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Summary: There are 2 great movies by Sandler, Happy Gilmore is one
Review: There are two great movies by Adam Sandler. One is Billy Madison, and the other great movie is the classic golf movie Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore falls inline with the great comedy classics about golf in the past like caddyshack and is a definite must buy for your collection. Happy Gilmore originally planned to play hockey for his career. However there is one proplem, Happy can't play hockey because he is bad at the sport. He does have a strong swing when he is hitting the puck around and is noticed one day on a bet that he can hit the golf ball pretty long as well. Like a hockey player, Happe Gilmore does have an anger problem and ruins the peaceful environment of the golf course. This is a very entertaining movie, and if you love golf or Adam Sandler this is the movie for you.
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Summary: Should Be In All Video Collections
Review: I absolutely love this movie. If you're one for Adam Sandler humor, this is one of the tops for Sandler. I'm not going to make you mad by giving you plot information, but I must say there are so many laugh-out-loud moments in this movie. With a special guest appearance by Bob Barker, this movie really does have it all.It deserves a spot in all video collections. If you're trying to decide whether to buy this movie or not, stop debating it. Buy it today!
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Summary: Adam Sandler's best movie by far
Review: Happy Gilmore is by far Sandler's funniest film. After this, they all seemed to die off. The movie is definitely not an intellectual comedy, it's one that appeals to the primitive emotions like violence and anger. Sandler plays a horrible professional hockey player, who in desperate need of money, is forced to turn to golf for a second chance. Fortunately, Happy has an amazing slapshot which he translates into a golfing maneuver. Due to his very, very, short temper, hilarity ensues. Fearturing a cameo by Bob Barker and Kevin Nealon, I have not seen many movies more comical than this. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone who enjoys a good laugh, no matter what the punchline is.
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Summary: Happy Place
Review: This is a movie about a big time hockey fan named Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler), who just can't make the team. His grandmother losses her house to the IRS, and he has to put her in a home, and he has to find away to get the money to buy her house back. When the movers, take a little break, he makes a bet that he can hit the golf ball further, he hits the ball so far that he hits the house on the end of the street, it doesn't seem real, so he's told do it again for double or nothing, he hits and does it, and gets some money. He gets the idea to get paid at a driving range, and he is then asked to join a golf tour... so he could get paid he joins. This is a comedy about a hockey want to be becoming a great golfer. This is a great movie for any Adam Sandler fans, comedy fans, or even the golfer in the family.
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Summary: If I could only have one DVD....
Review: Adam Sandler is perfectly hilarious along with the fabulous cast of supporting actors. The girl in it isn't funny at all but in order to make the plot deep and well-rounded there had to be a love interest wth dramatic flair. I can say the same for "Billy Madison."
It doesn't mater whether you like golf or not. The movie's about more than the game. It's about a dream and a guy named... Happy.
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Summary: The price is wrong, Bobby!
Review: What an entertaining film! Say what you want about Sandlers humor, but I like it. Probably my favorite part of this film was Ben Stiller as the retirement home guy. He expanded "Arts and crafts time," and made the old people make quilts. It was laugh out loud when an eightly year old woman said, "My fingers hurt." Like most Sandler material, the key lies in the delivery. Roger Ebert accused this film of being too commercial (He spotted Heineken, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi, Pepsi Max, Subway sandwich shops, Budweiser (in bottles, cans, and Bud-dispensing helmets), Michelob, Visa cards, Bell Atlantic, AT&T, Sizzler, Red Lobster, Wilson, Golf Digest, the ESPN sports network, and Top-Flite golf balls.). He said that at the middle of the film, after seing so much Subway stuff, he didn't know if he wanted laughs or mustard (his review is available on
suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1996/02/1020768.html). I didn't mind the advertising because it is almost impossible to go on a golf course without advertising. Although I respect Mr. Ebert, I disagrre with his *1/2 review. If you don't know the plot, it's about Happy Gilmore (Sandler) who needs $275,000 to save his Grandma's house. After that, he goes to the driving range, and discoveres that he can hit a golf ball very far. Although it has a lot of dumb jokes, it has a lot of good one's, too. I understand that it's not The Graduate, Some Like it Hot, or A Shot in the Dark. Who cares? Thank you for taking the time to read my review and feel free to leave me a helpful/not helpful feedback. God Bless America!
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Summary: Where's The Wide-Screen DVD?
Review: Happy Gilmore is one of Adam Sandler's best movies, it is so hilarious and I do own this DVD but I'm disappointed that it's full-screen and not wide-screen and I really think they should put out a wide-screen version, and don't give me any baloney about it being in full-screen because it was filmed in Academy Flat, there are a lot of movies out on DVD in only full-screen that somebody always says it was filmed in Academy Flat so there is really no difference in full-screen or wide-screen but then you see a movie like Moonstruck etc that only have full-screen DVDs and you see them on TCM or other channels in wide-screen so oviously these movies are available in wide-screen but for some reason the movie companies decided not to make wide-screen an option on the DVD becasue they either assume that people don't like wide-screen or they are planning to release special edition wide-screen DVDs that they know suckers like me will want to buy to replace the full-screen DVDs.
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Summary: By Far Sandler's Best !!
Review: I've seen 'em all, and even though I will always laugh at any Adam Sandler movie, I'll laugh till I cry with this one.
Funny from start to finish. Only down side to this DVD is the Fullscreen only format. I guess most of Happy is better than no Happy at all.
Two thumbs up (or something like that).....
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Summary: The Best Sandler
Review: This has to be my favorite Adam Sandler movie ever. A want to be hockey player forced into playing golf to help his grandmother out of a bind. The mishaps and the incounters with the other, prim and proper, golf pros is hilarious. This is another one of his movies in which Sandler plays a vulgar, common, eighties, kind of idiot. This movie is a must have.
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Summary: Happy Gilmore
Review: The movie Happy Gilmore is the funniest laugh-out loud golf comedy since Caddy Shack. From the very first scene to the last, Adam Sandler and his cast will keep you in stiches and gasping for a breath. Unlike other of his comedies, Adama Sandler is not the only one delivering the laughs. A cast, who isn't that famous yet, but hilarious and meant for each role that they play accompany Sandler. The movie follows the entertaining career change of Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) who goes from being a brutal hockey player to a golf sensation. After finding out that his grandma has lost her house as the result of not paying her taxes, Happy vows to get the house back. After being cut from the local hockey team, Happy is discovered by an old golf pro, Chubs Peterson. He tells Happy that he has the potential to make a large sum of money playing golf. A light bulb goes off in Gilmore's head and he decides to put his hockey career on hold for a while to pursue this idea of becoming a golfer and thereby raising the money to get his grandma's house back. After winning a local tournament Gilmore makes the pro tour and is ready to start making money. His journey through the tour takes many comedic ups and downs as he battles with the villian of the movie, Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald). Shooter will do anything to prevent Happy Gilmore from succeeding. This movie is a classic and undoubtedly one of the best comedies of all time. There is not a dull moment in the movie and anybody who dosen't laugh at Gilmore's antics on the course must surely have no sense of humour. There is no stop to the endless number of sidesplitting actors in this movie. Even when Adam Sandler is not in the scene, Christopher McDonald amuses you with his arrogant yet comical style and the cameo by Bob Barker is icing on the cake. I give the movie five out of five stars and recommend it for anyone who likes to laugh.
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