It is probably not a piece to say that I watched the 1996 movie Happy Gilmore More than fifty times since it was released on February 16 of that year. Every now and then it seems to be on television for a weekend film series, and it is still pretty funny today. By saying that, I had some time to kill this morning while I was working on something else, and that gave me the opportunity to tune into the latest romps from Adam Sandler on the Fairways in Happy Gilmore 2. The early reviews I had read on Saturday evening were at best, so I wanted to see if the jokes were still funny, the cameies were still so good and the stars of the show kept scoring big on the golf course. Wax Happy Gilmore 2 A solid smile after thirty years, or would this long-awaited follow-up be a shaft at the bottom of a fairway pond?
Let me be free in advance by saying that I had not expected an Academy Award-winning acting in this film. Based on how the first film was soothed by critics everywhere who seem to forget that comedies should not be to be life -changing dramas, I hoped that Happy Gilmore 2 Would continue to score some Goofy smile while bringing cameos from the golf world in Happy Gilmore’s Golf-Voor-Mistake world. Instead, I was surprised by the film.
The film is filled with flashbacks to the first film and until the time between the two films while the story is building. Julie Bowen’s Virginia Venit plays a major role in the plot, but not the way people think. I will not spoil the film here with important details, but the recording of Bowen in the film is a welcome presence, and I wish she was actually used more than just in the way she depicted her character.
It is difficult to imagine that Sandler and writing partner Tim Herlihy has to rewind the entire script, but you may have heard the recent story about the duo that the film should rewrite After Carl Weathers died. It is a bit of a shame because it seemed as if Sandler really wanted to give the character of Derick “Chubbs” Peterson a fantastic background story, but everything changed with weather at the age of 76. Not for nothing, that’s a film that I would like to see.
Of course the most important rivalry in the first film returns, albeit later than expected, in the second film as Christopher McDonald’s Shooter McGavin plays a major role in promoting the plot of the film. McDonald embraces the same immortal hatred for Gilmore as in the first film, but there will be a point in the film where the protagonist and antagonist finally work out their differences. How they do that must be seen, but let’s say that it will return the majority of the original film on the track. What he also does as an actor in the future, McDonald’s view of Shooter McGavin is perhaps his most iconic role.
The story of Happy Gilmore 2 Focuses on Gilmore’s retirement with golf after a large Trajedy in his life, and that spiral downwards his family – four sons and a daughter – in a large way. What is discovered is that Gilmore’s daughter, Vienna (played by Sandler’s daughter, Sunny), is a talented dancer and receives an invitation to dance to the exclusive Paris Ballet school that costs $ 75,000 a year. Unnecessary to say that Gilmore has to earn some big money quickly, and the family, including permanent home guest John Daly, convinces Gilmore that he has to go back to golf to win that money.
To do that, Gilmore has to kick an alcohol addiction that was a running plug throughout the first half of the film, because everything that Sandler could imagine was turned into a flask. To kick the addiction, he ends up at an alcoholic meeting where we are re -introduced to Ben Stiller’s Hal L. Die Oma Gilmore in the nursing home in the first film terrorized. HAL runs the Alcoholics’ meeting, but he seems to have the same attitude as in the first film that Gilmore rubs the wrong way. However, he must endure these meetings to play golf, so he bites his tongue while getting positive encouragement on his way of meeting participant Charlotte (played by Sandler’s daughter, Sadie).
A casual meeting with Maxi Golf CEO Frank Manatee in a supermarket where Gilmore works, gives us the long arch and the plot of Happy Gilmore 2 While Maxi Golf wants to destroy the traditional golf game with faster play, obstacles and a seven-hole course with all kinds of crazy holes that are recorded for golfers. Unnecessary to say that Manatee (played by Benny Safdie) and his golfers seem to imitate the same idea that the Liv Golf Tour had tried to use the PGA Tour.
From this point you have to watch the film because everything else I write as spoilers can be considered for what happens. Needless to say that the hijinks and madness that are seen in the original film are returned Happy Gilmore 2and The Laughs Follow Yet Wy We see people as a professional Tour Championship golfers Scottie Scheffler, Bryson Deschambeau, Rory Mcilroy and Brooks Koepka join Gilmore for what turns out to be a scandalous final in Happy Gilmore 2.
To be honest, the cameies never put in this film, and it is almost difficult to notice some of them how quickly they seem to appear on the screen. Among the remarkable people who return from the original film are Dennis Dugan who resumes his role as a tour championship commissioner Doug Thompson, Sportcaster Verne Lundquist, who plays herself again, Kevin Nealon who plays Gary Potter again, and Robert Smigel who turns around from IRS agent to lawyer. There are beautiful tribute to the late Richard Kiel, Happy’s fan with the nail in his head; To the late Joe Flaherty, the “Jackass” man hired by shooter who loves the Sizzler restaurant; And of course against Carl -Weersers.
If there is one person who has an incredible outbreak role, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio – better known as a rapper and singer Bad Bunny – whose character Oscar Mejías steals a number of scenes. I honestly enjoyed Bad Bunny’s view of Happy Gilmore’s Caddy, and his efforts were the best of the couple for people with long cameies in the film. Happy Gilmore’s Four Sons – played by Maxwell Jacob Friedman, Philip Schneider, Ethan Cutkosky and Conor Sherry – are sometimes solid comic relief. Other remarkable cameets were Eminem, Guy Fieri, Steve Buscemi, former Happy Gilmore CADDY-ARE-PROFILE golfer Will Zalatoris, and former NHL players Chris Chelios and Sean Avery! Oh, and there is a man named Travis Kelce.
There are so many more cameies from famous people, so you will have to watch the film to see them all. What I want to emphasize is that this film feels like a solid sequel that comes thirty years after the original, and it fits like a happy Madison production because it is a goofy, funny, not-serious Adam Sandler play film. No, it is not going to win Academy Awards. No, it will not be visible in a classic film study. No, it will not be in a criterion collection.
Instead of, Happy Gilmore 2 Is a fun, Goofy, Mild-Vulgar-at-Times Look at a hockey player trying to try a rolling golfer to repair his life for him and his children after everything falls apart that becomes a story of the former wavecost that tries to save him so much … with a help of some people who were there before thirties ago. Happy Gilmore 2 Brings the same distorted look at Golf as in the original film, and all friends and family of Adam Sandler take action. Laugh about it – Happy Gilmore 2 Is fun!
Teebz’s rating: ★★★★ ren (4/5 stars)
Happy Gilmore 2 Streams exclusively on Netflix. The film was produced by Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Jack Giarraputo and Robert Simonds for Happy Madison Productions and Pro Shop Studios, and was released on July 25, 2025 excluding on Netflix. Happy Gilmore 2 Has a playing time of 118 minutes.
Until next time, keep your clubs in the bag!
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