Anger Management Rating:  Starring: Jack Nicholson, Adam Sandler, Marisa Tomei
UK Certificate: 18
Sandler plays decent-but-repressed Dave Buznik, who, after an altercation aboard a plane, is made to undergo counselling at the hands of unconventional anger management therapist Dr. Buddy Rydell (Nicholson). Of course, Rydell drives his patient round the bend and hilarity is supposed to ensue. Only it doesn't, and what starts out as a dark-hearted and unconventional 'buddy' movie - with Nicholson and Sandler displaying some surprising onscreen chemistry - soon becomes yet another post-9/11 syrup-fest full of cloying sentimentality.
In its defence, Anger Management does have a couple of great moments. Heather Graham has a terrific cameo involving chocolate cake and the word 'porker' - and there's a genuinely chuckle-inducing scene in which Sandler, egged on by Nicholson, travels to a Buddhist retreat to confront the kid who bullied him in high school.
Set at Yankee Stadium, the film's final half-hour is pretty much unforgiveable though, full of Brit-unfriendly baseball in-jokes and a feelgood twist so sickly it could kill a diabetic.
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