AT THE MOVIES WITH KASEY BUTCHER
As a little kid, I had a red-hot temper. My fuse was so short it didn’t even exist. As I’ve grown older, however, I’ve “mellowed out” some and now my friends actually laugh with me about my inability to really get angry with someone. The truth is I do get quite angry with my friends and family from time to time, I just don’t let them know it.
This is much like the problem Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler, 8 Crazy Nights) has in the new comedy Anger Management. Buznik is a professional assistant and the designer of a clothing line for obese cats (yes, obese cats). His calm composure causes him to miss out on things he really deserves because he doesn’t want conflict. While on a business trip, he is stuck sitting next to the most annoying man on earth, so he’s already irritated when the flight attendant takes forever to get him his headset. He keeps his cool though. Somehow he ends up in anger management-therapy anyway and the annoying man from the plane turns out to be Dr. Buddy Rydell, (Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt) his therapist. In the beginning, things are looking up for Buznik. He may be able to get out of the program in a matter of days. His assigned “anger-ally” ruins everything, however, by dragging Buznik into a bar brawl. He is then assigned to ’round the clock observation and therapy under Rydell’s supervision. (By therapy, he means Dave making him breakfast and singing “I Feel Pretty” while holding up traffic on the freeway.) As his treatment progresses, Buznik’s anger starts to change from being implosive (kept to himself) to being explosive (tackling monks) and he starts to wonder if he is really the one who needs the therapy (in other words Dr. Buddy seems to be a few tacos short of a combo).
It’s kind of funny that I went to this movie with two of my friends who were mad at each other. By the time the credits rolled, however, everything was a-okay. So, if comedy is really a form of therapy, someone please give Adam Sandler a PhD. This movie was extremely funny, possibly the funniest I’ve seen in a long time. Surprisingly, it’s not all composed of the type of humor we’ve come to associate with Sandler. He actually used a bit of satire (yes, satire)! It was pretty clever in parts, not something I’ve seen out of Sandler-flicks.
Jack Nicholson was okay, I definitely cannot say he was my favorite part, but he was humorous enough to work opposite Sandler. As far as Sandler is concerned, this was quite a redemption from the loathsome 8 Crazy Nights. Marisa Tomei (The Guru-coming soon) was in this film also. She plays Linda, Buznik’s girlfriend. This made me so happy as she is one of my favorites. She did a great job as well.
Overall, Anger Management is an awesome and hysterical film that everyone should see—I’ll be mad if you don’t!
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