Anger Management
Adam Sandler plays Dave Buznik, an executive assistant who has been content to keep his emotions bottled in for all his life. The person who cares about him most, his girlfriend played by Marisa Tomei, is obviously worried. A freak confrontation aboard an airplane and a court order to seek anger management force him to seek the services of Buddy Rydell, an anger management specialist played by Jack Nicholson. However, one session later, things go horribly awry that the judge sees it fit for Rydell to use intensive techniques. This involves bunking with Buznik and following his every movement while singing the words to "I Am Pretty." Eventually, he is forced to confront his boss, his childhood nemesis, and others to go through experiences he would have otherwise chickened out of. In the end, Buznik is better from it and everyone more or less ends up happy instead of angry.

As far as comedies go, this isn't a laugh-a-minute movie. It seems to try too hard in setting up and executing their jokes that it isn't as funny as it potentially could have been. Both Sandler and Nicholson seem to hold back on their comedic and psychotic potentials respectively. A more over-the-top performance by both instead of restrained ones probably would have made the film funnier. Tomei and most of the supporting cast are also vastly under-utilized. But they did get a lot of people to do cameos to make up for it including Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. In the end, it's a funny movie with some good ideas that are probably hilarious when read in a script but just okay when you see the actors on screen performing it. 2.5 stars