The 90s were a great year for movies with Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey.
I think mine is Happy Gilmore.
I remember watching it at my girlfriend at the times place. Her mom was real uptight, but when Happy said, āYou eat pieces of shit for breakfast??ā she lost it and laughed.
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Happy Gilmore is way up there for me too
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Oh that reminds me: The Cable Guy is the most unfairly hated-upon comedy ever. People were so mad that it wasnāt The Mask Part II and was instead something much better that they werenāt prepared for.
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Maybe?? I have tried it multiple times and just never connected with the material.
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I dunno about Sandler. Happy Gilmore was great, but I think thatās the only one I would give that label to.
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Wedding Singer was great too.
I guess I reject the notion of Happy Gilmore being ādumb.ā Itās funny because the humor is clever and the comic deliveries are strong. Itās great because of a bunch of things itās doing exactly right with their exact intent landing well. It doesnāt seem correct to just conflate slapstick with dumb.
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The price is right, bitch. Doesnāt get more epic than that.
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Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, Big Daddy is a nice five-year stretch of ādumbā comedies.
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I guess ādumbā isnāt the right word (which is why I put it in quotes). I just couldnāt think of a better one.
The list of celebrity movie cameos better than this cannot be very long.
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Mid/Late-90s Comedies
Tier I
Happy Gilmore
Austin Powers
Tommy Boy
The Cable Guy
Dumb and Dumber
The Wedding Singer
Tier II
Ace Ventura
The Mask
Liar Liar
Tier III
Billy Madison
Dirty Work
Iām not sure I have compliments for many others. I slashed the decade in half to avoid intermingling those movies with the Bill Murray and Steve Martin movies since they just sort of seem like different things from different SNL generations.
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Right??? Iām not as big on Big Daddy, but Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Wedding Singer are an incredible set of three perfect movies. Then thereās 50 First Dates, which is just infinitely rewatchable on almost the same level as The Wedding Singer.
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Jim Carrey owning all of Tier II is a thing
I agree about Big Daddy, even though āthatās a shitload of pissā lives forever in my head.
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You trying to say it isnāt so??
Yeah, I didnāt like it. Better than Never Been Kissed in the pantheon of subpar 00s Drew Barrymore romcoms, I suppose.
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SUBPAR?!!
Themās fighting words.
In all seriousness, dang, Iām sad to hear it didnāt hit it for you. Did you see Blended? I didnāt like that one at all.
The Wedding Singer is pretty special.
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