It tries to stitch a fantastical and comical premise (Sandler transforming into strangers and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans, including an uncomfortably rapey encounter with a beautiful customer) with family heartbreak (Max's dad — played by Dustin Hoffman — has left his mom, who suffers from dementia and can't quite figure out where her husband has gone) and a plot about an evil property developer (Ellen Barkin)
forcibly gentrifying the neighbourhood.