![]() Owen Gleiberman also panned the film, saying "By the end, you feel like a drill sergeant-you want to wipe that stupid grin off Sandler's face". On At the Movies, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert both gave the film thumbs down, and Roger Ebert said of Sandler, ".Not an attractive screen presence, he might have a career as a villain or a fall guy or the butt of a joke, but as the protagonist his problem is he creates the fingernails on the blackboard." Gene Siskel added ".you don't have a good motivation for the character's behavior". Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times commented "Sandler has a bad habit of thinking he is funnier than we are". ![]() Richard Schickel panned the film, calling it "one of the most execrable movies ever made". On the film review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, it received a 46% rating from 39 reviews, with the site's consensus stating " Billy Madison is typical early immature fare from Adam Sandler, even if it finds moments of inspired lunacy". Metacritic gives the film a score of 16 out of 100 based on reviews from 13 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". Critical responseīilly Madison received negative reviews. Eric watches on and fumes in frustration over Billy's decision. ![]() Eric recovers from the attack and attempts to shoot Veronica, but he is shot by Danny McGrath, a rifle-wielding madman whom Billy apologized to earlier for bullying him.Īt his graduation ceremony, Billy announces he will pass the hotel business to Carl Alphonse, one of his father's more polite businessmen, and attend college in order to become a teacher. He brandishes a handgun, but Max (in his wrestling gear) tackles Eric before he can harm Billy. Eric, being a highly unscrupulous businessman, cannot conceive of an answer and breaks down. Billy stumbles on the opening question in the event, and Eric is given the chance to win the contest by answering a question about business ethics. Billy intervenes and challenges Eric to an academic decathlon to finally settle their feud with the winner getting to run the company.īoth men excel in different activities but Billy manages to take a single-point lead before the contest's final event, a Jeopardy!-style academic test. He then threatens to sue Brian if he does not pass the company onto him. Brian agrees to give Billy another chance but Eric cites that Billy failed the challenge by taking more than two weeks to complete a grade. Veronica motivates him to return to school, while his grade school classmates convince Max to retract his bribery accusations. Billy grows distraught and reverts to his carefree lifestyle. Eric blackmails principal Max Anderson into claiming that Billy bribed him for passing grades, with pictures of Anderson's previous career as a masked wrestler who accidentally killed a man in the ring.īrian swiftly terminates his agreement with Billy and renames Eric as his successor. Billy's progress alarms Eric, who becomes increasingly agitated as Billy completes each grade. Billy becomes popular among the third graders and misses them as he advances through school. He finds himself as one of Veronica's students in the third grade and earns her respect by standing up for Ernie, his friend and classmate. Nevertheless, Billy successfully progresses through his first two grades. Shortly after enrolling into school, Billy becomes attracted to a teacher named Veronica Vaughn, who initially ignores him. The two finally compromise: Billy must complete all 12 grades in two-week intervals to prove he is competent enough to manage the company. ![]() When Billy begs his father to reconsider his decision, Brian reveals that he secretly bribed Billy's school teachers to give him passing grades. Brian loses confidence in his son and chooses the conniving Eric Gordon as his successor. One day, Billy ruins a dinner meeting between his father and his associates by acting obnoxiously. He spends his days drinking with friends and creating disturbances across his father's estate. Billy Madison is the 27-year-old heir to a Fortune 500 hotel company that his father, Brian, founded.
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