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1996
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Positive Reviews
17
Negative reviews
7
Average Rating
3.0
/5
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1.9
The Happy Gilmore character is strange. I guess we are supposed to like him.
Rogerebert
3.0
Adam Sandler is in one of his funniest roles as Happy Gilmore, a man with a hard, aggressive core and a surprisingly sweet center.
Common Sense Media
5.0
What saves a fairly routine plot is the combination of Sandlers generally underplayed wisenheimer mayhem and some deft cameos.
0.5
A lame, unoriginal comedy that may offer a few scattered chuckles, but more often than not, serves up a bewildering series of bizarre non jokes, suppo ..
1.3
Golf comedy is mostly hazardous HAPPY GILMORE is a way below par golfing comedy meant as a showcase for Adam Sandler, ex performer on Saturday Night L ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.1
It may smell awful from a distance, especially if you have low tolerance for lowbrow humor, but up close this yarn about an unlikely golf star is fair ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
The old guard want him out, but Happys increasing popularity proves too good to pass up.
3.8
Its a role that could have been written for any one of the anarcho adolescent comedy stars of the moment Jim Carrey, Pauly Shore, Chris Farley but in ..
Ny Daily News
4.0
It helps me go to sleep.Orderly: You can trouble me for a warm glass of shut the hell up!
JoBlo
2.5
Sandlers movie is worth a few laughs, but not many of the comic sequences are original, and even fewer are inspired.
ReelViews
1.9
In fact, the subtext of the violent humor throughout HAPPY GILMORE suggests class warfare comedy at its most vicious.
Tv Guide
3.8
The filmmakers behind Happy Gilmore dont find many surprises with this material and cant quite tie together Sandlers two sides, but its a fascinating ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
Sandler vehicle that holds up impressively well all these years later.
Reel Film Reviews
3.1
If you dont remember Subway and AT&T as you leave the theater, you slept through the film.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.1
Its just a minor little film that you forget until the next Adam Sandler flick comes along.
Internet Reviews
0.0
There are some funny moments to be had, such as a couple of good one liners and slapstick gags here and there, but for every one of those, there are a ..
Mr Brown Movies
4.0
The jokes are simple yet effective, and while the plot is admittedly predictable, the movie still scores points with its comedic charm.
Bullz-Eye
2.0
You dont feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happys brutal anarchy more effecti ..
Calendar Live
3.5
(PG 13) MOVIE: ***1/2 (out of 5) BLU RAY EXPERIENCE: ** (out of 5) BY KEVIN CARR Like Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore features Adam Sandler when he was y ..
7M Pictures
3.8
Its not quite Sandlers best film, but it still is a very fun movie.
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
Fans of sport and brash, boisterous comedies will find a lot to love here.
Film4
3.5
Sever those cerebral lobes, sit back, and enjoy a gleeful, energetically stupid comedy.
Net Flix
5.0
From beginning to end, theres not a slow moment in Happy Gilmore, the Tiger Woods of gleefully idiotic comedy.
Arizona Daily Star
4.5
Sandler vascillates between obnoxiousness and boyish charm and winds up winning plenty including the majority of audience members in the end.
Hartford Courant
1.5
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