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Happy Gilmore

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Happy Gilmore (1996)

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Reviews Counted: 49 Fresh: 28  Rotten:21 Average Rating: 5.5/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins

Synopsis: When Happy Gilmore, a would-be hockey player, hits a golf ball over 400 yards, he realizes that his true calling lies in that sport. So, to help his grandma regain her home from the IRS, he trades in his stick and puck for a 5-iron and a tee, and enters the PGA tour. To prepare for this new career,... When Happy Gilmore, a would-be hockey player, hits a golf ball over 400 yards, he realizes that his true calling lies in that sport. So, to help his grandma regain her home from the IRS, he trades in his stick and puck for a 5-iron and a tee, and enters the PGA tour. To prepare for this new career, Gilmore hires Chubbs, an ex-golf pro. Happy's "Generation X" status, and his wild, boisterous antics on the green, shake up the stuffy golf world -- particularly when groups of rowdy hockey fans show up at tournaments to cheer Happy on. This dismays Shooter, an arrogant pro who is exasperated with Happy... and will do anything to get rid of him. Can Happy elude Shooter's conspiratorial clutches? And if so, can he win enough money to save his grandma? [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Carl Weathers, Bob Barker

Director: Dennis Dugan
Screenwriter: Adam Sandler
Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh

DVD Info

Release:

Jan 6, 2007

[DVD Details]

HD-DVD Features:

  • Red HD Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Surround Sound Plus 5.1 - English, French
  • Dolby Digital Surround Sound Plus 2.0 - Spanish
  • Subtitles - English SDH, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurettes - 1. Deleted Scenes (6)
  • 2. Outtakes

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3.5/5

Fans of sport and brash, boisterous comedies will find a lot to love here.

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04/15/08
James Jennings
Channel 4 Film
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3/5

At the end of the day, it's exactly what most spectators would really love to see on the fairway.

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04/15/08
Darren Bignell
Empire Magazine
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Superior disposable comedy.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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D+

[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.

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04/15/08
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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1.5/4

Sandler's serious moments are dramatically deadly, while a little of his comedy goes a long way.

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04/15/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.

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04/15/08
Brian Lowry
Variety
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2/5

No review available.

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02/23/08
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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4/4

From beginning to end, there's not a slow moment in "Happy Gilmore," the Tiger Woods of gleefully idiotic comedy.

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04/22/07
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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8/10

This is a fun movie. I don't know how many times I've seen it now, but it never ceases to amuse me.

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06/24/06
JoBlo
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
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3/4

Happy Gilmore provides Sandler with a perfect outlet for his character.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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2/5

No review available.

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10/15/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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B

A bigtime guilty pleasure for me.

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09/12/05
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony
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0/4

Lame, unfunny stuff.

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09/10/05
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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3/5

No review available.

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07/14/05
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
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2/5

No review available.

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07/04/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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3/5

No review available.

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04/08/05
Fr. Chris Carpenter
Catholic Sun
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3/5

No review available.

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04/08/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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3/5

Sandler at his crazy, comical best....side-splitting stuff~

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03/23/05
Clint Morris
Moviehole
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2/5

No review available.

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01/31/05
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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0/5

No review available.

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11/22/04
John Esther
Pasadena Weekly
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