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Article: NICHOLSON, SANDLER LACK COMEDIC FIRE IN `ANGER MANAGEMENT'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2003
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The moral of the new Adam Sandler dud, "Anger Management," is:
Being mad solves nothing. This may strike fans of "Happy Gilmore" and
"The Waterboy" as a mite disingenuous. In those movies, being mad
solved everything.
"Anger Management" offers the intriguing ad-
dition of Jack Nicholson to the standard Sandler shenanigans.
Sandler's Dave, a meek Manhattan executive assistant, is sentenced to
anger-management sessions with instructor Nicholson, who winds up
taking over his life. The three-time Oscar winner hasn't had fun this
cheap and easy since he played the devil in "The Witches of
Eastwick." Infectious as he is, "Anger Management" is still a
stoopid movie, front-loaded with infantile ...