Confessions of a Streamaholic

I am a big lover of Adam Sandler movies, ‘Blended’ and ‘Just Go with It’ are firm favourites of mine that I watch over and over again. You always know what you are in for with an Adam Sandler film – lightheartedness and comedy. Sometimes there can we very odd or outlandish things that happen in these movies and let’s just say Happy Gilmore 2 is no different it was not what I expected.

A sequel is very difficult to get right and I think when you’ve waited so long to do one the story really needs to sell itself to make it remotely as good as the first movie. So in preparation for the new movie I did watch Happy Gilmore (1996) so I could remind myself of the original storyline and how I thought that was continued in the new movie.

The start of the new Happy Gilmore movie was not what I expected but I guess to make the rest of the movie make sense this is how it had to go. It does similarly follow the plot of the first money about needing to raise money for something which was a nice parallel. I had a lot of laughs at the random item’s Happy was using to drink from a cucumber, salt & pepper shaker, tv remote and a golf ball – whoever came up with that deserves a raise.

There were a lot of weird moments in this film to get to the end act and although it was funny I didn’t think the storyline in the sequel was as cohesive as the first movie was. In the original movie Happy finding a talent for golf as a failed hockey player made sense but the new alternative way to play golf in the new film I was not as much as a fan of.

I did however enjoy that they brought back Shooter McGavin, having Sandler’s wife and daughters being involved I thought was a sweet touch and of course, some of the usual faces you see in other Adam Sandler films appeared with cameo roles and I was pointing out where I recognised each one from. The star of the film was Oscar Mejías played by Bad Bunny he had some of the funniest moments so excited to see what he does in the upcoming release of ‘Caught Stealing’.

I thought the music in the second film could have been better, right of the bat with the original Happy Gilmore there was music something noticeable but watching the sequel I can’t say I heard much music and if there was it didn’t make much of an impact. What I can say about this movie though is with the advancement in technology some of the shots of the ball made for really great viewing, I’m unsure if this was CGI, animation or AI generated.

Overall, it was a fun, easy watch, not my favourite Adam Sandler film and not better the original but because Happy Gilmore has such iconic lines I can see the reason why they wanted to make a sequel to it. Worth a watch if you are a Sandler fan or just looking for something that doesn’t take a lot of brainpower to watch.