Um das Hotelimperium seines Vaters zu erben, muss ein unreifer und fauler Mann die Klassen 1-12 wiederholen.Um das Hotelimperium seines Vaters zu erben, muss ein unreifer und fauler Mann die Klassen 1-12 wiederholen.Um das Hotelimperium seines Vaters zu erben, muss ein unreifer und fauler Mann die Klassen 1-12 wiederholen.
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Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
- Veronica Vaughn
- (as Bridgette Wilson)
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WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesDuring the school bus scene, Chris Farley turning bright red in aggravation was improvised, according to Adam Sandler in I Am Chris Farley (2015). Chris, before every scene, would chug entire cups of espressos to maintain his trademark manic energy. A thing he would do in pretty much every movie since.
- PatzerWhen Billy is dialing the phone to call the guy he picked on in high school, you hear a phone ringing. This is part of the song being played.
- Zitate
Principal: Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
- Alternative VersionenIn some edited-for-tv versions of the film, during the Jeopardy game at the end of the film, the scene of the host reading the "burning dog poo and the human response" clue has been removed. However, the clue can still be seen on the board in distant shots.
- SoundtracksTelephone Line
Written by Jeff Lynne
Performed by Electric Light Orchestra
Courtesy of Epic Records
by arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
Ausgewählte Rezension
A few good laughs almost makes it a decent film, but it ain't
Billy is the son of a rich businessman who owns a chain of very successful hotels. Billy lives a lazy live of goofing around and being drunk by the pool before midday. When his father decides to hand the business over to associate Eric Gordon because Billy is too dumb to do it - having only passed his school exams by his father paying his teachers. Billy doesn't want to be cut out so agrees to go through school all over again - doing one grade every two weeks.
Adam Sadler films are very much a matter of taste - if you like him doing his usual `dumb guy who makes good' stuff then you'll be right at home with his early films. I am in two minds about it, his humour is generally very lowbrow but he does have a few funny moments in any film. That is the case here, overall the humour is very childish but it does have an occasional moment that is just so off the wall and out of the blue that they are hilarious. Examples include the blue duck, an invisible penguin, the fight between shampoo & conditioner, the principal who's wife is a slut and a hilarious response to Billy where `wrong' would have sufficed!
Do these few funny moments save the film? No, they make it bearable, else I would have been angry with no laughs - but one every ten minutes make it OK, if not really worth watching. The plot is stupid and the characters are rubbish. I know that these things are not what the film is about, but one has to wonder how stupid the writers think the audience are when they simply switch Veronica from hating Billy to being totally in love with him with no explanation or reason! Of course this is a minor problem - the bigger problem is the fact that the film isn't consistently funny enough to work.
Sadler is his usual self - if you like that you'll like that if not you won't. He has a few good moments but generally his performance is childish and not funny. He has an imagination on him for the weird that happily creates the funny moments but his performance is painful. Worse still is Wilson; she cannot act in anything I've seen and here she must carry some blame for being totally unable to phase her growing affection for Billy - instead it's like she just flicked a switch. The support cast is OK although it's sad to see Whitford slumming it when he is better than this.
Overall this film has enough laugh-out-loud moments that appealed to my sense of humour and made me semi-glad I watched it. However it is a major problem that the film has no plot, characters, logic or consistent laughs. A weak film, albeit a weak film that has a handful of hilarious moments and the odd very imaginative touch!
Adam Sadler films are very much a matter of taste - if you like him doing his usual `dumb guy who makes good' stuff then you'll be right at home with his early films. I am in two minds about it, his humour is generally very lowbrow but he does have a few funny moments in any film. That is the case here, overall the humour is very childish but it does have an occasional moment that is just so off the wall and out of the blue that they are hilarious. Examples include the blue duck, an invisible penguin, the fight between shampoo & conditioner, the principal who's wife is a slut and a hilarious response to Billy where `wrong' would have sufficed!
Do these few funny moments save the film? No, they make it bearable, else I would have been angry with no laughs - but one every ten minutes make it OK, if not really worth watching. The plot is stupid and the characters are rubbish. I know that these things are not what the film is about, but one has to wonder how stupid the writers think the audience are when they simply switch Veronica from hating Billy to being totally in love with him with no explanation or reason! Of course this is a minor problem - the bigger problem is the fact that the film isn't consistently funny enough to work.
Sadler is his usual self - if you like that you'll like that if not you won't. He has a few good moments but generally his performance is childish and not funny. He has an imagination on him for the weird that happily creates the funny moments but his performance is painful. Worse still is Wilson; she cannot act in anything I've seen and here she must carry some blame for being totally unable to phase her growing affection for Billy - instead it's like she just flicked a switch. The support cast is OK although it's sad to see Whitford slumming it when he is better than this.
Overall this film has enough laugh-out-loud moments that appealed to my sense of humour and made me semi-glad I watched it. However it is a major problem that the film has no plot, characters, logic or consistent laughs. A weak film, albeit a weak film that has a handful of hilarious moments and the odd very imaginative touch!
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- bob the moo
- 3. Jan. 2004
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Offizieller Standort
- Sprachen
- Auch bekannt als
- Billy Madison
- Drehorte
- Parkwood Estate, Oshawa, Ontario, Kanada(Billy's mansion: exterior, and grounds)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 10.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 25.588.734 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 6.639.080 $
- 12. Feb. 1995
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 26.488.734 $
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