rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 2003
Directed by Peter Segal; produced by Barry Bernardi, Jack Giarraputo; written by David Dorfman
Starring Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, Woody Harrelson
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Adam Sandler is less annoying than in most of his other movies and for me
that was enough to kind of like 'Anger Management'. Of course we also have
Jack Nicholson, who always seems to play a version of himself, but never
bores us. That the story is stupid and implausible is something we can
forget because there are enough jokes to keep us from thinking about the
events.
The story could be told in ten minutes I guess. We have Dave Buznik (Adam
Sandler) who is send to an anger management program because he gets a little
mad in an airplane. He has every right to be, but the court decides he can
choose between jail and anger management. The latter it is. His therapist is
Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), who has unorthodox methods and seems the
one who really needs to have anger management. We meet some others including
Lou (Luis Guzmán) and Chuck (John Turturro) who are also in anger
management, and Linda (Marisa Tomei), Dave's girl.
Of course in the end they are all part of the big picture, something I will
not reveal. That things are implausible is something we are able to forget
since Sandler actually does a pretty nice job, Nicholson makes you smile
anyway and Tomei has the kind of sweetness you want from the lady in a movie
like this. Not the greatest comedy ever made, but entertaining enough.