The Guys Review

Happy Gilmore

Episode Summary

The Guys Review... Happy Gilmore. With the PGA Masters coming up, Tucker thought it would be a good time to review the classic, and career launching Adam Sandler film. Listen on and learn how irresponsible 3/4 of the Guys were this week, find out who actually did their home work, and discuss some of the most memorable moments from Happy Gilmore. Will this turn out to be an Eagle, or will the Guys give it a double bogy when The Guys Review... Happy Gilmore. Web: https://theguysreview.simplecast.com/ EM: theguysreviewpod@gmail.com IG: @TheGuysReviewPod TW: @The_GuysReview FB: https://facebook.com/TheGuysReviewPod/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYKXJhq9LbQ2VfR4K33kT9Q Please, Subscribe, rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts from!! Thank you, -The Guys

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Happy Gilmore

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Happy Gilmore

Written, Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler

Directed: Dennis Dugan

 

Starring:  

Adam Sandler

Christopher McDonald

Julie Bowen

Frances Bay

Carl Weathers

 

Released: Feb, 18 1996

 

Budget: $12,000,000M (estimated) ($21,699,120.46M in 2021)

 

Box Office: Opening weekend US & Canada $8,514,125M ($15,395,752.00 in 2022)

Worldwide: 41,205,099M ($74,509,533.89M in 2022)

 

Ratings:   IMDb 7.0/10 Rotten Tomatoes 61% 

Metacritic 31% Google Users 91% 

 

As requirement for mi Lord Tucker the Wanker second Earl of Wessex here are thine awards Sire

 

Kids' Choice Awards, USA 1997

Nominee

Blimp Award

Favorite Movie

 

MTV Movie + TV Awards 1996

Winner

MTV Movie Award

Best Fight

Adam Sandler

Bob Barker

 

Nominee

MTV Movie Award

Best Comedic Performance

Adam Sandler

 

Razzie Awards 1997

Nominee

Razzie Award

Worst Actor

Adam Sandler

For Bulletproof

 

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1996

Nominee

Stinker Award

Worst Actor

Adam Sandler

 

First time you saw the movie?

 

Plot:

 

 

Top Five Trivia of the movie: 

Top 5 Trivia

 

When Bob Barker was later asked to come on board with the project, he agreed to do so with two stipulations — that writers would re-work the scene to allow Barker to beat Gilmore in a fight … and that the “Price is Right” star could shoot his own fight scenes rather than have a body double. Barker had been training with his neighbor, Chuck Norris, and wanted to show off his skills.

Although Christopher McDonald has become synonymous with Shooter McGavin, he was not the first choice for the role. Producers were hoping that Kevin Costner would play the part but he was interested in making “Tin Cup.” McDonald almost turned down the role of McGavin as well because he was trying to break of the stereotype of playing villains. After meeting Adam Sandler and realizing how funny the film would be, he agreed to the role. McDonald has since said it was one of the very best moves of his career.

Happy was loosely based on a childhood friend of Sandler’s named Kyle McDonough. They grew up in Manchester, New Hampshire, and would sometimes play golf—but Sandler could never outdrive his buddy, which he attributed to McDonough’s extensive background playing hockey. McDonough went on to play in the East Coast Hockey League, the British Hockey League, and a league in Norway. He remains friends with Sandler to this day.

He's hard to recognize under all of that hair, but Otto the homeless caddy was none other than Allen Covert, Sandler's longtime friend and Happy Madison Productions collaborator who played the title role in the cult comedy Grandma's Boy ten years later. Covert's IMDb page is full of Sandler projects, starting with 1989's Going Overboard, followed by Airheads, Happy Gilmore, Bulletproof, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Never Been Kissed, Big Daddy, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, and on, and on...

The Happy Gilmore score was composed by the frontman for new wave art rockers Devo, who had huge hits in the early days of MTV with "Whip It" and their cover of The Rolling Stones "Satisfaction." Like Oingo Boingo's Danny Elfman, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh has found tremendous success as a composer, working on kid TV shows like Rugrats, the famous "Get a Mac" commercials, several Wes Anderson films, and more recently, 21 Jump Street, The Lego Movie, and one of our favorite scores, Thor: Ragnarok. Almost 20 years after Happy Gilmore, Mothersbaugh composed the music for Adam Sandler's Hotel Transylvania, at the urging of his then young kids.

 

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TOP 5

Stephen:

1 Breakfast club

2 T2

3 Sandlot

4 Back to the Future

5 Mail order brides

 

Chris:

1. sandlots

2. T2

3. trick r treat

4. rocky horror picture show

5. hubie halloween

 

Trey:

1) Boondocks Saints

2) Mail Order Brides

3) Tombstone

4) John Wick

5) She out of my league

 

 

Tucker:

1. T2

2: Tombstone

3: Gross Pointe Blank

4: My Cousin Vinny

5: John Wick

 

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