Happy Gilmore

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.

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

There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.

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

Superior disposable comedy.

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.

Adam Sandler’s comedy Happy Gilmore is filled with problematic themes, but it’s plenty of fun, as well as a surprisingly insightful commentary on class.



Almost 30 years after its original release, Happy Gilmore still holds up as one of Adam Sandler’s better movies of his illustrious 1990s period.


Sports comedies can be a tricky genre to pull off but Happy Gilmore manages to hit it in the hole more often than not.

...holds up impressively well all these years later.