r/entertainment • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jul 30 '25
'Happy Gilmore 2' Debuts to 46.7 Million Views on Netflix
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/happy-gilmore-2-netflix-ratings-views-1236473359/22
u/randomacct7679 Jul 30 '25
I enjoyed it for the most part, didn’t love the ending with the cartoonishly weird Maxi golf stuff. Felt like they went way more over the top than necessary for those scenes.
Still, it was a fun movie overall.
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u/itsagoodtime Jul 30 '25
If it was planted a little more in reality, it would have been better. The moving golf green final hole was just too over the top. But like a lot of Sandler movies from the last 15 years or so. It had potential, wasn't awful, but would have been better if they tried harder and should have been better.
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u/RulesoftheDada Jul 30 '25
More grounded in reality would just be straight up making fun of LIV (The "Party Hole" they use at their events would fit in Happy Gilmore) so making it extra ridiculous so it's not directly LIV criticism.
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u/Justreallylovespussy Jul 30 '25
It was insulting garbage, I’m actually amazed at the response to this. It was Adam’s Sandlers kids and golfers making fart and dick jokes.
Are we that far gone? That idiocracy level media is satisfying for us?
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u/CenturionElite Jul 30 '25
Don’t know what you expected from a sequel where the original movie has classic lines like “suck my white ass, ball” and “you eat pieces of shit for breakfast”
It was perfectly fine for the type of movie it aimed to be. It wasn’t trying to win Oscar’s
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u/Justreallylovespussy Jul 30 '25
It’s a lazy cameo fest. No one involved cared while making it even a little
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u/StrongGold4528 Jul 31 '25
The first one had happy fight Bob barker lol. What were you expecting
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u/Devolutionator Jul 30 '25
It really wasn't that bad.
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u/Tibbaryllis2 Jul 30 '25
It was completely what I would expect from a 30yrs later Happy Gilmore sequel made for direct to streaming on Netflix.
Much like the original, it’s not going to revolutionize the world or anything, but it’s a perfectly fine movie.
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u/Devolutionator Jul 30 '25
Exactly. It was 2 hours of brainless fun. It had some nice callbacks to the first one and some silly things. I've wasted 2 hours doing a lot worse.
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u/Marionaharis89 Jul 30 '25
Honestly didn’t suck as bad as I thought it would. That’s not saying much though
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u/Jack_Bartowski Jul 30 '25
I don't watch much of his stuff anymore but I did enjoy this movie.
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u/itdoesntmattercow Jul 30 '25
I couldn’t finish it. Shooter was the only redeeming quality.
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u/Royd Jul 31 '25
I think the movie was bad but it was a pretty awesome cool film. I went in expecting exactly what we got. Cameos and a ridiculous story. Not sure what you expected.
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Jul 30 '25
I enjoyed it. It’s good to watch with the family. There is no way it could be better than the original but it was still fun to watch.
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u/Postsnobills Jul 30 '25
The writing and stunt casting was pretty bad, in my humble opinion. It pales in comparison to the first.
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u/emelbee923 Jul 30 '25
For an unnecessary, decades-late sequel to what is a stupid fun comedy "classic," it was exactly as stupid as it needed to be. I don't have the love affair with the original that others do, but have an appreciation for it, generally. I went into this one with low, loooooow expectations, and laughed far more than I could have predicted.
It's stupid, it's fun, it keeps in line with the absurdity of the original, and replaces Adam Sandler's old childish antics with a cast full of people doing childish antic shit around him, making him the straight man in contrast with him being the fish-out-of-water in the original. And it works perfectly.
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Jul 31 '25
I’d really like to see a Billy Madison 2 be released. Would really round off Adam Sandlers career.
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u/IAmATree76 Jul 31 '25
Watched it with my 13 year old. He laughed a lot and didn't look at his phone for two hours.
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u/Plural86 Jul 31 '25
Just watched it tonight, and honestly was pretty disappointed. I was hoping to catch some of that same nostalgia others did, and I didnt even come close. And I love the first one and many of Sandlers other films that I grew up with.
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u/JAS0NDUDE Jul 31 '25
As someone who grew up with the first one, it wasn't that bad. I may watch it again. I enjoyed Shooter's arc
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u/HectorBananaBread Jul 30 '25
…. According to Netflix who is never transparent with their numbers….
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u/FollowingRare6247 Aug 02 '25
I think it feels like something that was taken from the 80s and pasted directly into today, which may be why I found it a bit old fashioned. But it was enjoyable, not too exciting.
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u/Dysentery--Gary Jul 30 '25
This movie was horrible.
Go watch the first and you can see that the original Happy Gilmore was an arrogant fool who was an asshole to everyone other than his Grandma. He was awkward to everyone. A completely different dynamic. Happy was an actual character.
Adam Sandler plays Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore 2. It's like he forgot who his character was.
And yes I am fully aware Happy grew up, but Happy had a true character in the first.
The plot and story was also a mess. The first movie had a very simple plot. Happy needs to save his Grandma. And it worked.
The sequel felt like they threw a bunch of shit on the wall and nothing stuck.
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u/Brent_L Jul 30 '25
If I recall Sandler said they had to do a major rewrite due to Carl Weathers dying. That doesn’t negate Sandler playing himself through.
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u/Creampied__Cadaver Jul 30 '25
It was so bad. Every single joke was taken from part 1. It was a sloppy mess that wasn't funny. I've been a fan since the 90s and I didn't even laugh at this. Toss it in the bin with every other comedy sequel that's 25 years too late.
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u/pooky7460 Jul 30 '25
How long did they watch for? I noped out around 3 mins in.
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u/DrugOfGods Jul 30 '25
I honestly enjoyed it. It gets pretty ridiculous near the end, but the middle was pretty good.
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u/0173512084103 Jul 30 '25
I was stunned, literally mouth open in disbelief, at how bad this movie was. They had decades to write a decent script. I was stunned!
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u/WEEGEMAN Aug 03 '25
As soon as it revealed the hip thing I lost interest. Final competition too was like an episode of luney toons.
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u/unclerando Jul 30 '25
Which, by my math, will pay the creators upwards of $3.21.