Happy Gilmore 2

Netflix (main catalog) 07/25/2025

Happy Gilmore 2

2025

Kyle Newacheck

Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Ben Safdie ...

4.9

1,688

Comedy

Comedy

Happy, now retired from professional golf, returns to the circuit not for glory, but to pay for his daughter Viena’s dance school.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jesse Hassenger AV Club	"Another indication that Sandler is still undertaking his longtime mission of making silly comfort-food comedies with the stealth seriousness of older age."
		Lewis Glazebrook Screen Rant	"The film has some elements that work, but not enough to overcome its gratuitous cameos, its need to be bigger, or its wasted nostalgia (...) Rating: 5 (out of 10)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A happy orgy of raucously well-executed Adam Sandler fan service. It’s a pointed exercise in nostalgia, but with a present-tense edge"
		Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Like the first film, the sequel (directed by Kyle Newacheck) proves moronic, witless and relentlessly vulgar. Which is to say, 'Happy Gilmore' fans will love it."
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"The follow-up isn’t as hilarious as the original. Who honestly expected it to be? And a good 20 minutes could have been trimmed. But '2' is warm and comfortable (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Jennifer Green Common Sense Media	Sandler and/or Gilmore fans should be pleased with this sequel, which includes characters and flashbacks from the original film and weaves in plenty of new ones as well (...) Puntuación: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Thomas Floyd The Washington Post	" this laugher is so preoccupied with trying to echo the first movie’s gags that it neglects to carve out an identity of its own (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Nick Schager The Daily Beast	"'Happy Gilmore 2′ May Be the Worst Sequel of All Time (...) a grim disaster that not only sullies the good name of its ancestor, but so badly flails on its own limited terms"
		Richard Roeper rogerebert.com	"'Happy Gilmore' makes par through the strength of its sheer stupid energy and the game efforts of Sandler and his 50 or so co-stars. It’s good to be back in that Happy Place. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Andrew Lawrence The Guardian	"Belated sequel to the 1996 comedy is unlikely to convert newcomers but there’s more than enough to entertain its cult fanbase (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Pete Hammond Deadline	"Fans who have waited a very long time for a second round with the angry but always watchable movie golf icon get a sweet payoff with Happy Gilmore 2.
		Ethan Anderton SlashFilm	"'Happy GIlmore 2' is a poor excuse for nostalgic comedy, and you'd have more fun getting a colonoscopy with a rake (...) Rating: 2 (out of 10)"
		Michael Ordoña The Wrap	"The vibe of the Netflix sequel to Sandler’s beloved gonzo sports comedy is older, nicer and in need of ibuprofen"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"The long-awaited sequel to one of Sandler's best-loved comedy hits isn't a hole in one, but its blend of wacky gags and wistful sadness (no, really) sinks some solid shots."
		Johnny Loftus Decider	"This aimless, only-occasionally-sorta-kinda-funny sequel to one of Adam Sandler’s career-making movies doesn’t do much of anything with the character, or really anything at all."
		Jeff Ewing Collider	"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. (...) Rating: 7 (out of 10)"
		Lena Wilson IGN	"Some of it is novel, some of it nostalgic, and some genuinely funny. The rest is just Sandler flexing his contacts list (...) Rating: 6 (out of 10)"
		David Fear Rolling Stone	"The Sandman's bad boy of the links returns, complete with callbacks, celebrity cameos, and enough fan service to choke a one-eyed alligator"
		Adam Graham Detroit News	"One of those Sandler projects that seems like the experience on set for Sandler's friends and family trumped whatever was happening in front of the cameras, and it certainly looks like the gang had fun making the movie"

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