Happy Gilmore 2 is the Holy Grail for golf nerds. Most of the greatest golfers of recent times appear in the film, and many of them have lines. Tiger Woods is missing, but just about everyone else is around. In addition to today’s big names like Rory, Scottie, Bryson and Xander, there are also past greats like Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Fred Couples.
In addition to the golfers, there are also many cameos from music giants, comics, sportscasters, athletes from other sports, and Sandler’s usual posse. Basically, the entire movie consists of cameos.
My favorite parts:
- Long John Daly has more than a walk-on. He is a major character in the film, showing a great sense of humor by playing an exaggerated version of himself. He also turned out to be a halfway decent actor.
- Bad Bunny is amazing. I had no idea. He’s gifted and graceful, and a very funny man.
- Travis Kelce is quite funny in a small role as an insincere, obsequious head waiter.
If I wanted to find things to criticize, I could, but what’s the point? Adam Sandler is just trying to show everyone a good time with some mindless entertainment. I mean if you choose to watch a movie with Eric Andre, you have a pretty good idea that isn’t going to be a remake of Schindler’s List. In essence, Sandler is hosting a party. Who goes to the party to criticize the host? That’s poor form. If you want to read the comments of the world’s cynics, edgelords and Eeyores, there’s all you can handle at Rotten Tomatoes.
Sort of related:
If you’re curious about the golf skills of Happy Gilmore’s real-life counterpart, you can see Sandler play 18 holes with Bryson DeChambeau in the latter’s “Break 50” series.
Sandler is making the movies Burt Reynolds used to. Gather a bunch of his friends and a few other celebs he could gather, assemble a flimsy premise, shoot it, and get drunk. Sandler may not get drunk.
On a Bad Bunny note: I can’t recommend Bullet Train enough. His first movie role, and he’s great. That whole movie is great. Action perfection. Made Brad Pitt likeable again.
Good observation re Sandler’s movies. Kind of this generation’s version of “The Rat Pack,” where making the movie is secondary to the party.
I believe it was his friend Hal Needham that would make those movies and Burt would agree to be in them. Burt seemed like a pretty good friend often passing up other movie roles to be in Hal’s. Later on I think Burt said he regretted missing a movie or 2, but I’m sure they all had a good time and that’s all that really matters. Hollywood is definitely going to have to bring some fun back into entertainment if they want to survive into the future.
I prefer Sandler in his dramatic roles.
yes this is the golden age (at least year) of bad golf entertainment. I also just finish 10 episodes of “Stick” (Apple TV) Both it and Happy G2 exceeded any expectations; which I had none. Daly playing a parody of parody of himself was brilliant.
Great fun, enjoyed it immensely. The trick is to accept it for what it is from the start.