Critic Reviews
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USA Today
Slap Happy. [16 February 1996, p.D4]
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Empire
Darren Bignell
The real surprise is that it's a lot of fun, with Sandler becoming more personable as the film progresses, and a couple of truly side-splitting scenes.
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Washington Post
Richard Harrington
A genial and surprisingly self-contained performance by Adam Sandler.
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Christian Science Monitor
Adam Sandler is funny as the volatile hero, and the screenplay is just abrasive enough to keep the story surprising.
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ReelViews
Several strokes short of a respectable finish.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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Los Angeles Times
The result is a movie that's hard to laugh at when its hero would surely be either in jail or perhaps even a mental institution were he to behave the way he does on screen in real life.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Tells the story of a violent sociopath. Since it's about golf, that makes it a comedy.
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Entertainment Weekly
Adam Sandler stars in a one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.
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TV Guide
Staff (Not credited)
Sorry excuse for a comedy.
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The New York Times
Doesn't deliver.
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San Francisco Examiner
A way-below-par golfing comedy.
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Austin Chronicle
Joey O'Bryan
A lame, unoriginal comedy.
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Variety
Added together, there are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer, leaving a sometimes painfully unfunny 90 minutes with which to contend.
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