Billy Madison

Maybe it's because I'm too old, not that I'm too smart, but I don't get Adam Sandler movies. There are moments of humor in Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and The Waterboy, but none of them are funny movies. They're just stupid. I watch these things and I think, "Why don't I get it?" The answer is simple, for me--I don't care about the main characters. I don't care if Billy gets to inherit the business, Happy and his gramma can go away and never return, and Bobby can hang out in the swamp for the rest of his unnatural life.

I just don't care about them.

With this in mind, why should I laugh when each movie is a cookie-cutter exercise in the adventures of a moron being moronic with two-dimensional bad guys, utterly predictable good guys, and perky, eye-candy love interests to tickle the lizard at the bottom of my brain pan? I recently watched all three of these pieces of dreck, and that's 270 minutes I don't get back in my life span.

Yech.