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xarkitu

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This is such an idiotic movie that i almost cried seeing it. It just doesn't make any sense. Just stupid! Didn't like it at all!!!

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Posted jun 25, 2008 1:33 am pt

BoredMark

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Its dumb funny - but its actually a little clever in how its done.

This film pretty much sums up everything funny Adam Sandler has ever said. If you like Sandler's randomness in the way he gives punchlines - this is most directly in...
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Its dumb funny - but its actually a little clever in how its done.

This film pretty much sums up everything funny Adam Sandler has ever said. If you like Sandler's randomness in the way he gives punchlines - this is most directly in his style of all his films. I have watched this so many times I've started to feel guilty.

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Posted may 5, 2008 1:19 pm pt

Reaganfan

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This was such a funny Adam Sandler movie. I like how his caracter act like a kid and end up going to school. He can be mean and funny to the kids at the same time. If you want a good laugh. this is one of the movie worth watching. I give it four...
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This was such a funny Adam Sandler movie. I like how his caracter act like a kid and end up going to school. He can be mean and funny to the kids at the same time. If you want a good laugh. this is one of the movie worth watching. I give it four stars.

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Posted jan 23, 2008 3:40 am pt

FilipHolm

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Not a good movie, but not a pain to watch.

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Posted may 5, 2007 6:35 am pt

shotime1979

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Adam Sandler's best comedy, from that era of his films. It's very funny, and Bradley Whitford's character is great, and what puts the movie of the top as a good comedy.

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Posted mar 13, 2007 3:17 pm pt

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I thought the story is relly odd but must of the movie was relly funny and ok good movie to watch when you have time on your hands i give the movie a rating of 3 stars.

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Posted mar 12, 2007 10:03 pm pt

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This and Happy Gilmore are probably two of Adam Sandler's funniest and most quotable movies of all time. Yes, the plot is silly and the humor is low-brow, but how can you argue with the combination of Adam Sandler and Chris Farley?

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This and Happy Gilmore are probably two of Adam Sandler's funniest and most quotable movies of all time. Yes, the plot is silly and the humor is low-brow, but how can you argue with the combination of Adam Sandler and Chris Farley?

Adam plays a man in his twenties who realizes that his rich hotelier father paid off every one in his life so that Billy didn't have to feel dumb. The point of the movie is that if Billy goes back to school, starting at Kindergarten and graduates each class in two weeks, all the way through grade 12, then he will inherit his father's successful hotel busines.

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Posted jan 26, 2007 11:21 pm pt

Agreb91

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Not the best movie in the world. It has a weak stupid based story and lots of dumb humor but at least they tried, and that is about it.

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Posted jan 23, 2007 8:18 am pt

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I am glad that this recieves shocking ratings because I didn't like it one small bit. All of my friends liked in when they were younger and when I finally saw it, i didn't get it at all.

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Posted dec 30, 2006 8:51 am pt

• [+] Variety
  
  40
  There are a few bursts of sheer, irresistible idiocy -- along the lines of "Wayne's World" or even "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"-- but not enough to sustain the more arid stretches.

  by Brian Lowry | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  40
  It succeeds as a reasonably smart no-brainer. If you've ever had a yen to relive the third grade, this must be the next best thing.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  30
  A more kid-friendly version of "Dumb and Dumber." And there's even a moral: "Yahoo for education," though the movie doesn't really put any muscle behind it.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
  25
  Tedious, unfunny.

  by Barbara Shulgasser | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
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  Sandler mugs through a back-to-school daze. [13 February 1995, p.D1]

  by Susan Wloszczyna | Read Full Review »
• [+] Christian Science Monitor
  
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  Adam Sandler's creative songs and silly expressions on "Saturday Night Live" may have turned him into a celebrity, but this movie based solely on his antics doesn't work.

  by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  By the end, you feel like a drill sergeant-you want to wipe that stupid grin off Sandler's face.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
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  Director Tamra Davis and screenwriters Sandler and Tim Herlihy scatter the bad jokes like fertilizer. Nothing sprouts.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  Okay, a couple of sniggers sneak out, but on the whole the effect is stone cold.

  by Ian Nathan | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
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  The film should have featured more absurd and nonsensical elements. Certainly the plot is ridiculous, and so completely illogical that to see it fall by the wayside in favor of some inspired lunacy would not have been a loss.

  by Staff (Not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  Billy Madison is so singularly stupid that "Dumb and Dumber" looks (almost) like a beacon of braininess and taste in comparison.

  by Christopher Harris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
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  One of the most execrable movies ever made. [6 March 1995, p.100]

  by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
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  A sorry excuse for a movie, and director Davis (CB4, Guncrazy) and star Sandler should be very embarrassed.

  by Joey O'Bryan | Read Full Review »