Anger Management: Review By TheStonedReviewer

Anger Management: What I liked about this movie is I feel it didn't take itself to seriously, how I know this, Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler as a duo lead? This is not going to get an Oscar. But I found it very enjoyable and very funny, Jack Nicholson, the man accused of over acting and cruising through parts stole the show as the insane, psychotic but at the same time quite laid back tutor Dr. Buddy Rydell to Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler).

The film gets off to a very unsteady start with the incredibly clichéd and over done flash back of Adam Sandler as a kid struggling with his childhood, this seems to come up in a lot of his films, Happy Gilmore, Grown ups etc. So you start to feel that they use this format of starting a movie just because their lazy, or they don't want to pay Sandler for the 1st 2 minutes.

But once the film starts, it starts and from there a great story, Dave is a guy who has let people stomp on him for years, and throughout the movie he gets more and more intense through people treating him like garbage.

At the start of the movie we think Dave is just a regular guy, not angry at all, he's just had to suffer through one misunderstanding after another, but then we realise, as said by Buddy that there are two kinds of angry people in this world: explosive and implosive. Explosive, which is the most common, is the type of individual you see screaming at a grocery store cashier for not taking his coupon. Implosive, the least common, is the cashier at the store who remains quiet at his job day after day until he then finally loses it and just shoots everyone in the store. Dave, you're the cashier.

Hilarious gags and a great story about a friendship that seems less of a friendship and more of a prison of 2 men, one who's mission seems to be how can I make this guy so irritated that he finally pulls out a gun and shoots me by the end of the movie.

But here's what I didn't like about the story, the end, it's too soppy and unrealistic, nobody would ever let a man back on a football pitch after just running on and punching 2 police officers to tell his women that he loves her. His girlfriend might have thought it was a nice gesture, but none of the other 8000 football fans that probably just wanted to watch the game.

And it was a bad idea to have the whole thing set-up by Buddy, just for Dave's therapy, the directors only did it so to make Buddy turn out to be a great doctor, I for one preferred him a crazy maniac who's supposed to be an Anger Management teacher but is instead, only driving Dave to insanity.

Great film, doesn't try to hard, good idea for a fully functioning plot that is totally funny but did not quite cut it in the end, still very funny and two awesome cameo's, one from John C Riley as a Buddhist which was just perfect and the other from John McEnroe who played himself a very angry tennis player, who really does need help, gave this film an entire 0.5 stars more.

Anger Management, couldn't understand why Jack Nicholson, Shining Heeeer's Johnny! Jack Nicholson, the same man who chased his family round a house with an axe Jack Nicholson was playing the tutor of an Anger management class, not one of the students was odd, but still liked the irony.

I give Anger Management 4.5 stoned stars!