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Happy Gilmore (1996)

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Happy Gilmore (1996)

Happy Gilmore (1996)
Audio: #1 Russian AC3 2.0 @ 224 Kbps; #2 English DTS 5.1 @ 1510 Kbps | Subs: Russian, English
720p BluRay | MKV | 01:31:55 | 1280x694 | 23.976 fps | H264 - 6430 Kbps | 5.24 GB
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport | USA

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Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen, Bob Barker, Frances Bay

English
Happy Gilmore is a rowdy boy, who was raised by his grandmother. He wants to be a hockey player but isn't because of one thing, he can't skate. When his grandmother's house is foreclosed cause of her failure to pay her taxes, and she's placed in a retirement home, Happy must try and find a way to make some money. One day while at a driving range, he discovers that he can hit a golf ball a hundred feet, so the range pro, convinces him to try being a pro golfer. Reluctant at first, because he considers himself a hockey player, but when he learns he can make a lot of money, he gives it a try and surprisingly, in addition to his amazing driving ability, his antics have made him the darling of the crowd. Shooter McGavin the tournament leader, thinks that Happy's an embarrassment and is jealous that he is stealing his spotlight, tries to get him thrown out or get him to quit.
Happy Gilmore (1996)

Russian
Гилмор с детства обожал хоккей, но, кроме пушечного удара, способностей у него к этой игре «настоящих мужчин» не было. Случай дал ему в руки клюшку для гольфа, и удар его был самым мощным за всю историю этого лужаечного вида спорта, который он так презирал. Но на одном презрении далеко не уедешь, а вот за победу в гольф платят большие деньги. И тут за дело берется профессиональный тренер по гольфу, которому придется весьма нелегко с дегенеративным «Cчастливчиком Гилмором…».
Happy Gilmore (1996)

Cranking down the man-child dial from an eleven to… oh, somewhere between a seven and an eight, Sandler dons an open-faced plaid button-up and steps into the boots of Happy Gilmore, a volatile hockey player who tries his high-sticking hand at professional golf in an effort to save his childhood home from foreclosure. Happy has a mean swing, a mean knack for sinking hole-in-ones, and an even meaner attitude, and soon becomes the go-to-golfer of the common man. Tour Commissioner Doug Thompson (Dennis Dugan, Grown Ups) isn't pleased with Happy's outbursts and on-the-course antics, but the attention the temperamental upstart brings to the tour and the sport leaves him desperate to take advantage of Happy's sudden star status. Before you can say love interest, Thompson tasks PR Director Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen, Modern Family) with taming Happy's rage and making him a more family friendly sportsman. However, it's a decision that doesn't sit too well with rival golfer Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald, Requiem for a Dream), an arrogant tour leader who sees Happy as a threat to golf, decency and, more than anything, a chance to win a coveted gold jacket. Shooter bends and breaks the rules, attacking Happy from all angles, even going so far as to push his way into Gilmore's personal life. With the help of one-armed ex-pro Chubbs Peterson (Carl Weathers, Predator), the love of Virginia, and the support of his sweet grandmother (Frances Bay, The Middle), Happy takes aim at Shooter's dominance and the tour's top spot.

Happy Gilmore (1996)

For some, Sandler's overgrown-boy schtick is like a mallet to the skull. If you're nodding your head, move on and don't look back. Happy Gilmore isn't going to leave you any less battered or bruised than the SNL castaway's other comedies. Happy isn't an easy-to-love golfer of the people, and subtlety has never really been Sandler's game of choice. (Punch Drunk Love and Reign Over Me notwithstanding.) Happy is perpetually teed off; a quirk Sandler, leaner and meaner himself, seems all too happy to tap into with every blowup, tantrum and flurry his penalty-box protagonist spits out on the golf course. I'll admit, after the sixty-eighth flareup or so, it does grow a tad tiresome. But something strange happened to me on the way to Happy's Tour: nostalgia washed over me. I was suddenly back in 1996, laughing at re-runs of early '90s SNL episodes when the series' self-proclaimed bad boys of comedy Sandler, Chris Farley and David Spade ruled Saturday nights with a sweaty fist. The same era that found SNL's bad boys launching a three-pronged assault on Hollywood. Memories poured in. I remembered coughing up soda in the theater in the middle of Billy Madison (a film that hasn't aged nearly as well as Happy Gilmore); I remembered declaring Tommy Boy the greatest comedy of all time (ah, the folly of youth); and I remembered shoving a copy of Happy Gilmore into my VCR more times than I care to admit. Most of all, I reconnected with the fondness I felt for Sandler and Happy in '96, the last official year of my childhood.

Happy Gilmore (1996)

I know, I know. "Are you going to actually review the movie?" My apologies. Happy Gilmore isn't smart comedy, but it is a whole lot of fun. (Happy's fistfight with Price is Right-host Bob Barker is worth the price of admission alone.) It lumbers across the screen rather than nimbly darting from joke to joke, but Sandler and his co-stars sink their chompers into each one. It telegraphs every punch it delivers, sure. But when it lands a haymaker, look out. Sandler not only shared screenwriting duties with Tim Herlihy, he made sure that each and every line that leaves a supporting character's mouth is a soft-pitch Happy can smash out of the park. Quotable quotes abound, one-liners are brash and brutal (insofar as PG-13 barbs can be) and, having not revisited the film in more than seven years, I quickly realized quite a few scenes are permanently etched into my brain. Granted, the glow of one's senior year in high school tends to crystallize otherwise inconsequential memories, but I'm not about to deny they exist or try to scrape them out of my mind. That said, Happy Gilmore shows its age and showcases then-thirty-year-old Adam Sandler's big-screen inexperience more than his promising qualities as an actor. I doubt Gilmore will win over many newcomers either, aside from those who already have tremendous affection for Sandler and are willing to overlook the side effects of his mid-90s growing pains.

Happy Gilmore (1996)

Ultimately, I feel ill-equipped to give Happy Gilmore the scorched-earth scrutiny it may very well deserve. I can't offer much insight into its shortcomings, just its personal appeal. Then again, maybe that speaks more to the film's charm than an academic analysis ever could. Happy Gilmore still makes me laugh. I couldn't ask for much more.

Reviewed by Kenneth Brown (blu-ray.com)
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