Watched it on Netflix last Friday. I found it mildly amusing. Typical Sandler humor, with a few interesting characters (I liked the four golf pros that were in it). After a long week with the wife out for the night (she would not appreciate the humor type) it was a good watch for me.

Anyone else watched it? Your thoughts?

I was an original Happy Gilmore fan and had some hopes for this one which fell majorly short. I can't believe grown adults were paid to make this movie.

I watched it over the weekend with some friends, but only made it halfway through due to being tired. I'm not a big fan of Sandler, and this isn't really my kind of humor. But I will say it was better than I thought it would be. I have not seen the first one.

I’ve heard it stinks from several people. Oh sure it’s full of fan service and Easter eggs but overall it’s not good.

I really dislike this new trend of making sequels 30 years later, it’s all clearly a money grab for people seeking nostalgia

It's a cheap nostalgia cash-grab like Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F and Coming 2 America. As long as you're prepared for that going in, then it's OK.

Nostalgia is something that's best when it happens naturally & organically vs being hit over the head w/ it. If you hear a song that triggers a happy memory for you, that's organic. If your wife has to nudge you and remind you that, "This is the song we danced to at our wedding, remember?," and if you don't, I'm going to be mad that it doesn't have the significance to you that it does to me, then that's hitting you over the head.

HG2 is filled w/ those. It doesn't trust the viewer to remember what happened in HG1, so it constantly plays flashbacks from the first movie to set up a gag for the viewer. Or worse, if you haven't seen HG1, then w/o the flashback, the joke falls flat.

I've read a lot of reviews that the first half is a lot better than the second half. I agree, and I think that partially has to do w/ Carl Weathers dying while the writers were writing the script. They originally wanted Chubbs to more involved in it.

The plot is actually decent & believable and more than an excuse to string jokes together. Happy spirals into depression & bankruptcy after the death of his wife and battles alcoholism. If you've seen Reign Over Me or Hustle, this is something Sandler does very well.

I found it enjoyable. Just a suspense of reality comedy. I laughed out loud a few times. Better than a lot of the stuff streaming these days.

Using actual pro golfers, PGA and LIV, made this work for me. Sandler movies are mostly a 13 year old's wet dream and this one works about as well as you'd hope. No expectations, pleasantly surprised.

The movie is jam-packed w/ current & former professional golfers as well as pro athletes from other sports, e.g., Travis Kelce, Reggie Bush, Kelsey Plum. You can tell they all wanted to be there and had a lot of fun.

In that sense, it reminds me a little of Blues Brothers 2000. In the climax, the film is packed to the gills w/ Blues legends doing their thing. If you're a Blues fan, it's enough to make to forgive how bad the rest of the film is.

I enjoyed it for what it is. Probably won’t need to watch again (unlike the original) but it was a fun time waste.

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Originally posted by iron chef:
The movie is jam-packed w/ current & former professional golfers as well as pro athletes from other sports, e.g., Travis Kelce, Reggie Bush, Kelsey Plum. You can tell they all wanted to be there and had a lot of fun.

In that sense, it reminds me a little of Blues Brothers 2000. In the climax, the film is packed to the gills w/ Blues legends doing their thing. If you're a Blues fan, it's enough to make to forgive how bad the rest of the film is.

"How good could they be?"

I think the original is one of those "you kinda had to be there" sort of things. I hadn't seen it until a few nights ago, and mid-90's Adam Sandler being decidedly not my thing, found it tiresome to sit through, and only found myself laughing once, when Carl Weathers fell out of a window. It just caught me off guard.

I think my playing varsity golf for my highschool team just a few years after the film came out and having everyone around me endlessly pretend to be Adam Sandler and riffing on the character kinda put me off of it. I recall guys humping sand trap rakes and wondering what the fuck was wrong with them, so at least I have some social context for that bit of retardation now.

Anyways, I watched about half of the second one the other night and actually found myself laughing pretty hard a couple times. I'd say that so far, it's a more mature film, and funnier for it. Benefit of not having thirty years of nostalgia built up around the character and the story, I guess. Looking forward to finishing it probably tonight.

Honestly I had a pretty low bar for this one considering how much I love the original, and my general distaste for sequels. It was better than I expected/hoped, but a little too outlandish.

The cameos from the original made sense, others were just unnecessary or over the top. Like the T Kelce waiter character, made no sense and contributed nothing to the story. Same with Eminem as the Joe Flaherty (Jackass guy) son. Could’ve been a much better tribute than that dumb scene.

Overall I’d give it a 6.5/10. I still watch the original and laugh, this one I don’t regret seeing at all but also won’t be in a hurry to watch again.