LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

valvedotboy Nowadays Adam Sandler makes awful films like Pixels, Big Daddy, Jack and Jill, and more. But this is one of thee fewest ones that are actually great. Now I will agree, Sandler acts like a complete idiot. I'm not sure if he does it in real life, but certainly in his movies. But take out the scenes where he messes up with the elderly with one of those bags, it's pretty damn good. Is it the best movie around? I did consider that when I was younger, but no. While I don't really watch too much Sandler, he at least had some potential when I was younger. People say Sandler is the worst actor, while I do admit he's pretty dumb, I can't consider him the worst.

nuoipter termer Billy Madison is a great hilarious movie. I've also seen Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, The Wedding Singer, Big Daddy, Little Nicky, Anger Management, and Click. All of those are very good movies. Billy Madison is the best Adam Sandler movie I've seen. A goofball named Billy goes to school starting with first grade so he can manage his dad's company. The movie is extremely silly. It's packed full of great entertainment. One of my favorite scenes is where Billy says to a student in school something and the kid just stares at him in shock. So Billy turns to the student on the other side of him and says the same thing. This is a wonderful movie.

Gino Cox "Billy Madison" delivers a reasonable number of laughs despite massive and potentially crippling problems with the script, characters and plot. About 80% of the jokes and gags either fell flat or were cringe-worthy from my perspective; however, there were many jokes that worked for me and others may find mirth in some of the jokes I failed to appreciate. It was sufficiently frustrating that I had to pause the movie several times; however, it had enough goofy comedy that I resumed play. Among the many faults with the movie: It fails to deliver what Blake Snyder calls the promise of the premise. Billy doesn't actually complete twelve grades. He simply survives two weeks of classes at each grade level. Very little of his classroom experiences could be described as academic. It's very repetitive, so much so that many of the grades are simply skipped in the narrative. His blow-out graduation parties at his father's mansion also become repetitive. It might have been a stronger film if he had simply returned to complete twelfth grade or first grade. In line with this, we meet many characters who are involved briefly then disappear and there's little logic to why some characters who return at later stages. The antagonist, the self-serving CEO, never really increases the stakes. He's largely passive and reactive, except for hatching one plot that is quickly subverted. The romantic subplot is not believable, although this could be said for many comedies in the category Snyder labels fool triumphant. It's not really a fool triumphant movie, as Billy rarely offers a perspective of the world from the eyes of an innocent. Billy doesn't have a credible or meaningful character arc. Initially, his character is a totally unsympathetic self-indulgent incompetent sybarite. He has some insights into human character, but isn't the typical idiot savant, like Gump, Clouseau or English. He doesn't learn much of anything beyond rote memorization of historical dates. He never develops any reasoning or problem-solving skills. At the conclusion, Billy makes a surprise announcement that isn't much of a surprise. Many of the issues and subplots are resolved not through the actions of the protagonist, but through either the failings of other characters (such as the Jeopardy game) or a deus ex machina outcome (the come-uppance of a bully). The relationship between Billy and his father needs more work. Billy doesn't really need to complete twelve grades. His need is to win back his father's respect. His father is indulgent to a fault. But he has not been able to build a huge empire with sixty thousand employees without understanding people. His inability to understand either Billy or the CEO seems implausible. As McKee wrote. Comedy is king. The plots of the Marx Brothers' movies were simply threadbare excuses for a lot of their shtick. But people don't watch a Marx Brothers movie to see an intricate plot unfold. They want the goofball comedy. BM could have been a much better film and it's frustrating that, like Billy, it never rose to its full potential. But it managed to provide sporadic laughs. Technical aspects were more than adequate. The film also benefits from the participation of talented actors and comedians in supporting roles.

thesar-2 Boy, talk about a set audience. If one does not like the incomprehensive, blundering, annoying and unimaginative drivel of Adam Sandler's inhuman man-child shtick, you would not like this movie. I never have, so it's safe to say, this was one excruciatingly painful movie to bear.That all said, I can see in a world that people flocked to see Twilight, follow Kardashians or actually would vote for Trump, there's something for everyone. Though, it would not be easy to block out the obnoxious and high-pitched annoying voice of Sandler, the movie itself is so formulaic, clichéd, obvious and felt long for even 89 minutes. Of course, that falls in the "easy for people to like" category since people tend to like sequels, remakes and films done hundreds of times before.I guess one can't really take anything serious here. Hell, Sandler didn't even look like he did since he was completely inconsistent with his own character…and I'm not talking about his predictable "growth." Granted he was playing a spoiled young adult going on -2 who did anything he wanted at any second of the day, but he would jump out of character at odd times to play someone completely different throughout the film. Throw in a bunch of other dumb and uncreative characters, and you have a movie that solely relies on its audience liking the blabber of the nitwit on screen. Like that, and you'll probably forgive everything else. Don't and I just saved you 89 precious minutes you had no idea you'd want to spend doing something constructive.