Even when widely misunderstood "Happy Gilmore" (from the same director) could be seen: Adam Sandler may be delightfully original. After flat "Waterboy" here's a stroke of genius! Sometimes heartbreaking, always funny. Five stars would have been possible only for Steve Buscemi hilarious cameo as a bum. Here now a star deduction, but because it's just Sandler and now who times his difficulties. Especially ingenious: Sandler comes close ran to cry, but he, the writers and director Dennis Dugan know that he can not do it, it never comes to Heulausbruch. Super tightrope! Particularly the English version is recommended, as Sandler's German voice has such a Schlafsackunterton.