Anger Management Reviews

I am not a fan of Adam Sandler, I find he is good in the more dramatic films(Punch Drunk Love and Reign Over Me are his best performances to me) and save a few exceptions(Spanglish, The Wedding Singer and Happy Gilmore) I find him irritating in comedy. However, Anger Management is one of the exceptions, Sandler is quite good here but Jack Nicholson outshines him. The script is funny likewise with most of the gags(the describing-who-he-is scene), the story intriguing, the pace snappy in the first two thirds and the characters fairly likable. What lets Anger Management though are one or two scenes that don't quite work such as the basketball scene and a final third that is not only a little draggy compared to the first two-thirds but rather clichéd and cheesy too. Overall, entertaining and a better film than I anticipated. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Looks like Nicholson wanted to shed some of his talent and dignity.

Sandler and Nicolson's duet of I Feel Pretty (from West Side Story) is gggggreat! I can hear Opera Man from it.. And dr. Buddy (Nicholson) has got Dave (Sandler) completely in control!

Well, we all do get upset from time to time, so here they show it from the funny side

Even though I don’t really care about Adam Sandler, since I’m a huge fan of Jack Nicholson, I still wanted to check this flick. I have to admit that it was a pretty cool idea to make a flick about a subject such as anger management with Jack Nicholson as therapist, that was a brilliant start. Unfortunately, even though most of Sandler’s movies start up with a good, or at least, a decent idea, the execution is a totally different matter, I’m afraid. At least, this time, I enjoyed most of it, which is not something I can say about all the Sandler vehicles. Indeed, there was a pretty cool cast (Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei, Luis Guzmán, January Jones, John Turturro, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly) and there were some funny scenes, definitely. It was above all pretty neat to see the great Jack Nicholson in such a wacky comedy. Unfortunately, like any other feature starring Adam Sandler, there is here a total lack of ambition or even interest to lift up the whole thing to something better, more challenging, and instead it usually goes for the cheap laughs throughout the whole thing. Still, I have to admit, it is one of the better Sandler flicks I have seen, it is a decent comedy and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

Adam Sandler is the bomb and combined with Jack Nicholson, its just crazy....