Happy Gilmore (film): the critics, unsurprisingly, hated it

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I love this movie and while I can understand where people start to feel as though Sandler plays the same character in every movie that he is in, this was at the beginning, so people didn't have a chance to be sick of his shtick at that point in time.

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I am extremely immature for my age. I never grew up and sometimes that feels like a point of pride and other times it seems a bit embarrassing. It is too late now though, I am who I am and that man-child inside of me really enjoys this movie despite its flaws.

Adam Sandler plays Happy Gilmore, a failed hockey player who accidentally finds out he has a tremendous ability at golf. Due to financial difficulties that his grandmother is facing, he enters pro golf tournaments in an effort to help her out. He quickly finds out that he can actually make a lot of money doing this.

The problem is, he is nothing like a "real" golfer. He refuses to wear traditional golf attire, he has frequent rage outburts that get him in trouble with the tour and invokes the ire of other traditional players, most notably "Shooter" McGavin (Christopher McDonald.)

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I can't say for certain, but being in this film may have actually been damaging to McDonald's career

Some of the scenes are poorly shot but I don't think the director and producer really cared that it was obvious that the alligators were fake, or that the aerial shots of the ball flying indicate a much greater distance than is actually traveled. Maybe they were messing with us.

One of the most famous scenes that many people are likely familiar with even if they haven't seen the movie is the fight between Bob Barker and Happy Gilmore during a celebrity golf classic.

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I bet that was a lot of fun to film and an unintended side-effect of this scene was that "The Price is Right" experienced a surge in younger viewers after the film was released. A demographic that the show had been trying to capture (unsuccessfully) for years.

If you don't like Sandler, you will definitely not like this movie. From a cinematography point of view, it is also pretty bad. However, if you enjoy juvenile humor I think this movie is a lot of fun. I have seen it many times and still enjoy a re-watch every now and then.

7 / 10

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Realise from your review, I heard about this movie - the term even became common - he’s like Happy Gilmore ...
I’m loading it up right after this dinner ...

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Funny I actually did like it. Maybe because it took little effort to make me happy back in the day

Nice movie, after reading this review I will surely watch it!

I love this movie. Its easy to hate on Sandler now, but Ive been a fan since he was on SNL.

This is his best comedy and its hugely quotable. I find myself quoting ot all the time, particulaly 'damn you people. Go back to your shantes.'

This is a very funny movie. The character Carl Weathers played always makes me laugh

Happy Gilmore is awesome but that's because I love Adam Sandler. Waterboy and Big Daddy are two of my other favorites with him.

Happy Gimore is a Sad Story. Just Kidding, It's Hilarious. The Best Movie of Adam Sandler's career and quite possibly the funniest movie of all time. This movie also has the best fight ever created and has some pretty memorable deaths. Way Better than "Caddyshack", and more memorable characters . This movie is the definition of Awesomness.!

Best Adam Sandler movie I've ever seen. Happy Gilmore was a hockey player who had several outbursts when he was a child and after living with his grandma he finds out from the irs that if his grandmother doesn't pay the loan in 3 months, they're selling the house. So Happy by accident figures out how to pay them money, and of course, it's golf. In an odd time it had some silly moments but most of this I found, absolutely funny. Those were the old days when Adam Sandler was really funny, unlike most of the movies that he's been producing, writing and performing, his movies like the Waterboy, Big Daddy, Little Nicky, Mr Deeds, Deuce Bigalow sequels (produced by Sandler for Rob Schneider), Chuck and Larry, Grown Ups sequel, Pixels and the Ridiculous Six were totally the worst. But Happy Gilmore and the Wedding Singer was the only time Adam Sandler was really funny.

it is copy and pasted from another site. about halfway down the page, someone named Trevor P on june 20th 2016 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/happy_gilmore/reviews/?page=3&type=user