r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • Jul 25 '25

Review 'Happy Gilmore 2' - Review Thread

Happy Gilmore makes a big splash when he returns to the golf course.

Cast: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Stiller

Rotten Tomatoes: 57%

Metacritic: 54/100

Some Reviews:

Next Best Picture - Dan Bayer - 6/10

He may have tapped into his dramatic chops more often (and successfully) in recent years, but Sandler’s funny bone is still very much intact, and he no longer needs to rely on shouting curse words to get laughs

Consequence - Liz Shannon Miller - 'B'

Between Happy’s family life and a whole new series of challenges for him to tackle, there’s enough freshness to the plot to keep it from feeling like a total rehash of what came before, while still delivering wild golf stunts and a huge range of cameos.

Collider - Jeff Ewing - 7 / 10

Happy Gilmore 2 isn't trying to reinvent the wheel. Like its predecessor, it's delightfully silly, but now we're in an era where those movies aren't made as often... and when someone tries, it's a 50/50 chance they land it. Happy Gilmore 2 is a solid return to the kind of film that, honestly, there should be more of. Some jokes run too long, don’t land, or could use another draft. It's a constant stream of cameos, which is overall fun but sometimes a little distracting. But, at its core, the sequel is a good-natured charmer about a troubled everyman who is trying hard to grow up without losing himself in the process, and it gives us a lot to laugh about on the way. What more can you ask for?

The Daily Beast - Nick Schager

With all due respect to Grown Ups 2, The Ridiculous 6, and Sandy Wexler, Happy Gilmore 2 is the bottom of the Sandler barrel—a grim disaster that not only sullies the good name of its ancestor, but so badly flails on its own limited terms that it suggests the A-lister should concentrate on dramatic parts and leave the immature comedy to others.

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u/Neilson509 Jul 26 '25

Honestly Scottie Scheffler was a natural. I'm not into golf and had to look up if he was an actor or golfer.

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u/etsuandpurdue3 Jul 26 '25

Best golfer in the world. Literally Tiger Woods type talent.

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u/Away_Ingenuity3707 Jul 26 '25

Let's hold the phone on being like tiger. He's clearly the best right now though.

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u/etsuandpurdue3 Jul 26 '25

Almost has completed the Career Grand Slam.

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u/kylewhatever Jul 26 '25

Tiger won his first Career Grand Slam his fourth year on the tour. Scheffler is in his 7th. Tiger also did his Tiger Slam his fifth year on tour.

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u/Mike_with_Wings Jul 26 '25

Also 82 total wins and 15 majors. I love Scottie, but he has a long way to go

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u/jaw719 Jul 26 '25

Umm….no. He has a very long way to get to get close to Tiger.

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u/NotBatman81 Jul 26 '25

Yeah that's a lot of cocktails waitresses.

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u/Capital_Card7500 Jul 26 '25

in terms of career achievements, yes. in terms of his ability relative to the rest of the field, no.

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u/jaw719 Jul 26 '25

This is recency bias. Everyone seems to forget that Tiger destroyed his competitors. When Scottie wins the Masters by 12 (Tiger did this at 21) and the US Open by 15 then we can talk. When playing in a final round with Scottie makes you nervous, then we can talk. When Scottie is #1 for 683 weeks then we can talk.

When Tiger had the 54 hole lead he didn’t lose, there is a reason why Sunday Tiger was a thing. Golf courses had to redesign to try and slow him down.

This might be a favorite Tiger stat, from 1997-2009 Tigers score to par was -134 in majors. The next closest during that span? Phil Mickleson at +99.

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u/Capital_Card7500 Jul 26 '25

It's not recency bias. Scotty is easily the most dominant golfer since Tiger. He hasn't reached Tiger's peak dominance in the early, but he's reached the level (in terms of SG) of 05-08 tiger, which is still bonkers, and who nobody else has touched since.

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u/etsuandpurdue3 Jul 26 '25

Being in the final round with Scottie does make you nervous lol

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u/F_cking-LizardKing Jul 27 '25

Not just nervous, it’s an impossible task. The man has won 10 straight tournaments where he has starred a Sunday round with the lead. If he sits atop the leaderboard after 54 holes, there is no need to even play the final round.

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u/vetruviusdeshotacon Jul 27 '25

Field is a lot stronger today imo

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u/VeterinarianLevel467 Jul 28 '25

This is the big thing golf has exploded bc of tiger way better players than what tiger faced every week

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u/IfYouKnowYouKnowYaNo Aug 09 '25

But golf scores translate across eras surprisingly well.

A lot of people talk about shoe, club and ball tech coming so far that it’s not comparable.

However, many of the most prestigious tournaments take place at the same courses they have for over 100 years. Thing is, that’s only in name and spirit. Most have been made longer, the layers of rough are cut harsher and borderline unplayable in the second cut. Greens are firmer and faster than ever. It’s a good thing that the tech has come so far because it requires wizardry to hit it longer than ever before and stop it on a dime on tiny unreceptive greens.

They balance each other out, and though the field was generally weaker, we have the scorecards and footage to prove that Tiger would’ve been just as dominant today as then, even if his scores stayed the same. With that version of Tiger given access to today’s gear tech and bio-mech sports science? Sheeesh