Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough money to buy back his grandmothers home. With his powerful driving skills and foulmouthed attitude, Happy becomes an unlikely golf hero.
17 July 1940, Duluth, Minnesota, USA
12 December 1923, Darrington, Washington, USA
3 March 1970, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
23 January 1919, Mannville, Alberta, Canada
16 August 1974, Digby, Bear River, Nova Scotia, Canada
13 November 1952, Vallejo, California, USA
30 November 1965, New York City, New York, USA
18 January 1964, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
30 December 1985, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9 September 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
August 26, 2013
there's still plenty of true immaturity to go aroundApril 15, 2008
There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.June 24, 2006
Superior disposable comedy.February 16, 2016
The comedy is never more than sudden, outsized explosions of violence from the otherwise placid, childlike Happy. But director Dugan maximizes the laughs through careful timing and counterpoint.June 18, 2002
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.April 15, 2008
Fans of sport and brash, boisterous comedies will find a lot to love here.April 15, 2008
At the end of the day, it's exactly what most spectators would really love to see on the fairway.April 15, 2008
Sandler's serious moments are dramatically deadly, while a little of his comedy goes a long way.January 01, 2011
Adolescent humor at its best/worst. Lots of profanity.April 22, 2007
From beginning to end, there's not a slow moment in "Happy Gilmore," the Tiger Woods of gleefully idiotic comedy.April 15, 2008
[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.February 13, 2001
You don't feel that Sandler and director Dennis Dugan are trying for the kind of subversiveness that might just make Happy's brutal anarchy more effective.