[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.
-Owen GleibermanFull Review
There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.
-Brian LowryFull Review
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.
-Edward GuthmannFull Review
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.
-Kevin ThomasFull Review
Happy's tantrums, which the movie pretends are liberating explosions of self-expression, aren't nearly maniacal enough to reach comic delirium.
-Stephen HoldenFull Review
Sandler plays this a lot smarter than, say, a Jim Carrey character, and with less slapstick. Still, this is not delicate, subtle stuff: It's smart low-brow, and only for those who like their humor a bit offbeat.
-Louis B. Parks