Happy Gilmore 2 may not live up to the razor-sharp cult classic status of its predecessor but offers a unique blend of warmhearted sentiment and self-aware silliness. It wrestles earnestly with themes of grief and perseverance while indulging in the kind of over-the-top celebrity cameos and callbacks that Sandler aficionados crave.
I didn’t care for it. Like any other 20 years later sequel, it just couldn’t capture the magic of the original and seemed like a hamfisted attempt to make a sequel when it clearly didn’t need one. All the CGI and goofy courses were annoying too.