Adam Sandler in the Netflix suite for fans only

You might be tempted to review the 1996 comedy by Adam Sandler HAPPY Gilmore Before taking his long late suite on Netflix, but there is really no need. There are so many clips of his predecessor that even those who have never seen the original film will have no trouble catching up. Add to that the many original artists repeating their roles, constant reminders and non-stop nostalgia, and the result is less a continuation than an exercise in fans. If you look Happy Gilmore 2 At home, do not be surprised if some of the actors present themselves at your door offering signed photos for costs.

Yes, it’s been 29 years since the first film, but given its constant presence on cable and streaming, it is surprising that the rehearsal of the scriptwriters Sandler and Tim Herlihy felt the need to provide so many reminders. But then again, Sandler has always proven to be able to give his audience what they want. Like the first film, the suite (made by Kyle Newacheck) is moronic, without spirit and tirelessly. That’s to say, HAPPY Gilmore Fans will love it.

While the story begins, Happy is all stranded, lost in an alcoholic mist after having accidentally killed his beloved wife Virginia with a wandering golf ball (Julie Bowen intelligently renounces the procedure after a few minutes, her character reappearing only periodically as a ghost). He lost his house, he is mowing and he works a subordinate work in a supermarket, which will not pay for the expensive tuition fees of his daughter comes to a Paris ballet academy. (She played by Sandler’s daughter, Sunny, continuing her penchant for friends and family members in her films.)

So, like the former golfer John Daly, who lives in his garage, underlines, there is nothing else for Happy to Way, but to return to golf. The return to links turns out to be humiliating, because his first time on the course with foreigners (played by Eric Andre and Margaret Qualley) is disastrous. But he ended up having fun after having attended a support group for “Alkies” led by the old ordered retirement home (Ben Stiller, succeeding in a way not to be funny).

Encouraged by other veteran golfers – the film presents cameos of so many well -known players that should be shown on ESPN, not Netflix – Happy, who still suffers from anger management problems, enters the circuit. Except that his competition this time is not the McGavin shooter, his sworn enemy of the first film, but rather a group of finale called Maxi Golf, a new bizarre concept featuring embellishments and show biz golfers who have been surgically improved to improve their banish. (His CEO is played by Benny Safdie, who, with his brother Josh, directed Uncoupled gemsA film that has demonstrated the real Sandler actor chops. Here, the talented actor / filmmaker is reduced to an executed gag in the course of execution involving the bad breath of his character.)

Speaking of Shooter McGavin, he fortunately reappears in the glorious form of Christopher McDonald, as if you had a doubt. Released from the psychiatric institution in which it has been confined since the events of the previous film, Shooter ends like an ally of Happy, but not before the two do in a cemetery filled with tombstones sporting the names of characters now deceased (including Bob Barker, whose fight with Sandler in the first film has become emblematic).

CHUBBS Peterson by Carl Weathers was also to return to the death of the actor last year. So, this film presents the son of the character Slim Peterson (Laverll Crawford), who, like his father, has a prosthetic hand which has the embarrassing propensity of falling.

And it’s okay, with almost every minute of the film with a reference to the original in one form or another. All this seems extremely lazy and indulgent, in particular Sandler’s trend to launch almost all those with whom he worked or even encountered. The cameos here are so bulky that you need a cheat sheet to follow, although most of them barely make an impression.

Sandler walks lazily in the film watching, as a character describes it, as someone who “divorced four seconds ago”. Fortunately, McDonald is on site to give the procedure real madness. More surprisingly, Bad Bunny turns out to be completely endearing and very funny, as a busboy that Happy hires like his shopping cart. Although it is unlikely that anyone who had the Puerto Rican superstar style a naked torso travis with honey, as he does here, on their cinematographic bingo card.

Apart from an executed gag, revolving around Happy’s use of each possible object as a container of alcohol, the main humor of the film implies that people are painfully struck by golf balls. As the film ends and you have been attacked by a tired gag after the other, you will know exactly what they feel.