additionally, given he lives in a small town where he grew up, he has decided to live his life where his kids can grow up safe and secure away from the big city madness that grips all twentysomethings like him.
He doesn’t make a lot of money. So what? He may not have the best of opportunities to move forward with his life. So what? He’s happy. That’s what counts. He realizes that, and anyone around him knows he’s the relaxed type who enjoys his time with friends and family. That counts for something, doesn’t it?
Regarding his relaxed attitude—nothing really bothers Robbie. One of his older students could pour two meatballs with sauce in his hands, but rather than get annoyed, he runs with it and is grateful for the thought. His best friend Julia has that same relaxed attitude. She doesn’t have a problem with Robbie’s wedding singer status, his small-town dreams and his penchant for laughing at the weirdest of things. She loves him just the same.
Which brings me to Robbie’s best character attribute. With him, it’s the little things:
I wanna make you smile whenever you’re sad
Carry you around when your arthritis is bad
All I wanna do is grow old with you.
I’ll get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks
Oh, it could be so nice, growin’ old with you.
I’ll miss you, kiss you, give you my coat when you are cold.
Need you, feed you, I’ll even let you hold the remote control.
So let me do the dishes in the kitchen sink
Put you to bed when you’ve had too much to drink.
Oh, I could be the man to grow old with you.
I wanna grow old with you.
If anything, Robbie Hart has heart. And in a world where things sometimes move too fast, Robbie is a welcome relief to de-stress and look at life through a different pair of eyes.
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What do you think of Robbie Hart. Have you seen The Wedding Singer?
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The subtleties throughout the whole movie are just great; one of my top five – SHAKA CHAN! (which now ends all of my awkward social moments.)
One of my favorites! I love Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore! They work so well together. Love the whole 80’s feel too.
The chemistry between these two is so obvious! I loved them in 50 First Dates as well!
Loved this film
I get really mad at Adam Sandler because he’s putting out total crap movies these days (“Pixels” has been savaged in the reviews) and he used to do such fun stuff. Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer are two of my favorite comedies. And I think Robbie is sweet and charming and funny. Now get out of my Van Halen T-shirt before you curse the band and they break up. LOL
“Once again, things that could’ve been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!”
Love this movie – do love right after he is dumped his “Love Stinks” rendition at the wedding. That’s good stuff right there.
I am so glad you featured Robbie Hart as today’s warrior! I love the scene when he’s all angst-ridden and singing anger songs at the wedding reception…love this movie1
My favorite part is when he says something like, “The song’s a bit uneven ’cause it was when I was breaking up with so-and-so.” And then he goes to sing it and you can tell the chorus was when he had his mental break episode!
I love this movie because of its 80’s feel and Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore are real people here. Adam sometimes tries to hard to be funny and here he is just an average person trying to make it in the world by doing something he loves. He also is a stand up guy too.
That’s what I love about the character the most. He’s the regular Joe everybody loves and couldn’t do without. He’s such a cool, relaxed guy. I think that’s why I love this character so much!