[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.
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04/15/08
Happy Gilmore (1996)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:4
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.1/10
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
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Top CriticThere are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.
04/15/08
Top CriticIt may smell awful from a distance, especially if you have low tolerance for lowbrow humor, but up close this yarn about an unlikely golf star is fairly painless.
06/18/02
Top CriticYou 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
Top CriticSandler'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 CriticSandler plays this a lot smarter than, say, a Jim Carrey character, and with less slapstick. Still, this is not delicate, subtle stuff: It's smart low-brow, and only for those who like their humor a bit offbeat.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Happy Gilmore may not be an ace in the hole, but it beats par by a long shot.
01/01/00
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.
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