The Reel Rejects - HAPPY GILMORE (1996) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:25 That was fun. It was a fun. And you know what else is fun, gang? Leaving a five-star rating if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify. That's one of the most fun things you could do. Wow. Wow, Peacock. You don't even let us enjoy the credits.

Starting point is 00:01:45 Jeez. That's another one I've never seen. Oh, my goodness. Oh, Ricky Bubby. Ricka Lovie. Let Greg know. Rickulis Bobius. Well, gang, that was fun.

Starting point is 00:01:57 But let's get down to be. brass tackles. Talk about this movie. Talk about this bang. What'd you think, man. What'd you think? Oh, man. Oh, man. I thought it was a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to get to see Adam Sandler in his prime. You know, get to see this old golf comedy about this, this hockey player who wants to not be a hockey player, who wants to be a hockey player who wants to play some bang golf. I got it out. You got words. Do we watch the same movie? We watched the same movie. He play hockey.

Starting point is 00:02:30 Bad at hockey. Play golf now. When at golf, get Grandma House back. You should be the guy who writes all of the synopsies on like, you know, when you pull it up on the streamer and it's like, oh, here's a little breakdown. I said, yep, I'm going to write all of them in Caveman. You know, it's like the, it's like the ones for Rick and Morty are like that. They're just like, y'all, bro, this episode, bro. It's what it is.

Starting point is 00:02:52 They do some crazy stuff this time, bro. We got some stuff going on. Yeah, that's just all the descriptions are. but yes I thought it was a lot of fun you know it was it was simple it was 90s you know

Starting point is 00:03:07 like I understand like why this is a classic movie it was really funny like even though it came out in what 96 the comedy still holds up well for the most part and yeah just the constant gag with

Starting point is 00:03:19 with Carl Weathers and and the just there's a lot it was really funny seeing him and his prime Yeah, man, that's my thoughts as I'm processing and formulating. What do you think of the movie?

Starting point is 00:03:32 No, I agree. I mean, because this, I want to say we watched That's My Boy pretty recently, and then Tara and I also watched The Water Boy, and this definitely reminded me of the Water Boy in the sense of like,

Starting point is 00:03:48 this seems like the sort of Adam Sandler template for this era in time. It's like, okay, it's a vaguely sort of sport-related thing. Not to say they were all that, but certainly Adam Sandler has like a vested interest in sports. And then, yeah, you have like underdog

Starting point is 00:04:04 with quirky, you know, qualities for one reason or another who's going to be mentored by like a veteran actor in Waterboy. It's Henry Winkler. Here it's Carl Weather's. And, you know, like there's a family element of some kind he's, you know,

Starting point is 00:04:20 either up against or trying to play four in some capacity. It's relatable in that way. There are a lot of like, it's fun to see what the tropes of the proto Adam Sandler movie are and yeah just like this i mean i associate adam sandler with a certain amount of like uh you know crude and um i don't know what you would call it you know like insult esk humor certainly and this was sort of a little less uh down that path exactly this was more committed just sort of to the conceit of what if hockey

Starting point is 00:04:55 player but golf and yeah like it's got all the straightforward elements that you would expect from a movie like this just yeah with his Adam Sandlery flavor and even though again like I didn't grow up with Adam Sandler in a huge way and I prefer the kinds of roles where he is

Starting point is 00:05:11 more directly committed to a character like this was nice because like Waterboy is very much he's playing mannerisms and there is like a full on character there whereas this is more like Adam Sandler kind of being what I associate

Starting point is 00:05:27 with his vibe and energy more in a general sense. But I will say that while sometimes I'm not as drawn towards the ones where I'm like oh Adam Sandler is just kind of like playing wisecracking Adam Sandler. It's playing himself in a sense, just like a heightened version of

Starting point is 00:05:43 himself rather than playing like a character. Yeah, and that's, and he feels like he's kind of playing a heightened version of himself here, but I think it worked really nicely and I really enjoyed this and I like that you know, I mean, For my personal taste, I'm like, you know, you kept the sort of frat boyishness to a minimum. It's endearing that he's playing for his grandma, trying to get the house back and stuff like that. And there are enough, like, extra, you know, peripheral hijinks that are happening.

Starting point is 00:06:10 But it's not as, like, insane as it could be. And I think that's kind of a nice thing. Like, this had the right amount of focus, because especially as, like, comedies have grown. And these sports-based comedies, like, Peacock is throwing us Talladega Nights to watch right after this. And certainly that was sort of like the decade later iteration of the sports comedy with a whole different, you know, kind of energy behind it. But something about those movies that I didn't feel as much with this movie. And I like Talladega Nights, certainly. But, you know, like that's from that Judapitau era where you have, you know, more heavy emphasis on improv and you have these movies that'll be a bit more loose and a little less tightly edited.

Starting point is 00:06:49 And here it was like you can see these, again, sort of proto, uh, truels. tropes of the Adam Sandler movie, like with Joe Flaherty popping up in a role that I assume Rob Schneider would eventually be the kind of go-to person to have, you know, the dude popping up out of the woods. Not going, you can do it. He's sabotaging him here. But, you know, like there are fun little nuggets and things. And yeah, like the way his movies approach casting and the way they approach, like, having the romantic interest. And even here, like, you know, it's obviously you can roll your eyes at the fantasy of like, oh, she's in lingerie out on the lawn with jugs.

Starting point is 00:07:24 of beer, but it's also like it's so silly and it's obviously kind of knowing what it is in that regard in a way that, yeah, at least feels self-aware and thus, you know, picks up an extra kind of layer of humorousness for me. So yeah, you know, for what this was, I had quite a, quite a good time. And, you know, being again somebody who wasn't, you know, I, there are aspects of Adam Sandler's flavor that I am not always gravitated to and am sometimes repelled by. And this didn't really have that, which was nice, you know, which I didn't expect it to or anything like that. But, yeah, this was a lot of fun. All right, Reject Nation, so today I want to share something with you that has been a wonderful addition to my health and fitness journey that I discovered during the holidays.

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Starting point is 00:09:46 in the year 2024. Yeah, yeah. I also like the golf shots, you know, every time the ball would go and like that thing they did with the camera, that that was really cool. Yeah. Yeah, had some very memorable moments,

Starting point is 00:09:58 like that Bob Barker fight was hilarious. That's probably the funniest thing in the movie for me. Just everything with Carl, Carl Weathers and his hand was hilarious. And yeah, you know, like there's the love interest,

Starting point is 00:10:12 which is like obligatory for a movie like this, but like, you know, inexplicably is just drawn to and likes him. Right. And it's just enough like, how unhinged he is. Like you get it.

Starting point is 00:10:23 because like oh this guy's a breath of fresh air you know from the status quo but also it is like you know from the second they meet she's just like drinking him in and these you know such endearing smiles and things like that and but you know I guess here it it makes

Starting point is 00:10:39 a little more sense because he's still a young buck a young buckaroo and you know yeah you get your some of your fun like comedy cameos like you get Kevin Nealon and you get Ben Stiller in a small part which I was expected I was shocked yeah I was expecting maybe some kind of greater retribution on that character. And that was a thing that surprised

Starting point is 00:10:58 me here was like, oh, the winning back the house, you know, I just didn't expect them to structure it the way that they did where instead of it just being like, oh, we need to win the final championship in time to get the money. It's, you know, having Shooter McGavin step in and buy the house, you know, it was like the stakes of the third act. I thought it was a good way to in real time answer that question of like, okay, well, who? You know, like, you know, we got the money. When they're doing the auction, I was like, oh, dang, I didn't expect this to start happening here. It's the second movie we watched together where Adam Sandlin needs to make some money.

Starting point is 00:11:33 Yeah. Yeah, no, exactly. Like, there is like a formula to these things. And it is interesting to see how it warps. And, and, yeah, like movies like this were part of the charm is, you know, roughly who the troop is going to be and roughly what the sensibility is going to be. And now it's just like, what character is going to emerge from this and what sport or. or, you know, just niche interest, are they going to make the focus

Starting point is 00:11:57 to give this thing the flavor? So, yeah, like, you know, and that does remind me of the earlier phase in comedy of what would later become, you know, like that Judd-Apettel era of like, here's an anchor man, here's a Talladega Knights, here's a semi-pro, here's a kicking and screaming, you know, just like, yeah,

Starting point is 00:12:17 how can we sort of modularly plug these talents into, you know, various little bubbles of culture. This movie walked to those movies could run. Sure. Oh, yeah. I mean, this movie definitely laid down the groundwork and then those movies expanded on it. But yeah, you know, and then you had Will Sassau in there.

Starting point is 00:12:37 DJ Jackson is that guy's name. I know I've seen him and stuff. So, yeah, like a lot of fun, just, yeah, like little cameos and appearances and things like that. And I did appreciate how they... Peacock today, man. Move right, move on. Move on, watch something else.

Starting point is 00:12:52 Go, go, go. But yeah, I like, too, that they put, like, they committed to the filming of the golf stuff, you know, in both respects, in ways that remind me of the brief moments in life where I've caught golf broadcasts and those kinds of shots of the ball and everything. But then also ramping that up with his unique style

Starting point is 00:13:12 and approach and the way they shoot that with his sort of hockey-infused version of this of, you know, like, okay, we're going to go into ball vision and every time he takes the big swing, we're going to do some sort of kinetic shot, you know. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. This was straightforward in a lot of ways. It's sort of the movie I was expecting.

Starting point is 00:13:31 But, yeah, I thought it was charming. And I thought it was well assembled, well orchestrated for what it is, you know, for the most part. Yeah, it was a nice solid little 7 out of 10 for me. I dug it. Sure, sure. What did you guys rate it? Leave your thoughts down below. And, yeah, thank you for.

Starting point is 00:13:48 watching this video thank you for commenting thank you for being along with the journey and hey if you want to see another adam stanler classic uh you know i'm sure there are a few others that we still haven't seen so leave those down in the comments as well we appreciate you very much and uh hey we'll catch you next time much love be well

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The Reel Rejects - HAPPY GILMORE (1996) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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