Happy Gilmore 1996 Sports Comedy Movie Review

This 1996 sports comedy movie is about a guy named Happy Gilmore (#ad) (played by Adam Sandler) who wants to be a hockey player. But he apparently has a talent for playing golf, and he ends up playing said sport due to some unforeseen and unexpected circumstances.

Extremely funny, laugh-out-loud movie

If there’s only one thing I can say about this film, it would be that it’s funny. It’s really very funny and humorous and that’s not an exaggeration at all. There are many scenes in this comedy that can really make you laugh out loud.

A notable mention would definitely be that part where Happy Gilmore tells a golf ball to go home and demands to know why said golf ball refused to follow his orders (trying to keep this spoiler-free, so the lack of details and explanations is intentional).

Heartwarming, touching scenes

While Happy Gilmore is a really fun and happy movie, it also has moments that can be quite touching such as the scenes that show the love of a grandmother and grandson for each other, and the things that a grandson is willing to do and sacrifice for the sake of his beloved grandmother.

Realistic movie

This movie even showed some realism like how the protagonist doesn’t instantly become good at playing golf overnight and doesn’t easily beat his opponents who have been playing golf for years.

Happy’s clearly got some talent at it, but he has to hone it and keep practicing and actually learn how to play the sport before he can hope to win and get first place.

Believable romance in Happy Gilmore

It’s also interesting to note how romance took a backseat in this film. There was some romance, but it wasn’t center-stage. The focus was really on the sport as well as the grandmother and grandson. This was fine though because it made the romance between the 2 characters seem believable. They didn’t get together right away.

It took a bit of time though it did still seem a bit fast, but, with the way the movie presented it, it could come across as the 2 characters in question still getting to know each other better since it wasn’t like they were getting married or declaring their undying love for each other and that added to the realistic aspect of the film.

All-in-all, Happy Gilmore is a very fun movie, and, if you want a laugh, a smile, and if you just want to be cheered up after a bad and stressful day, you can try watching this film and just enjoy yourself and allow the story to tickle you and make you laugh.

*Notes
-Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by hayashinomura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
-Image is meant to symbolize how funny and humorous Happy Gilmore is since the figure in said image is smiling happily
-First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
-YouTube video features the trailer for aforementioned film
-This was previously published elsewhere

Happy Gilmore 1996 Movie: Why Happy Didn’t Help His Grandmother?

(*Warning for possible spoilers for the Happy Gilmore 1996 sports comedy movie)

Happy Gilmore (#ad) is about an aspiring hockey player who actually ends up playing golf due to some unexpected and unforeseen circumstances.

If someone is threatening you, what should you do?

What is the right thing to do in such a situation? If you were given the chance or opportunity to do so, would you tell someone you love and trust that there is a person who is threatening you?

Happy Gilmore and his beloved grandmother

In the Happy Gilmore film, we get introduced to the title character who had to bring his grandmother (played by Frances Bay) to a nursing home because her house and things were taken from her by the IRS. Happy thought and expected that his grandmother would be treated well in that place and that no harm would come to her.

Unlikable character in Happy Gilmore

But the guy (named Hal L, played by Ben Stiller) who runs the nursing home is a despicable and horrible person who has no qualms mistreating the elderly people there and making them knit things for him so he could sell them and profit from them. In short, he’s completely, absolutely, totally horrid, and he really needs to pay for his evil deeds.

Why did Happy’s grandma listen to the threats?

Anyway, Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler) had no idea what was really going on in that place. When he visited his grandmother, she had the chance and opportunity to tell her grandson what was happening, but the guy who runs the nursing home was secretly threatening her so she wouldn’t say anything.

When that scene happened, I wondered why the grandmother didn’t tell Gilmore anyway even if the guy was threatening her. If it was just the 2 of them in her room, she could have the time to properly explain things to him and let him know what Hal was up to, and he wouldn’t be able to interfere since the grandmother and grandson were having a private conversation.

Happy Gilmore could have helped his grandma

As soon as Happy knew the truth, I was sure he would have taken her away from that place right away, and the guy would never have been able to carry out his threat to hurt her if she blabbed about what he was doing. So, it seemed that there wasn’t anything that could happen to her if she told Gilmore what was going on.

Would Happy Gilmore ever think that his grandma was lying to him?

Then, I considered that, perhaps, the grandmother thought that Happy wouldn’t believe her words or that the guy might be able to make it seem to Gilmore that she was just making things up because she was old or something like that.

I didn’t think Happy Gilmore would believe others over his own grandmother (especially since we saw how much he really cares about her and how much he loves her), but maybe that was just what the grandmother thought and that was why she didn’t tell her grandson what was happening.

I still wish that she had though so she didn’t have to stay in that horrid place for a moment longer and so the other old people there could be saved from Hal and so that he could be held accountable for his despicable actions.

What do you think? Could this particular scene in the movie be done differently? Was it right and believable for Happy’s grandma not to tell him what was going on even though she had the chance to do so?

*Notes:
-Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by CoDLia (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
-Image is meant to symbolize what one can do when they are being threatened – try to fight back and don’t be silent
-First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
-YouTube video features the Happy Gilmore film trailer
-This was previously published elsewhere

1 Reason To Dislike Happy Gilmore 1996 Movie

(*Warning for possible spoilers for the 1996 Happy Gilmore sports comedy movie)

Happy Gilmore (#ad) is about a guy who finds he’s got some talent at playing golf and ends up playing said sport for the sake of his grandmother.

Villains should pay for their crimes

In a film you’re watching or in a book that you’re reading, when someone does something bad, or when you see or read about the antagonists hurting the protagonists and doing all sorts of evil and horrible things and committing all manner of crimes and the like, don’t you want these villains to get their comeuppance, their retribution?

Don’t you want these people to pay for their crimes and misdeeds? Don’t you want the heroes of the story to be able to defeat these characters or send them to prison or something? The same thing can be said in the Happy Gilmore movie.

The bad guy in Happy Gilmore

When we got introduced to the guy (named Hal L, played by Ben Stiller) who runs the nursing home where the main character, Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler), had to take his grandmother (played by Frances Bay) to and when we found out exactly what this guy was up to, what did you feel?

Did you start hating on this guy who was clearly doing something wrong and illegal? Did you want him to pay for his crimes and get punished for his wrongdoings? Who wouldn’t be displeased and annoyed and miffed at what this guy was doing to the old people in that nursing home?

What Happy Gillmore should have done to the antagonist?

Honestly, I thought Happy would eventually end up beating this guy up or something especially since Gilmore did seem to have some violent tendencies (we all saw how he tended to punch people and get into fights with them). If nothing else, I thought that Hal would at least get in some sort of trouble because of what he was doing.

Not all the villains in Happy Gilmore are punished for their mistakes

Unfortunately, nothing of the sort happened. It was really great when Happy Gilmore was able to take his grandma away from that nursing home, but I really didn’t like how the guy who ran that place didn’t get any retribution or comeuppance for all the things that he did.

He’s despicable, and he should have been imprisoned or something because of what he did. I don’t get why the film just let that part go. Shooter McGavin (played by Christopher McDonald) got his comeuppance for the things that he did, but why didn’t Hal get anything at all?

It was infuriating to think that he was still running the nursing home and was still mistreating the elderly there. What about those old people? Why couldn’t they at least have been saved from him like how Happy's grandma was saved?

Your thoughts and opinions

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*Notes:
-Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by Rusembell (CC:BY) from deviantArt
-Image was chosen because the figure looks as if she’s going to avenge someone or make the bad guys pay for their crimes
-First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
-YouTube video features the Happy Gilmore film trailer
-This was previously published elsewhere