Billy doesn't want to be cut out so agrees to go through school all over again - doing one grade every two weeks. 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.
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!
FAQ 2. Does Billy have learning disabilities? Details Edit. Release date February 10, United States. United States. Official Facebook. English French Spanish. Parkwood Estate, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
Universal Pictures Robert Simonds Productions. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 29 minutes. Related news. Billy challenges Eric to an academic decathlon that will determine his father's successor.
Although both men excel in different activities, Billy manages to take a single-point lead before the contest's final event, a Jeopardy! Eric chooses "reflections of society in literature" as Billy's topic. Billy uses a book that was read to him in the first grade to answer the question, but the judge calls his answer "insanely idiotic" and gives Billy no points for his answer.
With scores still the same, Eric is given the chance to answer and potentially win. However, Billy chooses a question for Eric about "business ethics", of which Eric has no concept, and begins to break down.
Refusing to admit defeat, he brandishes a gun at Billy. Max, clad in his wrestling outfit, subdues Eric.
The attack fails to keep Eric down and laughing maniacally, he makes a final attempt to get revenge on Billy by turning his gun on Veronica. Suddenly, Danny McGrath appears with a high-powered rifle and disables Eric by firing a single shot into his buttocks. Danny and Billy share a quick wave, before he departs.
At Billy's graduation, he announces that he is passing the hotel business down to Carl and will instead attend college with hopes of becoming a teacher. He and Veronica share a kiss and the film ends. The film received mixed reviews from critics. Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times commented; "Sandler has a bad habit of thinking he is funnier than we do. His father Brian Madison who runs Madison Hotels is retiring and is thinking of handing his company to Billy, but also thinking of giving it to Eric Gordon, a weasel-like co-worker of Madison Hotels.
Billy strikes a deal with his father to go through grades to earn the company. He still goofs off in school and tries to score with his teachers, including his sexy third grade teacher, Veronica Vaughn.
Billy Madison is a non-working, non-educated slacker who lives entirely off his dad. He spends his day drinking beer, reading girly magazines, and hanging out by the pool. When his father realizes that Billy is unfit to run the family business, Billy decides that he must go back to school and earn a real education.
He figures it will be no problem going back to high school and learning over again, until he learns that his father bought Billy's passing grades all the way back in elementary school. Thus, Billy must return to elementary school and pass each grade one at a time in a short time, or else he loses his place as heir to the company.
In addition, Billy tries to win the hand of Veronica, a sexy school teacher who thinks her students are more mature than Billy. Sign In.
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