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Happy Gilmore is a lousy would-be hockey player with one redeeming quality: he has a killer slapshot. When he discovers that the IRS is planning to seize his grandmother's home, Happy has no idea how to help her, until he discovers his amazing talent for golf.
You don't feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happy's brutal anarchy more effective.
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 fairly painless.
Adolescent humor at its best/worst. Lots of profanity.
January 01, 2011
New York Daily News
The comedy is never more than sudden, outsized explosions of violence from the otherwise placid, childlike Happy. But director Dugan maximizes the laughs through careful timing and counterpoint.