Ah, Adam Sandler, hated by critics everywhere and loved by the American audience. Say whatever you want about him but there's no denying that this guy makes some serious cash at the box office. Which makes me wonder why. In all honesty, he's not that funny of a comedian and he's definitely not that good of an actor. His characters are mostly just variations of the same chauvinist stereotype and that stuff gets old really quickly.
BUT, it's not that he's never made a good movie. In my humble opinion his best is without a doubt Happy Gilmore, one of my childhood favorites and together with Billy Madison one of the first successes of Sandler.
The story of Happy Gilmore isn't much more than warmed up sport film cliches about a failed hockey player who becomes a rowdy golf sensation. But what the film lacks in script is made up for by the clash of the fancy golf world with the redneck mentality of Sandler. Mash that with a great performance by Christopher MacDonald as the perfectly named villain Shooter McGavin and a hilarious cameo by Ben Stiller and you get a simple, funny and entertaining movie.
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