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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783219103
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0783219105
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: May 27, 1997
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 15980
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: February 16, 1996
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Heavy-metal golf with Adam Sandler, a 1996 dry run of the wild-man-athlete formula that paid off so handsomely in The Waterboy. There are some irresistibly funny sequences, although you may hate yourself for laughing at the mean-spirited slapstick. This isn't a classic golf comedy, like the Bill Murray vehicle Caddyshack, but as a hot-tempered would- be hockey player who finds an unexpected métier as a power golfer, Sandler has a short-fuse shtick that's effectively deployed. He's like a punk rocker gleefully out of his element, puncturing the country-club atmosphere by using the fairway as a private mosh pit. The action gets repetitive beyond the midpoint, and a subplot involving Gilmore's lovable grandma and her problems with the IRS is dismayingly sappy. Sandler's iconoclasm is mostly window dressing; there's no conceptual or satirical daring in his kind of 'outrageousness.' The strong supporting cast includes Christopher McDonald as Gilmore's smug rival on the links, Julie Bowen as a perky publicist, and, in a memorable bout of fisticuffs with our hero, game-show host Bob Barker. Director Dennis Dugan (Problem Child) himself plays Doug Thompson, the golf-tour supervisor. --David Chute
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best golf comedy
This is seriously the funniest golf movie I have seen. Adam Sandler is hilarious! There are a couple of corney parts but Sandler's lines are great. I highly recommend this to anyone who loves comedy and/or golf.
Rating:  - really funny movie one of adam sandlers best
I loved this movie and the acting was solid very funny and I would totally recomend this to any Adam sandler fan.
Rating: - It even makes you laugh if you play in French with English subtitles
Just saw it. True...not much in the way of bonus features.
But after you watch it once (or more) in English. It's kind of a kick to then watch in French with English subtitles.
(You can make that selection under LANGUAGE (You can select FRENCH for language and then ENGLISH subtitles.).
The reason I find it especially fun is because it really gets me the way the movie critics are so snobby about Sandler...yet some of the same themes are found in foreign films. When ... Read More
Rating: - Better Than I Thought
Happy Gilmore looks great in HD. It definitely has vivid colors that pop off the screen. Some high def movies have similar video quality to the DVD version, but this isn't one of them. I highly recommend getting this.
Rating: - Funny and disgusting
I didn't get this movie the first time I saw it. The second time I was in hysterics. One day it was on TV while my mom was visiting. The scene where the Asian lady comes into the room in Happy's shirt both disgusted and cracked my mom up. I couldn't stop laughing at her reaction. It's making me laugh now. Thanks Happy!
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