Unbridled rage is always funny, right? Not in this meandering comedy, which sentences a falsely accused batterer (Adam Sandler) to 30 days of supervision by a manipulative counselor (Jack Nicholson).

Jack Nicholson's eyes are hooded by brows that leap into circumflexes on command: At his whim they turn the actor's face into a rictus of demented glee or a reptilian death mask. In "Anger Management, ...

On paper, it sounds great: the idea of having Jack Nicholson play one of his more extreme characters for laughs, while teaming him with a box-office-hotter young comedian like Adam Sandler. This ...