The long-pined-for sequel to the 1996 golf world comedy that established Adam Sandler as a reliable comic filmmaker is actually very good...All we need now is Billy Madison 2. Let us pray.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2025

"Gilmore 2” is everything you’d want in a sequel to the Sandler classic, as well as a few things you can do without.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Jul 31, 2025

There are laughs to be had, here and there; the good news is, the sequel isn’t terrible. It’s just not anything special, nothing with the spark of the original.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

Like the original movie, this isn’t super funny, unless burping, farting and people being hit in the groin with golf balls is your thing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 30, 2025

The story line could have been so much better. In one word it was ‘witless’.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 30, 2025

While coming nowhere near the heights and ingenuity of its predecessor, Happy Gilmore 2 is still a blast, with every cameo tuned directly into Sandler's comedic frequency.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

Takes a page from some of the worst sequels in recent memory.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

More a two-hour exercise in fan service, nostalgia and friends-and-family partying than a real movie, but die-hard fans will probably eat it up; others are likely to find it insufferable.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 30, 2025

Happy Gilmore 2 is perhaps the most autopilot version of an “Adam Sandler” comedy. It’s okay to pass the time with, sure. When all is said and done, however, there’s going to be more shrugs than laughs had.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 30, 2025

If it has any worth at all, Happy Gilmore 2 will at least be irrefutable proof that, more often than not, the humor we loved decades ago will age.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Clearly made by and for the Netflix algorithm, with a parade of celebrity cameos tossed in to ensure that second-screen viewers look up from their phones every so often.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

This movie is an astonishing feat of booking, a real master class of getting famous people to answer a producer’s calls. It’s just not a satisfying follow-up to one of the most enjoyable movies of Sandler’s career.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

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. It’s a cameo clog instead, and as a sports comedy misses the green entirely.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

A surprising and unlikely above-par revelation, this “Happy” beats the cover off the old ball while notching a few new spins and a dizzying array of hip cameos.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 29, 2025

Sandler’s sequel to his hole-in-one comedy is an unfortunate slice into the sand.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 29, 2025

Rather than aim for the flagstick, “Happy Gilmore 2” seems all too content to lay up in search of one gimme putt after another.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 29, 2025

This isn’t a sequel we necessarily needed, but it is done with the kind of gusto that defines its audience.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Happy Gilmore 2’s issues are, mostly, your standard Netflix-movie ones, which is to say that it feels haphazardly made, like it’s just aiming to be good enough.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

A movie that really doesn't justify its own existence.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2025

Happy Gilmore 2, for all its faults, still proves to be a generally likable and vaguely moving effort, one that showcases that Sandler knows how to get a birdie, even when the odds are against him and everyone is expecting him to lose.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 29, 2025