What was the name of this Jewish golfer from the nineties with the anstrew temperament of a hockey player? Happy Goldberg? Happy Gudenstein? Skippy Goldenbaum? 29 years after Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) won his first championship, the participants of a TV games show can no longer be in its name. Since he fatally injured his wife Virginia (Julie Bowen) in an unfortunate golf surge and then retired from the sports shop, the former hope has been going down.
At the beginning of the exclusively produced for Netflix “Happy Gilmore 2“From” Murder Mystery “director Kyle Newacheck, Gilmore has deteriorated to a ducked alcoholic who hides his schnapps in the most stubborn places: a sip is deposited in his electric toothbrush, as well as in the remote control and a pepper spreader. Even the supermarket, in which he now gives a full -time shelves, is home to a cucumber in the vegetable department that can be screwed on and sucked out.
Even with almost 60, Adam Sandler or Happy Gilmore really want to know again!
In 1996 “Happy Gilmore” was a first highlight in Adam Sandler's career as a cinema player who, as an example, offered everything that made up for his parade role for a long time: namely that of a heat -headed man child who has to learn to become grown up and socially acceptable by channeling his uncontrolled impulses. Under fans of the actor, the film is still considered a possibly Sandler's best and most beloved (I also have probably not seen a film in my life more often). A sequel was long taken and ultimately failed because of the increasingly accumulating pressure to expect.
As a 58-year-old man, Adam Sandler no longer has the juvenile energy that has made him the most successful American comedy actor for years. A bearded team player with a sentimental look and hanging shoulders has taken the place of such an open and heart -hearted charming all -rounder and sole entertainer. As such, he now also knows when he has to step back in order to leave the scenes to others. As a producer for his company Happy Madison, he designs films for his friends and family, often supports their acting strengths rather than being in the foreground. For “Happy Gilmore 2”, this age -frequent groove proves to be a gift and, despite all the nostalgic back relegation, makes the film a worthy and consistently successful continuation.
How can you make gold more entertaining? With fire!
In order to enable his daughter Vienna (Sunny Sandler, the secret star of numerous Happy Madison productions for some time), and Happy Gilmore reluctantly drives back into the world of Pro Golf Championships. In the meantime, however, the time-honored sports institution itself is under modernization compulsory: With the maxi gold league, the new-rich businessman Frank Manatee (Benny Safdie) wants to establish an inflated alternative, in which the players are on prepared playing fields, icy, have to go through their golf balls.
He is the first locking carrot to win Gilmores old adversary shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), which he freed from a psychiatric clinic, into which the golf matches had originally brought him to “Happy Gilmore” decades ago. A combative comparison should clarify which league is more sustainable: five players each compete against each other. Among them is the Gilmore, which is only difficult to qualify …
“Happy Gilmore 2” is crammed up to the top with CAMEO appearances old away from Adam Sandler-including Ben Stiller.
As with the predecessor, Adam Sandler wrote the script together with Tim Herlihy, a lifelong creative partner since college days. They vary the gags that have become iconic and often cited sayings of the original. Gilmore's “Happy Place”, a mental retreat where he can get rid of his pent -up anger, gets an age -appropriate update: positive thoughts are no longer made up of full beer cübeln, but to a nurse who tells him that his cholesterol levels are okay again, as well as the underpants that seemed long illusory for him.
Even the numerous cameos, in this density and well-of-time, do not come to the pure show of well-known faces, but enrich the film with a variety of beautiful comedy miniatures, be it the football player (and Taylor swift boyfriend) Travis Kelce as a ran-rapid waiter or Latin-Rap-Weltstar Bad Bunny in the role of Gilmores underqualified Caddie recommends for a larger comedy career. As a legacy sequel, “Happy Gilmore 2” is a film that does not have to prove anything – almost what is commonly called in sports. Obviously, however, he is also a heart project, which succeeds in dignity and imaginative a bridge to the beginning of a decades of career: Adam Sandler still fits the oversized hockey jersey.
Conclusion: With “Happy Gilmore 2”, Adam Sandler and director Kyle Newacheck succeeds in a balancing act that many so-called legacy sequels try: Instead of relying on nostalgic quotes and well-known sayings alone, the film continues to develop its main character in a credible and touching way-from the horny slapstick golfer to a sentimental family. All of this may be a bit more set and sentimental than in 1996 – but that is exactly the attraction of this late continuation.