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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $13.95 You Save: $6.03 Features • Anamorphic • Color • Dolby • Subtitled • Widescreen In Theaters : 16 February, 1996 DVD Release : 13 June, 2006 |
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Happy Gilmore [HD DVD] description Adam Sandler fans are sure to enjoy this no-brainer comedy, but everyone else is strongly advised to proceed with caution. Before scoring a more enjoyable hit with his 1998 comedy The Wedding Singer, the former Saturday Night Live goofball played Happy Gilmore, a hot-tempered guy whose dreams of hockey stardom elude him. But when he discovers his gift for driving golf balls hundreds of yards, he joins a pro tour to win the prize money needed to rescue his beloved grandma's home from IRS repossession. The trouble is, Happy's not so happy. He's got a temper that frequently flares on the golf course (he even dukes it out with celebrity golfer Bob Barker), but a retired golf pro (Carl Weathers) and a compassionate publicist (Julie Bowen) help him to perfect his putting game and adjust his confrontational attitude. How much you enjoy this lunacy depends on your tolerance for Sandler's loudmouthed schtick and a shocking number of blatant product-placement endorsements, but if you're looking for broad comedy you've come to the right teeoff spot. --Jeff Shannon |
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| An avid golfer, I've always loved this Adam Sandler comedy, about a wannabe hockey-player named Happy who can't skate or handle the puck, but happens to have an amazing slap-shot. His grandma's house is about to be repossessed by the IRS unless she's able to come up with over $200,000 in two weeks. When the two moving guys lure Happy into demonstrating that he can drive a golf-ball over 400 yards, he learns that he has a talent for raising the required money to save his grandma from her predicament. When he's discovered on the driving range by a golf pro, Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers) who was chopped down in his prime by an alligator who bit his hand off, he realizes that he can win the required money on the pro tour, if only he can get his short game (and his temper) in order! He comes up against the tour kingpin, Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald in a hilarious performance that echoes his boorish husband to Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise), who is not thrilled about the prospect of losing to a "sideshow freak" and all hijinx ensues.
I never thought such a silly comedy could look so good! The Waterbury golf course's blue skies and green grass makes me long for a "quick nine". The lenses on the Panavision cameras produce an image that is sharp yet supple, and the film's grain is very fine, revealing every glint in the actors' eyes. Brief cameo appearances by golf legend Lee Travino, and character-actor Richard Kiel (Jaws of Roger Moore 007 James Bond fame) lending his strong presence here, bring added warmth and humor to the Shooter/Happy adversarial relationship. Highly recommended for anyone looking for gut-busting laughs! I look forward to completing my "golf triage" with the other fairway comedy classics, Caddyshack (already available on HD-DVD) and Tin Cup (at this point, only available on DVD). |
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