Billy Madison

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Summary: Great movie, if you're a kid. Which I am.
Review: I like this movie a lot. There is something about being free to do what you want in life. This is how the movie starts of for Sandler.

Well, to cut the review short, basically Billy is a grown up adult who is about to take over a company. Things don't go that way, in which there is obstacle he must overcome.

Meaning, he must go back through school to earn the company. Billy, being a grown up kid, makes the movie funny to the core.

Well, this is fav of the Adam Sandler movies. Watch it. If it doesn't prove to your liking, maybe you can hand it to your neighbor.

This is one of the best comedies I have seen.

-Calvin

Rating:
Summary: Adam Sandler... The Beginning!
Review: There is more here than meets the eye. BILLY MADISON has its sophomoric and predictable plot and characters. However, the film's driving theme is that underlying fear that all adults have nightmares about; that is the very thought of having to relive your school years over again. This is what Billy Madison has to go through to prove to his father, a Hotel Chain Chairman Brian Madison (Darren McGavin--A CHRISTMAS STORY), that he is not the idiot he is perceived to be and he is capable enough to take over the hotel chairmanship when his father retires. The audience is given the privy information that his father had to pay all of Billy's teachers in order for him to pass high school. In one hilarious moment, before his father gives the blessing for Billy go back to school, the elder Madison recalls a spelling bee in which Billy spells the word 'rock' "r-o-k". At which Billy exclaims "Yeah, so what's your point?!" At the same time, one of Brian Madison's sidemen Eric (Bradley Whitford--tv's THE WEST WING) is scheming to take over that chairmanship by trying to sabotage Billy's foray back into the school system. Adam Sandler had made a couple of films prior to this, but this film and HAPPY GILMORE established his screen persona and enhancing his SNL popularity. Sandler is hilarious (in the eyes of Sandler fans only?) with his child-man persona that only he can pull off. Also, there are some hilarious cameos that help the plot along (i.e. Steve Buscemi, Chris Farley, and Norm McDonald). As with a lot of Sandler's films, there is always that underlying theme of the main character's devotion to family members no matter the conflict (i.e. HAPPY GILMORE, the grandmother; THE WATERBOY, the mother) and in this film, its the father. The children characters he meets as he is going through the grades are not too annoying or smart-alecky (Adam Sandler fills that void to a degree) and a few of them are engaging. Another funny aspect of the film is, as Billy passes each grade (from kindergarten to high school), he is thrown a big outdoor party at his father's mansion. Overall, a typical Adam Sandler effort that has alot of funny moments, funny characters, a thought-provoking plot of having to go back to school, and a very attractive co-star, Bridgette Wilson (Mrs. Pete Sampras) as Veronica, one of Billy Madison's teachers.

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Summary: Best of Adam Sandler
Review: This is by far my favorite Adam Sandler movie. The plot is outrageous, Sandler is hilarious and the supporting cast is fabulous. With cameos from some of the Saturday Night Live regulars such as Chris Farley and Norm MacDonald, this is a laugh-out loud movie.

Hilarious and funny. A must see!!!!