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Billy Madison

Billy Madison

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great movie
Review: this movie is great it is adam sandler at his best it is so funny although some of it may be stupid but it is a good stupid {u know what i mean} i loved it i recamend it for 12 and up for alot of bad words and somes sexual parts.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Early success for Adam Sandler
Review: This movie is like -- soo riotously funny. No bearing on relity, but you'll laugh your splitting sides off! See Adam Sandler before he became so well known. His comic genius was already showing big time. As an heir with whacky friends, he has to repeat all grades of school in just a few weeks to convince his dad that he's worthy of his inheritance. And he has a riotous good time in the process. He meets a teacher, Veronica Vaughan, played by Bridgette Wilson. This is her only lead role I know of -- she's such an underrated actress who should have gone big places. See this underrated gem of a comedy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: SUPER MOVIE
Review: This movie is a great movie. It is so funny and a movie for all ages. It's about a grown man tht lives with his wealthy father and never got to get his high school diplom becasue his behavior he barley got threw elementry school. So he has to go back threw K-12 to get his fathers business.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Billy Madison-Halarious!
Review: This is a halarious movie starring Adam Sandler. The plot is, Billy Madison (Sandler) wants to take over his father's company, but his father thinks that he is to stupid to take it over. They make a deal that if Billy can do Elementary through high school in a certain amount of time that he can have the company. I totally reccommend this movie!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BEST ADAM SANDLER MOVIE EVER
Review: This is the best movie ever. It's funnier every time I watch it. How could you possibly not like it. There is no way!!! I saw this movie once and I was laughing my @$$ off. I went out the next day and bought it. If you don't think it's funny, then you are going deaf. "You can see the lips movin' but you can't make out the words."

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: O'Doyle rules!
Review: God, this movie is hilarious. This is the one that got me to become a "devoted" fan of Sandler's. I've seen all his films now, and you shouldn't give a damn what those critics who dismiss this movie say, they don't know [nothing].

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: classic
Review: funny classic comedy about a drunken guy who makes a bet with his dad that he can pass grades 1 - 12 in 1 year. hahaha o doyle rules.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My Favorite Sandler Flick
Review: "Billy Madison" is easily the best Adam Sandler flick that he has done so far. As always, Sandler's acting is top notch and the comedy great. It's easy for people who don't know about Sandler and have never seen him act before to say that this is easily one of the dumbest and far fetched movie that there is. Well, to tell you the truth, it's a little far fetched, but dumb, heck no!

The storyline is as follows. Billy Madison, son to a millionaire hotel owner is about to be given the task of running the company. His father's head man wants the job and says that it's ridiculous for Billy to get the job because he is dumb and isn't capable of running such a large company. To prove to his father that he is worthy of the job, Billy decides to spend a few months going all the way through Kindergarten to 12th Grade (of course, not a year for each grade). Through a funny plot and tons of great actors "Billy Madison" is a movie for a movie fan that appreciates a great comedy. This is Adam Sandler at his best and what I think is his greatest. This is not to be missed by any Sandler or comedy fan.

Happy Viewing!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: For Adam Sandler fans will love this One.
Review: An Rich Nitwit by the name of Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) bets with his Father (Darren McGavin) with a Silmeball Worker (Bradley Whitford), who could Win his Father Hotel Business Company but Billy has to go back to School starts from the Bottom to High-School.

Directed by Tamra Davis (Half-Baked, Cross Roads) made a watchable Dumb Comedy, which has become a Box Office Hit in the Winter of 1995. This Crude Comedy has some Funny Moments but Sandler got Better and Funnier in his others movies, he stars in. Chris Farley and Steve Buscemi appears Unbilled. This Film is Mostly for Fans of Sandler's only. Grade:B+.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Enthralling!!
Review: "Billy Madison" vies for my favorite film of all time. I never tire of watching it, and I have watched many times by now. It is a fascinating account of a man's re-assessment of his life after having a series of enlightenments. In some ways similar to the novel "The Address Book" by Anne Bernays, the film explores in serious ways what Sandler's "The Waterboy" looked at in comedy. "Billy Madison," however, uses excavation of the past and reframing of one's perspective on education to accomplish the change. As the character marvels during the film, "It's too damn hot for a penguin to be just walkin' around. I gotta send you back to the South Pole!"

While the themes may be familiar in Sandler's work, his inspiration for this project was, of course, Bergman's "Wild Strawberries." The context for Sandler's project is the upper class setting of mansions, luxury hotels, swimming pools, classy elementary schools, and Chris Farley's bus. Klimt's "Hope," Satie's gymnopedie, and German philosophy provide rich symbols for the psychology of Adam Sandler's character.

Undisciplined and somewhat constricted, he has accomplished very little and failed to make true on his father's driving hopes for his achievements. However weak she is, the depth of his feelings is also lacking. He fails to see how others feel about her, aside from their obvious disrespect for his gibberish and perhaps intimidation by his drunken rants. What does not fit into his plan for his life, he overcomes by ignoring. This repression leaves him ripe for upheaval following his return to the first grade.

A series of rich memories are evoked when his life is jarred out of complacency by a whizzing dodgeball and an overheard story about a lost dog. Moved by the idea of making a different sense of one's past in education, Billy begins experiencing small, revealing encounters with the teachers in his life. He begins to see that the self concept he harbored for so long is not congruent with the image others hold of him. His repression begins to crumble.

An interesting question is whether the Christopher Kelk character (Rollo), janitor of the elementary school, actually exists or is a symbol of Billy's denied, unfulfilled Hopes. It seems to be through encounters with the janitor that Billy comes into contact with the demons from his past failures at self-improvement. Perhaps this phantom is his repressed ego letting him know that the time has come for opening his eyes to more of the truth and for change to be permitted.

In any event, the script is layered and absorbing, Sandler's construction of the elementary school world is seamless, and the acting is pitch perfect. Theresa Merritt in particular is compelling as Juanita. The film creates a spell, an encapsulated world that commands attention until the very end. Interestingly, this is one of Sandler's films that seems to polarize viewers. For every ecstatic opinion about "Billy Madison" there is a scathing rejection. For my part, the film is part of my "Desert Island" must-haves. I feel like I have been enriched by watching it.


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