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Excellent DVD. it's funny to watch.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
He's heir to the Madison Hotel millions, but the only subjects Billy has studied lately are babes and booze. For him, life has been a ten-year party since he left high school: drinking bottomless daiquiris, catching rays by the pool, pulling moronic pranks and chasing anything in (or out of!) a skirt. But when Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to vice president and corporate weasel Eric Gordon, Billy makes the bet of his life. He's going back to school – grades 1 through 12 in 24 weeks! – with hilarious results. And this time, Mr Madison's cheque book won't be the source of Billy's academic “advancement”. Can bona fide blockhead Billy clean up his act to win his father's respect, the family fortune and the love of his beautiful teacher, Veronica? Hey, it's worth a shot!Read full review
Rich idiot Adam Sandler goes back to school in a Dumb & Dumber-style comedy scattered with fellow 'Saturday Night Live' stars If you enjoy the Farrelly Brothers' movies, you'll love this. Adam Sandler plays Billy Madison, the 27-year-old son of a billionaire hotelier (McGavin). Billy never had to grow up. He communicates in Sandler's trademark kiddy-talk drawl, sings motivational songs aloud to himself and leaves flaming bags of dogshit on the neighbours' doorstep. He's fantastically immature, and equally stupid (he never realised there was a "silent 'c' in 'rock"). In fact, he only graduated from high school because daddy bribed the teachers must prove that he's capable of taking over the family business by going back to school and passing grades one through 12 in only 24 weeks. If he fails, the firm will be handed over to evil corporate brown-nose Eric Gordon (Whitford). It's the first real challenge of Billy's life (made harder by Gordon's scheming), but with the love of sexy third grade teacher Miss Vaughn (Wilson) to spur him on, anything's possible Adam Sandler isn't to everybody's taste. His humour is heroically un-PC. (Clean up the language of the Madison's black maid and she could have come straight out of Gone With The Wind), and sometimes just plain surreal (whenever Billy gets drunk he starts chasing an imaginary giant penguin). But when you get that Sandler's comedic persona is meant to be annoying, like Beavis and Butthead or Cartman, the laughs come thick and fast. Here he gets to trade scatological riffs with fellow 'Saturday Night Live' degenerates Norm MacDonald (who plays Billy's best friend Frank), Robert Smigel (in the role of Mr Oblaski) and the late Chris Farley (as a psychotic schoolbus driver). As in all Sandler's films, the humour is underpinned by a positive message (building self-respect through education) and a surprisingly endearing sweetness. So, when a fellow pupil is being taunted for pissing himself, Billy splashes water on his own crotch and claims that pant-wetting is cool. Best of all is his 'Back To School' song: Back to school, back to school/ To prove to Dadda I'm not a fool/ I've got my lunch packed up/ My shoes tied tight/I hope I don't get in a fight/ Back to school, back to school. Aaah.Read full review
I personally love this movie with all my heart, it has to be my favourite of all Sandlers movies, with The Waterboy following a close 2nd place. Billy is a fully grown man, with the mind of a child, right away that spells comedy moments by the bundle in this perfect movie if what is needed is, pure laughter. Sandler is accompanied by a great cast of some-what unknown actors...but each play their own brilliant part in this film. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoys a fun, rib tickling comedy 10/10
Brought the film on DVD after owning on film since release, great film! I would highly recommend to anyone.
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