travel back to a time when Adam Sandler was something that seems unimaginable nowadays...funny

Rating: 9/10 (5 September 2005)

Adam Sandler is Happy Gilmore, a constantly rejecter hockey player wannabe. Due to way overly late unpaid taxes, his mom will lose the house that Happy grew up in. Gilmore has no clue how to raise the money, so he puts his grand mom in a nursing home overseen by a cruel orderly (an uncredited Ben Stiller). Later, back at his grandmothers house, he tries to get the movers to get back to work by out distancing them in golf strokes. When he finds out that he has an amazing golf swing and can get money for it he heads to the putting range to have people pay to watch him. This is where he first catches the eye of Chubbs Peterson (a hilarious Carl Weathers), who wants to enter Happy in some pro tournaments. Happy is hesitant at first, but his need for money wins over. However he has quite a temper, which leads to the pro golfer Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) to loathe him. But Gilmore has Julie Bowen as a love interest who tries to keep him cool. This is a hilarious Sandler vehicle from way back when he was still funny. It has a great many lines that you'll find yourself quoting with friends months afterwords, non-stop hilarity, and a very memorable fight with Bob Barker. What more can one ask for?
My Grade: A
Special Edition DVD Extras: 6 Deleted Scenes; 5 minutes of outtakes; Combo trailer for the "Dazed and Confused" & "Fast times at Ridgemont High" DVDs; and Trailers for "Chronicals of Riddick", and "the Bourne Supremacy