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DVD The Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore Collection (Widescreen Special Edition)
Happy Gilmore Adam Sandler fans are sure to enjoy this no-brainer comedy, but everyone else is strongly advised to proceed with caution. Before scoring a more enjoyable hit with his 1998 comedy The Wedding Singer, the former Saturday Night Live goofball played Happy Gilmore, a hot-tempered guy whose dreams of hockey stardom elude him. But when he discovers his gift for driving golf balls hundreds of yards, he joins a pro tour to win the prize money needed to rescue his beloved grandma's home from IRS repossession. The trouble is, Happy's not so happy. He's got a temper that frequently flares on the golf course (he even dukes it out with celebrity golfer Bob Barker), but a retired golf pro (Carl Weathers) and a compassionate publicist (Julie Bowen) help him to perfect his putting game and adjust his confrontational attitude. How much you enjoy this lunacy depends on your tolerance for Sandler's loudmouthed schtick and a shocking number of blatant product-placement endorsements, but if you're looking for broad comedy you've come to the right teeoff spot. --Jeff Shannon Billy Madison For Adam Sandler fans only, this dopey comedy features the former Saturday Night Live star as an overindulged rich guy whose father insists he repeat grades 1 through 12 before taking over the family business. The scenario is perfect for Sandler's infantile leanings (which he has fortunately outgrown in more recent movies), and for the most part the jokes about being too old and too big for the experiment are obvious. Chris Farley and Steve Buscemi turn up in uncredited cameo appearances, but otherwise the film is pretty dismissible, except for those diehards who can't get enough of Sandler. --Tom Keogh
Review(s): DVD The Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore Collection (Widescreen Special Edition)
These would have been better as Extended Versions...
It's about time these came out! On one hand, I'm happy that my two personal favorite Adam Sandler movies have been re-released in widescreen and with plenty of deleted scenes and bonus features. On the other hand, the picture quality of the deleted sceens is not as good as the actual movie. Obviously the studios were being lazy and didn't enhance them. I also personally would have loved to see "extended versions" of these films on the DVDs. There are plenty of great deleted scenes that would have fit right in the film and made them better. Some of them are actually incorporated into the film if you watch them on TV. I was really hoping they'd at least add those scenes in.
All in all, these could have been done better...but they're still a huge upgrade from the original DVD releases. So if you're as big of a fan of these two movies as I am, go pick this up. It's worth the cash.
1/4 of the movies
these are some of the best movies of all time!
but some very important scenes were cut out of the movies.
Like in Happy Gillmore when Happy gets even with Ben Stiller,
Also in Billy Madison when Billy plays kickball.
These scenes were cut from this collection.
I reccomend buying the whole movie.
Adam Sandler package - Clean kid fun
My 10-year-old loved these movies when they aired on USA Network. He convinced me to purchase the set. I am not a huge Adam Sandler fan, but the comedy is relatively clean (even though the dirty magazine joke in Billy Madison was so lame, it breezed through my son's head).
I actually liked the outtakes for Billy Madison and enjoyed watching some deleted scenes that included an underused Norm Macdonald (he was quite delightful). You can't go wrong with the purchase. Not a laugh-out loud blockbuster, and don't expect academy award performances, but the young Adam Sandler-fan in your household will appreciate the sentiment.
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