Happy Gilmour

Rating: 8/10 (21 December 2005)

Formula? Clearly Predictable? Yes. But if you don't watch this film without a permanent smile on your face, go get Bridget Jones. Everything works.........from the second shot knocking the woman out of the window to the kid getting hit by the baseball machine to Carl Withers with his arm (?) round the alligator. I would have a preferred a greasier (popular) anti-hero to play 'Shooter' but that may well have taken the point away from Stiller sending up the 'looser' movie. Being English, and a cricket fan, I can identify with Stillers legwork and arm swing in hitting the ball. It's a classic 'leg forward, bat following' technique. I wonder where he learnt that. And before anybody answers, I know the ball was CG.