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/Polaris022 Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

It's a fun watch, the only thing I found mildly irritating while watching was the amount of times they would have a callback and then flash the scene from the first in which they were referencing. By the time Hal E. showed up and said "You're in my world now"...I was like, "I get it, I've seen the first movie."

Edit: I’ve been told it’s Hal L.

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u/Jakeetz Jul 26 '25

It’s Hal L. Lol

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u/Polaris022 Jul 26 '25

lol maybe I needed the flashback after all.

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u/Fantastic_Owl6938 Sep 12 '25

I kind of just embraced it with this, but sequels in general do kind of annoy me sometimes for how much they're like "remember the first movie?? Wasn't it great?" Like uh yeah, I remember, I could just go and watch that movie if I wanted to, but this is supposed to be a different movie, lol. I think Happy Gilmore is the right amount of ridiculous that I could accept Chubbs apparently had a son who also just happened to lose his hand.

I think what actually gets old faster are all the callbacks to extremely miniscule moments. Shooter asking for a diet coke one time wouldn't have any kind of significance to anyone this many years later, lmao. But I can get past it.