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10/18/08
Happy Gilmore (1996)
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Reviews Counted:49
Fresh:28
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: When Happy Gilmore, a would-be hockey player, hits a golf ball over 400 yards, he realizes that his true calling lies in that sport. So, to help his grandma regain her home from the IRS, he trades... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Carl Weathers
Director: Dennis Dugan
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Reviews for Happy Gilmore
Sandler's serious moments are dramatically deadly, while a little of his comedy goes a long way.
04/15/08
There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.
04/15/08
Top CriticNo review available.
02/03/03
No review available.
10/15/05
No review available.
02/23/08
No review available.
07/04/05
No review available.
01/31/05
Sandler's movie is worth a few laughs, but not many of the comic sequences are original, and even fewer are inspired.
01/01/00
Top CriticA lame, unoriginal comedy that may offer a few scattered chuckles, but more often than not, serves up a bewildering series of bizarre non-jokes, supposedly ironic product placement, cheesy music cues, and tired sight gags.
01/01/00
No review available.
11/22/04
Standard Adam Sandler vehicle.
11/12/02
You don't feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happy's brutal anarchy more effective.
02/13/01
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01/01/00
You probably already know if you think Adam Sandler is funny, so let that be your guide.
05/20/03
Lame, unfunny stuff.
09/10/05
[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.
04/15/08
Top CriticThe Happy Gilmore character is strange. I guess we are supposed to like him.
01/01/00
Top CriticHappy's tantrums, which the movie pretends are liberating explosions of self-expression, aren't nearly maniacal enough to reach comic delirium.
01/01/00
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