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.

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.

[Adam] Sandler vascillates between obnoxiousness and boyish charm and winds up winning plenty -- including the majority of audience members -- in the end.

there's still plenty of true immaturity to go around