Critical Reception
Happy Madison's films have, for the most part, received mixed to negative critical reception.
As of June 2012, the only films to have received a 'fresh' rating are Reign Over Me and Funny People. Yet most movies, as per the table above, have been commercial successes relative to their production costs.
| Year | Film | Metacritic | Rotten Tomatoes |
Roger Ebert |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo | 30 | 23 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | Little Nicky | 38 | 22 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | The Animal | 43 | 30 | |
| 2001 | Joe Dirt | 20 | 11 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | Mr. Deeds | 24 | 22 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | The Master of Disguise | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 2002 | Eight Crazy Nights | 23 | 12 | 2 |
| 2002 | The Hot Chick | 29 | 21 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | Anger Management | 52 | 43 | 2 |
| 2003 | Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star | 36 | 23 | 2 |
| 2004 | 50 First Dates | 48 | 44 | 3 |
| 2005 | The Longest Yard | 48 | 31 | 3 |
| 2005 | Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo | 23 | 10 | 0 |
| 2006 | Grandma's Boy | 33 | 18 | |
| 2006 | The Benchwarmers | 25 | 12 | |
| 2006 | Click | 45 | 33 | 2 |
| 2007 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry | 37 | 14 | |
| 2007 | Reign Over Me | 61 | 63 | |
| 2008 | Strange Wilderness | 12 | 0 | |
| 2008 | The House Bunny | 55 | 40 | |
| 2008 | You Don't Mess with the Zohan | 54 | 36 | 3 |
| 2008 | Bedtime Stories | 33 | 25 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | 39 | 33 | 3 |
| 2009 | The Shortcut | |||
| 2009 | Funny People | 60 | 68 | 3.5 |
| 2010 | Grown Ups | 30 | 10 | 2 |
| 2011 | Just Go with It | 33 | 20 | 1 |
| 2011 | Zookeeper | 30 | 14 | 3 |
| 2011 | Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star | 9 | 0 | |
| 2011 | Jack and Jill | 23 | 3 | |
| 2012 | That's My Boy | 30 | 23 | |
| 2012 | Here Comes the Boom | 40 | 38 |
NOTE: Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes scores are out of 100. Roger Ebert scores out of 4.
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