Article: NICHOLSON, SANDLER LACK COMEDIC FIRE IN `ANGER MANAGEMENT'

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 ...

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