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

What do you think about this? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below.

*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

Happy Gilmore Movie: Why Characters Need To Die And How To Make Death Scenes Believable?

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

Happy Gilmore (#ad) is about an aspiring hockey player who finds that his talent lies elsewhere and who ends up playing golf for the sake of his grandmother.

Happy Gilmore = so funny that no words can describe it

Happy Gilmore is such a laugh-out-loud humorous film (seriously, you might just find yourself laughing at so many different parts of the movie) that it can be hard to believe that something seriously terrible and horrible could ever happen in said movie.

Who is Chubbs?

The storyline introduces us to this character named Chubbs Peterson (played by Carl Weathers) who is a former golf player. He was pretty well-known and he was a brilliant golf player, but he had to cut his career short thanks to having one of his hands bitten off by an alligator.

That’s bad and unfortunate, of course, but the movie manages to present this in a humorous and funny way that you can’t help but either smile or laugh or do both.

Funny scenes with Chubbs in Happy Gilmore

It seems almost like a joke, like this incident is just for comic relief purposes especially when we see scenes like having Chubbs’ fake wooden hand get run over by a car or having him shake hands (with the fake hand, of course) with the title character (Happy Gilmore) and having said wooden hand get broken, making it seem like his real fingers got damaged.

Is what happened to Chubbs a necessary evil?

As such, it can be easy to forget or simply overlook what happened to Chubbs. It’s too bad that he can’t play golf anymore, but he’s not the focus of this film and his main purpose seems to be to just teach Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler) how to play golf so what happened to his hand seems to be a necessary evil.

After all, if his hand hadn’t gotten bitten off by an alligator, he would undoubtedly still be busy playing golf and would thus have no time nor the interest to teach Happy about the sport or to even convince or talk Gilmore into playing said sport.

Death scene in a comedy movie! Who would have thought?

With all that said, who would have expected that Chubbs would actually die just because he’d already fulfilled his apparent purpose in the film?

When the death scene in question was actually happening, I thought this was yet another way to make the movie funny and to get the audience to laugh or smile. The scene didn’t even seem dark at all.

When Chubbs fell out of the window, I didn’t think he would actually die. It seemed like this was going to be played for laughs once more or that, even if he were to get badly injured, he’d just end up getting hospitalized and that he wouldn’t actually die.

Realism in Happy Gilmore

It’s really sad and seemingly unbelievable that he had to die especially since this film is supposed to be a comedy. And yet I thought that this added realism to the story and made it more believable.

I mean, if someone fell out of the window, they’d either die or get horribly injured. It’s also possible that Chubbs got a heart attack after seeing the head of that alligator.

So it makes sense that he died even if we’d rather that he was alive and well instead. What did you think of that death scene in the movie? Do you think it fits? Do you wish that Chubbs hadn’t died?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki based on the image by sinvia (CC:BY) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Chubbs falling out of a window since the figure in said image also looks as if she’s falling
- First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features the Happy Gilmore trailer

Happy Gilmore Movie: How To Prove You Love Your Grandmother?

(Warning for possible spoilers for the Happy Gilmore 1996 sports comedy movie, which is about this guy who starts playing golf for the sake of someone he cares about even though his passion is really to play hockey)

The Happy Gilmore (#ad) film may be a comedy (and it’s really quite hilarious and funny), but it also has a number of heartwarming moments. Those scenes may not make you shed buckets of tears, but that doesn’t make them any less touching.

Happy Gilmore really loves his grandmother

Since we got introduced to the title character, Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler), it was quickly established that he really loves and cares about his grandmother. This fact was quickly proven so many times during the course of the film.

We saw how upset Happy was when his grandmother’s things and house were taken away by the IRS, so much so that he even punched the guy that was telling him about this (admittedly, it does seem like he’s got some violent tendencies, but that still shows his love for his grandmother).

Happy even offered to let her stay at his place when she had to leave her house. He was reluctant to leave her at a nursing home.

He was even willing to pay extra money just to ensure that she was treated in the best way possible (not that that worked out too well, but let’s not get into that now). He was also very determined to acquire the money he needed in order to get back his grandma’s house.

And that was why he started playing golf even though he knew nothing about the sport and what he really wanted to do was play hockey. He even found the time to visit his grandmother at the nursing home.

What is love?

Is it playing a sport that you don’t even like for the sake of the one you care about? Or is it giving up playing a sport you’ve come to enjoy?

One of the really admirable things about Happy Gilmore and what really showed his love for his grandmother was how he was willing to give up playing golf just so he could get her house back.

By that point in the movie, he was already a bit into the sport and he was already dating Virginia, the main female character, who wanted him to stay in the golf tournament.

So it really said something with how Happy was willing to give up so much and sacrifice so much, all for the sake of his grandmother and seeing her well and happy. What do you think about this?


*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by mikanxsakura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Image is meant to represent Happy and his grandmother
- First pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features the Happy Gilmore movie trailer

Why The Death Scene In Happy Gilmore Movie Is Believable?

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

Also known as, "Why Chubbs will always be remembered?

Short synopsis of Happy Gilmore

Happy Gilmore (#ad) is about a guy who finds out that he is actually talented at playing golf. He ends up playing the sport, even though he wanted to be a hockey player, due to unforeseen circumstances.

If you’re dead, no one cares about you anymore

Sometimes, when you’re watching or reading something, don’t you feel that some characters end up being forgotten by the other characters?

For instance, if a character dies, other characters might mourn for a while, but they’ll soon move on and practically forget that this dead character previously existed.

This really makes it seem like said character died just because the plot demanded it or just to have something dramatic and unexpected happen or maybe even just to show that anyone can die in this show.

If the viewers or readers themselves end up forgetting those dead characters or don’t like those dead characters enough to care who thinks of them or what happens to them, then it’s not so bad to have the other characters forget this person because it won’t be noticeable.

But if that’s not the case at all, then the audience might wonder why the other characters have already forgotten about this dead character and they might think that whatever they’re watching or reading isn’t all that believable. This is why it’s worth noting how the Happy Gilmore film dealt with a dead character.

Who is Chubbs?

Chubbs Peterson (played by Carl Weathers) is a former golf player who had his hand bitten off by an alligator. Later on, when he saw the head of said alligator, he got so terrified and scared that he fell out of a window. He either died because of a heart attack or because of the window fall.

Chubbs’ purpose in the movie was to convince the protagonist, Happy Gilmore (played by Adam Sandler), to start playing golf and then to teach him how to properly play said sport. He died when his purpose was seemingly apparently already fulfilled.

Chubbs may be gone, but he’ll never be forgotten

However, even though he died, he wasn’t forgotten. I like how Happy didn’t forget about Chubbs even after the funeral. He talked of dedicating his playing at the golf tournament for Chubbs. When he was thinking about his happy place, Chubbs was a part of that.

Even at the very end of the movie, Chubbs was still present and that’s great because that prevented his death from feeling like a cop-out, like something that had to happen for the sake of a few moments of drama (in the form of the funeral scene) in a movie that’s supposed to be funny. What do you think about this?


*Notes:
- Pic is from Amazon.com; link shown above
- YouTube video features the trailer for the Happy Gilmore film