Happy joins a golf tournament to try and win enough money to buy back his grandmothers home. With his powerful driving skills and foulmouthed attitude, Happy becomes an unlikely golf hero.
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.
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.
Adolescent humor at its best/worst. Lots of profanity.
New York Daily News
February 16, 2016
The comedy is never more than sudden, outsized explosions of violence from the otherwise placid, childlike Happy. But director Dugan maximizes the laughs through careful timing and counterpoint.
