Happy Gilmore
Happy Gilmore is a lousy would-be hockey player with one redeeming quality: he has a killer slapshot. When he discovers that the IRS is planning to seize his grandmother's home, Happy has no idea how to help her, until he discovers his amazing talent for golf.
14 October 1964, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
18 November 1953, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
7 April 1965, Belleville, Ontario, Canada
18 January 1964, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
24 May 1975, Ladner, British Columbia, Canada
April 22, 2007
From beginning to end, there's not a slow moment in "Happy Gilmore," the Tiger Woods of gleefully idiotic comedy.
June 18, 2002
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.
February 16, 2016
The comedy is never more than sudden, outsized explosions of violence from the otherwise placid, childlike Happy. But director Dugan maximizes the laughs through careful timing and counterpoint.
January 01, 2011
Adolescent humor at its best/worst. Lots of profanity.
April 15, 2008
There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.
April 15, 2008
Sandler's serious moments are dramatically deadly, while a little of his comedy goes a long way.
February 13, 2001
You don't feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happy's brutal anarchy more effective.
April 15, 2008
Fans of sport and brash, boisterous comedies will find a lot to love here.
June 24, 2006
Superior disposable comedy.
April 15, 2008
At the end of the day, it's exactly what most spectators would really love to see on the fairway.
August 26, 2013
there's still plenty of true immaturity to go around
April 15, 2008
[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.
