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Summary: THIS MOVIE IS NOT FUNNY
Review: THIS MOVIE IS NOT FUNNY IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. IT IS STUPID AND POINTLESS, THE DIRECTOR OVIOUSLY HAD NO SENSE OF HUMOR WHAT SO EVER. ADAM SANDLER PLAYS A NORMAL GUY, WHY THE **** WOULD YOU GET ADAM SANDLER TO PLAY A NORMAL, UNFUNNY GUY IN A MOVIE!? THIS MOVIE WAS TERRIBLE.
Rating:
Summary: Painful to watch
Review: I had some expectation before I saw this movie that I would see a pleasantly humorous story. Considering Adam Sandler's history, my expectations were not high but at least I had hoped for a pleasant diversion. Was I wrong! From the start this movie was painful to watch. This was as humorous and pleasant to watch as surgery on puppies without anesthesia. It may not have been as bad as "Ishtar" but I found it much more difficult to watch. My wife walked out of "Anger Mangagement" after only 10 minutes. She was "angry" enough to demand her money back.
The situations were highly contrived, totally improbable and sophomoric. The world displayed in this movie was straight out of Dante's "Nineth Level of Hell". And, this was supposed to pass for humor. The acting was passable however in a vehicle like this no one walks away unscathed. Shame on Nicholson for getting involved in this turkey. Must have been the money.
In the viewer's case, save YOUR money.
Rating:
Summary: PAINFULLY UNFUNNY
Review: The poster sold the project: Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler nose to nose. ANGER MANAGEMENT (Columbia Tristar) is a series of stupid sophomoric skits. Even worse, instead of Sandler's well-honed crazed persona, he's normal here. A stupid film that could've been really funny if played as an angry guy meeting a REALLY ANGRY GUY.
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Summary: Poor Adam Sandler.
Review: I really feel bad for Mr. Sandler. It was obvious from his days on SNL that he can play different characters; and that he can act when lead by a good director("Punch Drunk Love"). But once again he has been type-cast as a fumbling dork on the verge of violence. Apparently, the 13-year-olds and delayed-adolescents love it, because all I heard at the box-office was "CHA-CHING!" There is another Hollywood trend being embraced here: let's cast a repsected veteran actor with a younger, less-respected or lesser-known actor. You want examples? How about "Hollywood Homicide" and "The Recruit"? This is derivative and predictable, testosterone-based comedy. Crude sexual humor has been done so many times...that I'm getting a headache. If you want this kind of humor, watch reruns of "Married with Children." At least on that show it was so cheesy and ridiculous that it came across funny. They spent millions of dollars making this film, people! They should have had a few more re-writes. However, if I really hated the movie I would have given it 1 star. It's just all been done before. Doesn't anyone else out there get tired of hearing the same jokes? There were three moments worth mentioning. John Turturro, with his over-the-top, raging mania was humorous, but he didn't get enough screen time. Heather Graham(yowza!), has an extremely funny moment throwing fudge(or was it chocolate cake?), yelling about how no man will sleep with her because she's fat(yeah, right). The remaining moment comes when Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson get into a rendition of "I Feel Pretty" from "West Side Story," stopped in the middle of a bridge, traffic congestion forming behind them as they sing. But the song is repeated later in the score, as well as a finale at the end of the film which makes it sound tired. I rented this film on a coupon: rent one, get one free! Am I glad this was the "free" one.
Rating: 
Summary: good
Review: There was something delightful about Adam Sandler's first two movies. Proudly goofy and delightfully stupid, they still managed some great bits and Sandler threw himself into every routine with the kind of energy he showed on Saturday Night Live. It was when Sandler tried to mix actual romantic/dramatic plots into the usual comedy ("Big Daddy", "Mr. Deeds") that things started to turn sour."Anger Management" is another in a long line of similar Sandler characters, only this time the film seems to be more concerned with the fact that "Hey, we got Jack Nicholson, too!" than actually crafting anything much that's very funny. There's a ridiculous amount of potential here, but nobody involved seems to really care much. Cameos - a staple of any Sandler movie - barely raise a laugh (Bobby Knight's kinda funny) or are just embarrassing (Woody Harrelson as a German transvestite). Sandler stars as Dave Buznik, an assistant who gets into some hot water on a plane flight to St. Louis. It wasn't his fault - as the trailers give away, he was just asking for some headphones - but the judge doesn't see it his way. He's assigned to Dr. Buddy Rydell (Nicholson)'s anger management group - Rydell just happens to be the passenger that was sitting next to him on the plane. That doesn't help though - one of his fellow group members gets him into a bar fight that includes a blind man. This, while not funny in theory, leads to the film's funniest moment, where Dave's lawyer (Kevin Nealon, terrific) tries to prove that the blind man isn't that blind. So, instead of being thrown in jail, Buddy suggests to the judge that Dave be assigned to him for thirty days. What Dave doesn't realize is that this makes Buddy his roommate. Prime comedy material, right? Wrong. "Anger Management" plays it safe, never going beyond that in its attempt to put Sandler and Nicholson against each other. The idea that Buddy is more in need of some serious work than Dave is potentially decent idea never really developed into anything too hilarious by the script, which nevertheless tries to milk that one joke again and again (and again). Again, I like Sandler. "Happy Gilmore" and "Billy Madison" took clever, silly ideas, some classic lines and made the most out of the characters. "Wedding Singer" was funny, if forgettable. "Punch-Drunk Love" didn't go over well with some audiences, but I thought Sandler provided a fine performance, and I liked that he was moving his career in another direction with a better director than he usually works with. In "Anger Management", however, he seems to realize that he's playing the least interesting version of a character that's he's done so many times before; even the slow-burn rage that Sandler has made famous really isn't shown here that much. It also doesn't help that he's overshadowed by Nicholson (who seems to be at least trying to add some energy to a movie that desperately needs it), or the fact that the two don't have much chemistry. The movie also manages to fit Marisa Tomei (looking better than ever) in a few scenes as Dave's girlfriend, but she's criminally underused. If there was a "Most Thankless Role" award at the Oscars next year, she'd be a lock to win. The film seemed even a bit more promising, given that Peter Segal was directing. Segal has previously been responsible for "Tommy Boy" and "Nutty Professor II"; neither a classic, but the former moved along and had two great performances, while the latter was an improvement over the first film. Here, he shows little style, poor sense of pacing and the kind of comedic timing that the previous two films showed is not seen here. To his credit, the screenplay is terrible, but Segal doesn't try to make magic out of mediocrity. While I do admit that "Anger Management" throws out a few good bits (many of which you've already seen in the trailer), there are an alarming amount of jokes here that fall flat (having the two characters stop in the middle of rush-hour traffic and sing "I Feel Pretty" is just painfully unfunny and, like several of the film's gags, just stops the story in its tracks), go on longer than they should, or the punch line is made far too obvious. In addition, it occasionally seems like a scene transition or two are missing. Again, there's so much potential here. Both stars could have been so capable of turning this situation into a delightful comic nightmare, where Buddy's methods got increasingly weirder and Dave finally started to lock horns with his new therapist - in other words: the whole thing, much angrier. The film's worst step was making Dave really not in need of anger management, finding himself in a situation he shouldn't have been in. The movie could have made this into a delightfully dark nightmare, but it doesn't. In a better version, Dave would have been as implosive - if not even more - than he's described as being. Now that would have been funny.
Rating:
Summary: Worst Ever? It's not even that good!!!!!!!
Review: What on earth does it say about shallow modern minds that people actually gave this a five-star rating?????? Unfathomable!!! Appalling drivel, all the more annoying in that I watched it on an evening when I was in need of a laugh or two. Script utterly devoid of anything remotely memorable, from structure to wit/humour....I agree completely with the person who wrote that you had to suspend disbelief over the nature of the story line to such an extent that the elastic snapped. To think that the box above insists I have to give this even one star. To think that people got paid for making this!!! DON'T GO HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: What happend Adam?
Review: I only saw this movie for one reason...Adam Sandler... I loved his older movies such as Billey Madison and Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy was good also Mr. Deeds was ok .. maybe 3.5/5 but this movie was a dissapointment. although there were the occasional laugh out loud scenes it was a pretty boring movie and when you go to see an AS movie you expect it to be funny. :(
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Summary: I DIDN'T LAUGH AT ALL
Review: I judge as a good comedy, a movie that makes me laugh. I didn't laugh at all. It's simply not believable.I will not criticize the actors.They are okay. The story is just flat with jokes that you expect longtime before they happen on screen. The worst moment is the scene in the stadium...completely bull.... I was bored and this therapy didn't work on me. It's completely the comedy genre you expect for Nicholson. On the other hand, it's too clean to fit Adam Sandler unfortunately.
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Summary: I'm in therapy now for depression because of this movie
Review: Being that this movie was supposed to be a comedy, I can't believe how motionless I sat through this heap. I was a statue of non-laughter. Adam Sandler causes a commotion on a plane and is forced by a court to attend anger management classes, instructed by Jack Nicholson. You would expect the pairing of Opera Man and Jack Nicholson to result in a lot of laughs, and there are a few funny moments littered about, but most of the gags were forced and fell flat.
I understand realism isn't important in a comedy, but the entire premise was hastily thrown together just to team these two clowns together. The court and other scenes were so unreal that too much suspension of disbelief was required. Even so, it still could have been funny, but I was shocked at how poorly written some of these jokes were. Sandler seems perfect for this part, as his persona is one of gentleless with a hidden rage lurking underneath, but his odd line delivery isn't working anymore. The whole 'quiet mouse/sudden yelling' thing that he did so well in movies like the Wedding Singer and on Saturday Night Live, is getting old.
Nicholson, who is such a good actor and just a naturally funny guy, couldn't do much with the nonsense in this script.
There were some good cameos towards the end, including a grand appearance by the majestic Yankee Stadium, but by then my face had already frozen into stone. My girlfriend looked over at me and thought I had died.
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Summary: I can't believe some of these reviews!!
Review: This is possibly the worst movie I've seen in years. There is nothing good about this movie! The story is bad and the acting is even worse. Do yourself a favor and don't waste your money on this dreadful film. I could barely stay in the theatre.
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