Happy With Sandler.

Rating: 6/10 (12 May 2015)

Happy Gilmore (1996): Dir: Dennis Dugan / Cast: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Carl Weathers, Christopher McDonald, Bob Barker: Not nearly as funny as Caddyshack, which worked due to its views of golf stereotypes. A name like Happy Gilmore indicates that he was the apple of his grandmother's eye but it never sustained his inner torment. He plays bad hockey but when his grandmother is forced into a nursing home by the I.R.S he promises to win her home back but he does so through golf. Carl Weathers coaches him then he feuds with champion Shooter McGaven. The idea of one's talent translating to unfamiliar places works as a plot but much of this is repetitious, predictable and stupid. Directed by Dennis Dugan who brought the world Problem Child. There are moments of visual flare but much of the humour is obnoxious. Nonetheless some viewers may relate to Adam Sandler as Gilmore whose willingness to help his grandmother is met with the struggle to maintain one's temper. Julie Bowen is basically a romantic prop to be won over. Christopher McDonald as Shooter is the high class antagonist. Weathers holds strong as a coach with a wooden hand due too an attack by an alligator. Bob Barker appears long enough to have a golf confrontation with Happy and beat the snot out of him. This is certainly no Caddyshack but it would be a great candidate for several cracks with a golf club. Score: 6 ½ / 10