I was having a brain freeze today and could not come up with a suitable movie to review… until I read a blog form a friend. Happy Gilmore is one of the funniest movies involving one of the most boring sports imaginable: GOLF…. UGH!!!!. Adam Sandler is one of the funniest guys around. I abhor watching golf…. it is so quiet that that you are just dying to yell out “FIRE” or some other attention grabber. But this movie makes it hilarious. My favorite part of the whole movie has got to be when Happy is in a celebrity pro/am tournament. He was lucky enough to be paired with America’s favorite game show host: Bob Barker former star of The Price is Right. Happy’s day on the course does not go well. Bob makes the comment that Happy’s hockey playing could not be worse than his golf game. Then, the hilarity begins. Bob Barker gets into a knock-down, drag-out fight. When it seems that Happy is victorious, he exclaims: “The price is WRONG, B*%#H.” To which Bob goes into a fit of rage and gives his golf partner a good beating. After finishing Happy off, Bob returns the favor by saying: “now, you’ve had enough… b*$@h.” All those days Bob spent boxing in the service must have payed off because the fight actually resembled a choreographed boxing match. It was one of the highlights of the movie to watch the normally composed game show host lose his cool. Speaking of boxing matches, Happy’s golf mentor, Chubbs, was played by Carl Weathers who played Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies.
