The comedy is never more than sudden, outsized explosions of violence from the otherwise placid, childlike Happy. But director Dugan maximizes the laughs through careful timing and counterpoint.

[A] one-joke Caddyshack for the blitzed and jaded.

There are about three minutes of funny material in Happy Gilmore, and pretty much all of them are in the trailer.

It’s hard to dislike a film about an underdog in an elitist sport trying to do right by his grandma.