Rotten
[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Happy Gilmore
He doesn't play golf... he destroys it.
1996 · 1h 32m · PG-13
Comedy
Directed by
Dennis Dugan
Overview
Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter McGavin — is determined to win a PGA tournament so he can save his granny's house with the prize money. Meanwhile, an attractive tour publicist tries to soften Happy's image.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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65%
Tomatometer
Rotten
There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.
Brian Lowry, Variety
Fresh
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.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
Rotten
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.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Happy's tantrums, which the movie pretends are liberating explosions of self-expression, aren't nearly maniacal enough to reach comic delirium.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
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