A friend told me about this one, and I’m glad he did. This movie stars Adam Sandler (surprise!) and Jack Nicholson. Sandler plays an emotionally-challenged man (Dave) trying to get his life together, and Nicholson plays his therapist (Buddy). Dave is forced to go to anger management after he “freaks out” on an airplane. Buddy volunteers his help and a court decides that Buddy is to help Dave with his anger. Buddy promptly invades Dave’s home and follows him every second of every day. This upsets Dave to begin with, and Buddy goes out of his way to make sure that Dave is never comfortable. A lot of things go wrong for Dave until they don’t anymore, (because obviously we need a happy ending) and it turns out the entire thing was actually a great thing and Dave learns a lot.
The story here isn’t really a highlight, but it’s good enough to set-up some solid comedy. Now, I don’t want to confuse anybody. This is still a stupid movie. For example, Buddy brings Dave to a monastery and he ends up beating up a monk while Buddy shoots them with his water gun. It sounds dumb, and it is dumb, but if you’re into that, (and I am) it will make you laugh. The entire movie is scene after scene like that, and it honestly has some great moments.
At the end of the day, this is a solid comedy. It’s not going to make you want to watch it over and over, but the moments that are there are memorable enough to make this worth watching.
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