Steineded How sad is this?

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Paul J. Nemecek I wished that I had learned something about anger management while watching the film by that name. By the end of the film I was almost angry that I had shelled out six dollars on such a terribly bad film. The previews looked like there was some potential here, and I suppose in the basic premise there was some miniscule amount of potential. Alas, the film did not enough live up to the potential hinted at in the previews.Anger Management stars Adam Sandler as someone who spends most of his time expressing the passive side of a passive/aggressive personality. While on an airplane ride his behaviors are misinterpreted as aggressive and he finds himself facing assault charges in criminal court. What starts out as a huge misunderstanding turns into a sentence of anger management therapy.Enter anger management guru, Buddy Rydell, as played by Jack Nicholson. Frankly, the whole idea of Jack Nicholson as an anger management therapist is pretty funny in and of itself. If you've seen Nicholson going ballistic in Five Easy Pieces, bellowing "here's Johnny" in The Shining, snarling "you can't handle the truth" in A Few Good Men, or taking over the asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest you know what I'm talking about. Alas, the idea is funnier than the realization, and in the end Nicholson is a great talented wasted on a mediocre story.There are a few bright spots in the film, the best of which is Marisa Tomei as Adam Sandler's girlfriend. I saw part of My Cousin Vinny again recently, and found myself thinking that she actually deserved the Oscar she got for her role in that film. She is a gifted actress and she lights up the screen in almost every scene she is in here. Unfortunately, those scenes are too few to salvage the uninspired story. John Turturro has a few good scenes as a psychopath and John C. Reilly has a few inspired moments as a backyard-bully turned Buddhist monk. In the end these few inspired scenes make for enough good material for a not-so-terrible episode of a thirty-minute sitcom (allowing 12 minutes for commercials). There are also a few funny cameos of real-life celebs in the movie, but collectively they fill about two minutes of screen time. The rest of the time is filled with prepubescent humor and stale sight gags stretched way too thin to carry the film across the finish line.My advice is to find someone with some editing equipment and splice together your own clips from films by Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler (think Waterboy meets A Few Good Men). You'll have more fun and the end result couldn't possibly be any worse than this.

zkonedog When making a movie, the producers/directors must first and foremost determine what type of project they are creating. In the case of "Anger Management", director Peter Segal tries to weave some semblance of emotion into the ridiculous plot of his film...and fails miserably in the effort.For a basic plot summary, "Anger Management" sees young, mild-mannered businessman David Buznik (Adam Sandler) being treated as the company peon despite all his hard work and career aspirations. With some prodding from girlfriend Linda (Marisa Tomei) and a series of crazy events, Buznik begins seeing Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), an anger management therapist specializing in some rather unorthodox "treatments".The main problem with this movie is that one must simply face facts: it just isn't all that funny. Sandler makes a couple of his trademark wisecracks that might elicit a chuckle here and there, but Nicholson is completely wasted in a terribly annoying role. For being billed as a "comedy", the laughs are few and far between.What makes it a truly abysmal effort, though, is the fact that the producers had the gall to try and make it "mean something" towards the end. A movie this ridiculous (with characters so over- the-top as to be almost cartoonish at times) in premise cannot make the sudden switch to emotional without coming off as laughable (exactly what happens here).Overall, "Anger Management" was one of the most disappointing films I've seen in quite awhile. I was expecting some laughs and some great cast chemistry, but received instead a mess of a film that tries to "pull itself together" in the end but only ends up embarrassing itself further.

EBJ Directed by: Peter SegalStarring: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson and Marisa TomeiOverall: I love Jack Nicholson and his movies are genius. I quite like Adam Sandler and Happy Gilmore is one of my favourite comedies. Putting these two together should work! It doesn't! It is awful and one of the worst comedies I've seen in a long while.Good:1. Jack Nicholson is an excellent actor and could help make any movie watchable. He is this films only saving grace.Bad:1. Such a stupid and boring plot. Even the twist(which I won't spoil in case you want to watch the movie) is stupid and doesn't work.2. It was very bland and very unfunny. I didn't laugh once but Jack Nicholson did get me smiling once or twice.3. Aide from Nicholson, the other acting was atrocious.4. Lazy and uneven cinematography.2/10

Prismark10 A childhood incident with the school bully leaves Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) with a lasting trauma about public affection, as well as repressing his emotions.He is meek, mild mannered works for an abusive boss, his girlfriend still has a cordial relationship with her ex and Dave takes it all.Whilst on a business flight Dave loses his temper when he sits next to an annoying man called Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), annoys a sky marshall, gets arrested and sentenced to anger management therapy operated by Dr Buddy Rydell who is unorthodox to say the least.It is revealed that Dave's girlfriend and Dr Rydell has set all this up to deal with Dave's emotional issues and release his anger in manageable ways rather than keeping it all zipped in.Its a rather mixed up film especially since Sandler was known for being the angry guy in his early comedy films and here he is rather mild being harassed by Joker Jack who is obnoxious and is the one getting the laughs. You can sympathise why Sandler reaches breaking point and yet ends up in even more trouble.Nicholson seems to be having fun and Sandler bounces off well with him, it seems obvious that Sandler has decided to play second fiddle to Nicholson and let him have the comedy limelight.