Anger Management
Cast
Jack Nicholson as Dr. Buddy Rydell
Adam Sandler as Dave Buznik
Marisa Tomei as Linda
Krista Allen as Stacy
Directed by
Peter Segal
Rater #2 has description and review.
Rater #1
8/10. I was watching this movie, and boy was it funny! On the funny scale, this ranked at the funniness of Old School. There were so many jokes that it was way too hard not to laugh.
Out of all of the Adam Sandler movies that I've seen which is probably 3ish, this one was the best. Many people were disagreeing with me by saying Billy Madison was better, but I've never seen Billy Madison. This was by far the best one. I was surprised that Jack Nicholson would go this low for a movie, but it didn't matter. He was hilarious! It was definitely different from his role in About Schmidt. Very different.
The thing about this movie was that there were many boob and dick jokes. That's kind of what the whole movie was centered around. Though it made for a very funny movie.
As Rater #2 says, there were many cameos. I only recoginzed a few, Bobby Knight, who was in "anger management" by accident, and he was supposed to be in Sexaholics. Most of the cameos were from New York, which made it rather funny.
All in all, this was a good movie. It's up there in funniness with Old School. Even though both got a 1 star, they're still very funny.
Rater #2
6/10. "I'm retarded," Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) tells Buddy Rydell (Jack
Nicholson), after Buddy tells Dave to retard his anger. Actually,
that can be used to describe the majority of the movie.
Dave is a mild-mannered businessman who is on a plane from a business
trip when he sits next to Buddy, who is cracking up at Tomcats. Dave
wants a headset, also, so he keeps on asking a flight attendant, who
mistakes what he's saying for an argument. For punishment, Judge
Daniels (the late, great Lynne Thigpen) sentences him to thirty days
of Buddy's anger management course. Guess what? Buddy is over the top
and insists on following him around, making Dave's life a living hell.
I wasn't really sure if I was looking forward to this movie, but I
see that I was, since I did see it. Although it wasn't as funny as
some of Sandler's other movies, especially Happy Gilmore, it had some
good sporadic laughs here and there, most of them big. Although some
times, it seemed really padded, especially with it being the second
recent movie to have "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story in it, the
first being Analyze That.
Anger Management had many cameos: Roger Clemens, Rudy Giuliani (who
uses the famous "You can do it" line), Heather Graham, Luiz Guzman,
Woody Harrelson, Kevin Nealon, John C. Reilly, and Harry Dean
Stanton. Most of them I could recognize, except Woody Harrelson,
since he was in drag (eww�rates as second worst movie going
experience of 2003 so far: first is Kathy Bates in About Schmidt).
The plot, well, there wasn't really much of one, but is there ever in
a Sandler film?
Sandler probably did his best acting to date (although I have not see
Punch-Drunk Love yet), proving himself to be out of the slob comedy
(which he hasn't done since Little Nicky). He may be able to go to
real comedy. Nicholson seemed to be having tons of fun in his role of
the aggressive doctor who needs the course in anger management.
Marisa Tomei, as Sandler's heartthrob, is wasted, of course, as is
John Turturro, someone else in the course. He was magnificent in Mr.
Deeds, but he didn't have much of a role in this one.
I've seen comparisons to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest from Anger
Management, which doesn't really make sense. Sure, they both deal
with mentality issues, but that's about it. One's an Oscar-winning
drama, and the other is, well, Sandler's farewell to what made him
famous.
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #5
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rated PG-13 on appeal for crude sexual content and language.
Running time: 106 minutes
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