Anger Management - 17th April 2012

Tuesday Night is Film Night returns to comedy this week, when we dish up a dose of;

Anger Management.

Now, I 'm not a huge fan of Adam Sandler, but paired up with Jack Nicholoson in this film and you get a pretty good comic counterpoint.

Adam Sandler plays hapless Dave Buznik, who manages through no real fault of his own and in sometimes bizarre circumstances, to fall foul of the law, for alledgedly beating up an air stewardess.
As recompense, he is ordered to complete a session of anger management. He is put under the auspices of Buddy Rydell (Nicholson) and his slightly unorthodox approach to anger management.

What follows is some fairly basic, but funny situations, where Buznik manages to land himself into more trouble, which then equates to more sessions with the good Dr. Rydell.

The laughs are there in Anger Management, and they are some really good laugh out loud laughs, but they are a bit few and far between. It's consistently good, but not consistently funny.

Jack Nicholson is undoubtably the star of the piece, Sandler is his slightly annoying counterpart. In fact Sandler is upstaged by some of the smaller roles; look out for his Lawyer in the Courtroom scenes and the many cameo appearances, especially a cracker from John McEnroe.

I may have played down Anger Management somewhat, it's certainly a film that could stand more than one viewing and would stand up well to that test. It's a shame about Adam Sandler, but hey! You may like him.

Enjoy!