Possibly the Funniest Movie Ever

Rating: 10/10 (8 February 2004)

Now I'm not one to throw around the "____est Movie Ever," but I'm not afraid to use it here. I don't judge movies on one large spectrum, like many people; I judge them according to what they are supposed to do. A war movie should appeal to my emotion on human life; acting is not necessary. A drama should have good acting and a story that matters and is conveyed well. (Hardest to pull off.) A comedy is just for entertainment. The acting can be hit or miss, the story should only exist to make funny stuff happen, and it should get funnier every time you see it. "Happy Gilmore" is like the word "wiener" in the sense that no matter how many times I'm exposed to it is still makes me smile, giggle, chuckle, or roll over crying.
Adam Sandler has a unique comic style. It is like a combination of Chris Farley and David Spade, two of the cast members he grew up with on Saturday Night Live. He can be the straight faced, sarcastic person Spade usually is, but he can also do excellent physical comedy and has an enormous amount of energy much like Farley. All this comes together in this movie to make the lead character funny just thinking about him. A hockey player playing golf that glides through life and flips out every once in a while... We've all wanted to be Happy once in our lives. (Whether the name or the adjective applies to you is irrelevant.)
The story is there only to make the funny happen. Gilmore is a failed hockey player and those scenes are awesome. He then meets an ex-golfer with one hand... Wonder why he's an EX-golfer? This is played into the whole "Old, seasoned pro teaches the upstart, reluctant newbie to defeat the bad guy and everyone lives happily ever after." But the story is not really important because it's a comedy and it's funny.
The dialogue is very good in this movie. There are so many little things that are said that you have to watch it over and over to catch it all. There are so many one-liners and classic scenes... This is by the number one movie I quote with my friends.
Comeos are also important in a comedy movie and this one has the greatest cameo of all time... Bob Barker. When you see the movie you'll see what I mean. This also plays into the irony that has to be in a comedy movie, but needs to by styled in a way that you can't see it coming and when it happens you let out a fast, unbelieving laugh and then forget about it... It's how these movies work.
All this comes together to make a movie that gets better the more and more you watch it. The movie exists to amuse and it does this better than any other movie in history. Some people may say that this movie is not the "Greatest Comedy Movie" because it's stupid and senseless... I just look at them and laugh because they don't know what comedy is. (See that was irony.)
There is no reason for you not to like this movie unless you look at it the same way you look at "Forrest Gump" or "Saving Private Ryan..." Don't, its not a drama or a war movie, it's a comedy movie... The best comedy movie ever for that matter.
NOTE: Watch the VHS or DVD because it is terribly censored when it is shown on TV and it really detracts from the over all mood of the movie.