Happy Gilmore Critic Reviews
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Slap Happy. [16 February 1996, p.D4]Read the full review
It may smell awful from a distance, especially if you have low tolerance for lowbrow humor, but up close this yarn about an unlikely golf star is fairly painless.Read the full review
Several strokes short of a respectable finish.Read the full review
A genial and surprisingly self-contained performance by Adam Sandler.Read the full review
The result is a movie that's hard to laugh at when its hero would surely be either in jail or perhaps even a mental institution were he to behave the way he does on screen in real life.Read the full review
Tells the story of a violent sociopath. Since it's about golf, that makes it a comedy.Read the full review
Adam Sandler stars in a one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.Read the full review
Doesn't deliver.Read the full review
Added together, there are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer, leaving a sometimes painfully unfunny 90 minutes with which to contend.Read the full review
