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Summary: Alright, if you don't mind wasting an afternoon.
Review: In "Anger Management," Dave Buznick (Adam Sandler) is a doormat. Thanks to an early hideous childhood experience, he retreats from confrontation and concedes everything. Enter--Dr Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who sits next to Dave on a flight. Buddy's obnoxious, domineering behaviour prompts Dave to squeak for a set of headphones from the disinterested flight attendant, and when Dave refuses to be ignored, he ends up arrested for assaulting the attendant. Dave is sentenced to attend 20 hours of anger management classes, and imagine his surprise when he discovers that his mentor is Dr Rydell--a man who's so pushy and annoying, that even a saint would explode. Dr Rydell soon invades Dave's life-literally, and things will never be the same again. When the film first started, I thought perhaps I was about to see a social satire--biting comedy that delivers comments against the sort of society that creates anger management programmes and customer service departments that couldn't care less. Unfortunately, this film kept steadily at the superficial level only, and wasn't really funny enough to even maintain that. The funniest parts had to be the anger management classes--John Turturro and Luis Guzman delivered great performances as a couple of really angry men. Stacy and Gina--the porn star couple who were a little too angry with a playmate--were also very funny. There were far too many references to male genitalia. This didn't pass off as a running joke, and it got old fast. The initial parts of the film had some funny moments, but the humour level was hard to maintain, and before long the film slipped into yet another soppy romance. The ending was so ridiculous as it undermined the entire premise of the film. "The Wedding Singer" remains Sandler's funniest film--at least for me. Due to the sheer volume of sexual references, this is not a film for the kiddies--displacedhuman--Amazon Reviewer--
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Summary: Unmanageable and Disappointing, "Anger" is Irritating
Review: This highly unmanageable comedy is in need of management itself. With a good premise, good actors, and good marketing, you'd think the high-grossing film would be perfect. I actually felt sorry for the film it was so disappointing. Yeah, there are some funny scenes and excellent actors, but the film was...a mess. The script needed so much more work. It was badly edited, in that boring scenes were longer than the interesting and fun ones. The film itself has a personality disorder. Throughout the entire film, the story switches back and forth between humorous and stupid. Sandler himself doesn't really know what to do. He and the director tried to make "Anger Management" a "Happy Gilmore" when it's MEANT to be like "Big Daddy" or a film that's more developed and refined, for Sandler. What we got was an unfunny, sometimes stupid film that has more unlikable spots than likeable ones. Jack Nicholson is great, as is Sandler and a charming Marisa Tomei. The broad storyline is perfect. But the overall product is sloppy, unfunny, and unmanageable. Sorry.
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Summary: Jazzed performances make a so-so-movie worth the fare
Review: No doubt Jack Nicholson has a blast with this part as lunatic 'anger management' therapist, Buddy Rydell, who is assigned to reform mild-mannered Adam Sandler, unjustly accused of assaulting a flight attendant. There are a lot of laughs, but they fall into one of two categories: the really good ones, that come from the outstanding performances from Nicholson, Sandler, and a host of great actors in smaller parts and cameos; and then the merely raunchy ones. In the first category I'd put every scene featuring John Turturro and Luis Guzman as fellow anger addicts in Sandler's group therapy class, a cameo by John C. Reilly as a Buddhist monk, another cameo by Woody Harrelson I would not spoil for you, and more. In the second class I would put the huge number of jokes based on female p*rn stars necking with each other, on an ex-boyfriend of Sandler's girlfriend who is very.....well he's very LONG you see, on picking up girls in bars with lines about exploding pants. That sort of thing. I'm all for a little raunchiness if it's truly funny, but very few laughs manage to be both raunchy and funny both. Furthermore, the ending is just plain old-fashioned silly, undermines the whole movie. But hey go see it anyway. As always, Nicholson is worth your money.
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Summary: Good, but not either man's best
Review: This movie has a lot to enjoy. You get a subdued Adam Sandler who slowly loses it until he's almost "Happy Gilmore" again by the end. You get a psychotic-but-in-control Jack Nicholson who looks like he's slipped back into his "Joker" mode from Batman for a while. You get some great "Hey, I know that guy from somewhere" faces for the co-stars (who all turn in great performances). The only thing you miss is all the laughs you could have been given. While there are some absolutely hilarious moments (Sandler reluctantly gets into a fight with a blind guy in a bar), there are some gross-out moments that you can skip (two women kissing and doing other things throughout the movie). The language is also kind of fierce in parts, and the biggest running joke in the film is about one character's rather large body part. All in all, it has moments of brilliance that will make you laugh out loud, and then it will dip into some trash "funny" moment that will only to elicit a groan. There's some great cameos here, so don't take your eyes off the screen or you may miss 'em! Don't take the kids, but adults might enjoy it.
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Summary: Not one of Sandlers best...
Review: I love Adam Sandler, his movies make me laugh, it is that "stupid" comedy that I love. Billy Madison, Happy Gillmore, Wedding Singer, Big Daddy are Sandler classics. Little Nicky, although a BOMB at the box office, I still think was funny. Waterboy in my opinion was HORRIBLE, and Mr. Deeds was so/so at best. Anger Managment is better than Deeds, but not one of his better movies. Most jokes fall flat this time, there were only a handful of times I laughed out loud. It has all the cameos that made other Sandler films great, best being former NY Mayor Rudy Gulliani, and Derek Jeter and Roger Clemens from the Yankees. Save your money til it comes out on video...Oh, by the way, Marrisa Torme looks HOT!!!!
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Summary: Funny movie with some questionable humor
Review: Give the man some credit: Adam Sandler knows what his target audience wants to see in his movies. ANGER MANAGEMENT certainly doesn't disappoint: it has its share of juvenile lewdness, politically incorrect humor, and flatulence jokes. But unlike some of his Saturday Night Live peers, Sandler knows that you can only make so many [obscene] jokes in a ninety minute film. There's usually something sweeter underneath. In ANGER MANAGEMENT, Sandler plays mild-mannered Dave Buznik, who suddenly finds himself sentenced to anger managment class. Directing his therapy is Dr. Buddy Rydell, played by Jack Nicholson. The therapy becomes more difficult for Dave when he finds himself placed in Buddy's intensive anger management program, which requires the two of them to live together in the close quarters of Dave's apartment. The screenplay hinges on the chemistry between Sandler and Nicholson, and for the most part, it works. Sandler plays Dave as quiet and emotionally suppressed. Buddy Rydell is portrayed by Nicholson with an intense energy that works well with the part. While neither role is a great stretch for either actor, in the end the relationship works, and the odd pairing makes for some interesting scenes. The "sweeter" part of this film is provided by the relationship between Dave and his girlfriend Linda, played by Marisa Tomei. The film is obviously centered on Dave and Buddy, but Tomei is a welcome addition to her few scenes. In the end, most people will either see this film because they like Sandler or not see the film because they hate Sandler. I'm not a big Sandler fan but the pairing was too unusual to miss. In the end, I thought it was an enjoyable comedy that has some good laughs, although some of them are definitely at the expense of political correctness.
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Summary: Funny Parts--Lame Overall
Review: I adore Jack Nicholson, and that's why I went to see this movie. I doubt I'd given it a second thought had he not been in it, because I'm not a big Adam Sandler fan. (Sandler was surprisingly not obnoxious, as he tends to be.) I laughed quite a few times. There definitely were entertaining parts of the movie. However, the storyline was incredibly stupid. I wanted to like it so much, but I walked out of the cinema thinking "What is Jack Nicholson doing in a lame movie like that?!"
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Summary: *shakes head sadly*
Review: Adam Sandler is a funny, funny man. Several years later, "Happy Gilmore" continues to crack my stuff up. And - more recently - I applauded his reinvention in "Punch Drunk Love". Sandler. Yay, Sandler. Having established that... I'm not quite sure what happened in "Anger Management". Ridiculously farfetched plots, slapstick humor, and Sandler flick alumni are standard fare when it comes to the S-man; I love 'em, you love 'em, we've all come to eagerly expect them...but these elements just don't *work* this time around. This movie wasn't funny...or even remotely entertaining. Truth be told, I've never been so bored or restless during a film. It does have a few novelty moments, courtesy of some cameo appearances. Woody Harrelson as a transexual prostitute? Heather Graham obsessively jamming brownies in her face? Rudy Giulani calling out for a "five-second frencher"? Thrills, albeit cheap ones. Jack Nicholson. Great actor, *extremely* under-utilized in this movie. He spends approximately 80% of the film, making exaggerated "all work and no play..."-esque faces. While entertaining, elastic Jack gestures do not a fine movie make. Even my boyfriend - of the "Sandler is God" mentality - was disappointed in this one. Go figure. In short: I can't really recommend this movie to anyone...die-hard Sandler fans included. Definitely a shame, given my own expectations of the movie. In my humble opinion, the most gripping part of my entire movie-going experience was the wicked, wicked Matrix 2 preview (woo!). Aside from that...I'd wait for the DVD release in a few months.
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Summary: Cheap Emotionalism, Spotty Performances, and Good Ol' Jack..
Review: There were three or four scenes in the film where I laughed deeply and freely. It was some funny stuff! I enjoyed Nicholson's performance. I even enjoyed watching Sandler from time to time. And I definitely enjoyed watching the classy and beautiful Ms. Tomei. But despite the fact that a substantial amount of humor, smarts and beauty go into the film, it is crippled due to poor casting (Sandler's performance is irritatingly uneven compared to Nicholson's) and even poorer writing (much of the story is derivative of other, greater works). As entertainment it works on a few levels: engaging characters, beautiful NYC, nice twists and turns. But in order to have been considered a complete film, its creators would have had to infuse a greater believability, a greater originality. Thank you.
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Summary: FIVE STARS A NO BRAINER
Review: How an individual can give this movie only two stars is beyond me. This movie is hilarious great acting and directing. I highly recommend this movie to everyone. Jack at his best and Sandler as funny as ever.
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