---------------------Part One of the 2008 wave of movie reviews------------------------
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Happy Gilmore is an Adam Sandler film, in which he writes his own starring role as Happy (Probably not his real name, but everyone calls him that) Gilmore, an aspiring hockey player with no skating ability and a hot temper. He tries out every year for the hockey team to no avail. His girlfreind dumps him, branding him a loser and perfect protaganist for an underdog sports movie. Happy then moves in to live with his grandmother again for the first time since his father was killed by a stray hockey puck. His grandmother tries to cheer him up by wearing KISS mask. If my grandma dressed up as a member of a metal band that was notorious for heavy makeup, I would be traumatized. Anyways, on to the story. Happy lives with his grandmother, and things seem to be going pretty well until the IRS comes to repossess granny's home. Evidently, she owed them almost $300,000 in back taxes. This leads to Happy wondering how he can possibly pay back the money, until he wins $60 from the movers after he hits a golf ball through a house window, on the owner's head, and on the owner's wife's head. The rest of the movie is fairly typical inspirational movie-type stuff. Happy meets an old golf pro who lost his hand to a croc, then acts as a mentor to Happy, teaching him the basics of golf. Happy then enters several golf tournaments, where he struggles against the pros, mostly because, although he can land a great drive, Happy cannot putt for sh*t. During this eaerly period of golfing, Happy also meets his romantic love interest, a journalist who is covering the tournaments, and his arch nemesis, a pro golfer who has never been able to win a tournament and goes by the name "Shooter". Shooter (I will call him by his nickname because I cannot remember his actual name, I think his last name was McGee...hmm.....) is made fun of by his fellow golf pros, as Shooter, having not won a tournament, doesn't have a gold blazer like the rest of them. With Happy beginning to get better and better at the game, Shooter begins to take extreme measures to keep Happy from winning, and to secure his own gold blazer. For example, Shooter hires a guy simply to yell things at Happy while he shoots, prompting Happy to go berserk, attacking the first person he sees: Bob Barker. The movie is almost worth seeing for the fight scene between Adam Sandler and Bob Barker alone. After the incident, Happy realizes he must find his "happy place" to keep his anger under control, and does training at a mini-golf course, although his anger causes him to destroy a clown face. Hey, I would have smashed that clown too, it was creeping me out. A short time later, Happy inadvertently kills his mentor, but he gets the money to pay for the house. All seems well for a fade-out, but Shooter, pissed that Happy is taking his publicity, buys Happy's house at the auction. Shooter then challenges Happy to a tournament to decide who keeps the house. Happy agrees to this, although he is mentor-less and wracked with guilt. Cue climactic showdown. The only really notable part of what happens next is that the same guy who yelled at Happy is hired to run him over in a car, which he does, but then the guy crashes into the commentator's tower. Happy is left with a few fractured bones, limiting his driving skills. At the last hole, Happy must find a way to get the ball past the crashed tower and into the hole in one shot to beat shooter and avoid sudden-death. At this point I was expecting a tie and sudden-death, as it nearly always happens in sports movies, but Happy utilizes his mini-golf skills and lands a goldbergian shot, landing the ball in the hoole and winning the tournament, and his house, back. The End.
Overall, the movie was a mix of Dodgeball and The Comebacks. It had the unexpectedness and novelty of Dodgeball, but had some jokes that were as dumb as the ones in The Comebacks. Overall, it was an enjoyable film, especially the bit with the alligator.
Rating:
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Yes, I know that rating system made no sense. That was the point.
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