"Till The Night Closes In..........". Sandler at his best.

Rating: 7/10 (6 January 2005)

Golf, who would ever thought it would be funny at all. It is very easy to imagine what was going through the minds of Hollywood studio executives when someone said they have got an idea of a comedy which mainly involves golf. It is a narrow genre, however the last time such a movie has been made was Caddyshack. However since I have not seen it, Happy Gilmore is still going to be one of my favorite golf comedy movies.
PLOT SPOILERS The plot is really simple. This rubbish wanna be ice hockey player has this phenonomenal talent for whacking a golf ball for more than 500 yards. He decides to take up golf, only for the fact that he needs to get money to pay off his grandmother's debts and get her house back. He sets the golfing world alight and is seen as a new and unconventional hero of the green. His temperament and his amazing drives brings in rowdy crowds, which does bring the game to disrepute but the ratings seems to hitting the roof all the time. Everyone seem to like him apart from the current golf champion, Shooter McGavin, who seems to be jealous from this newcomers popularity. So Shooter decides to get Happy to play him for the championships.
This has to be Adam Sandler's best movie that he made. I thought that the Wedding Singer was his best, but that has to be given to this movie. He is so funny as Happy Gilmore, and I would have to say that the greatest scene, is when he starts singing Exile's song. It always cracks me up all the time I see that. The rest of the actors were OK, but to be honest this was Sandler's film. However, I would have to say Ben Stiller's cameo deserves another viewing, as he acted as the sadistic nursing home co worker. Julie Bowen does a moderate job as the love interest, and strangely enough looks like my old biology teacher, which is seriously weird but alluring nonetheless.
Anyway I absolutely love this movie, and I have to say that I am a convert to Adam Sandler. However this does not mean that I just only like really stupid movies, but he is a great comic.