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HAPPY GILMORE 2

“Happy Gilmore Takes on Golf, Grief, and Sobriety”

Family Content: -2 Extreme caution for older teenagers and adults.

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What You Need To Know:

HAPPY GILMORE 2 on Netflix is a sequel to the beloved golf comedy HAPPY GILMORE, led by Adam Sandler. Happy isn’t doing well. After accidentally killing his wife with a stray golf ball, Happy vows never to golf again and starts drinking heavily. Happy learns his daughter is eligible to attend a Paris ballet school in Paris. So, Happy decides to get sober, pick up his clubs again and earn the money they need for tuition. Can Happy stay sober and earn the tuition money? 

 HAPPY GILMORE 2 is a fun follow-up to the first movie. It has funny, moving performances from Adam Sandler and his real-life daughter, Sunny. It also has some great cameos from comedy and sports stars. HAPPY GILMORE 2 has a strong moral worldview, with redemptive content. Many scenes promote strong family relationships, forgiveness and turning away from alcohol. Happy’s dedicated to being a good father. Meanwhile, his children love and support him. However, HAPPY GILMORE 2 has lots of foul language, comical violence, a few suggestive jokes, and issues of alcohol abuse. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution. 

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

  Strong moral worldview with some light redemptive content promotes family and forgiveness, title character is a devoted father and wants to do everything he can for his children, man’s children are just as supportive of him, children encourage father to return to golf and maintain his sobriety, father is forgiven by the son of a man he accidentally killed in the first movie who tells father there’s no sense holding on to that anger and hurt, title character forgives himself for accidentally killing his wife when he hit a wayward golf ball;

Foul Language:

  About 55 obscenities (including 14 “s” words), two GD profanities, three light profanities, and an obscene gesture;

Violence:

  Strong and light, often comic, violence with no blood includes title character, and his sons are prone to physical violence, there are multiple scenes showing them fighting one another and other people, alligators attack one character, characters get hit by golf balls and baseballs, and one person chokes his caddy when his golf game goes badly;

Sex:

  Several sexually suggestive jokes;

Nudity:

  Three scenes feature men without their shirts, four scenes with rear male nudity when man’s sons moon him twice and when another character doesn’t wear pants with his pajama top, and a younger version of man’s dead wife twice is shown wearing lingerie as man goes to his “happy place”;

Alcohol Use:

  Many scenes depict characters drinking, and Happy is an alcoholic but gets sober and attends support meetings, and, although he relapses at one point, Happy is committed to his sobriety and is supported by friends and family;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

  A character smokes a cigarette in one scene, but no drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

  CEO of an extreme golf league, and his golfers cheat (including changing the rules of a golf course) to beat title character and other golfers, and man’s friend is still very jealous of title hero’s success in the golf world, but the pair reconcile, and the friend teams up with hero to beat the golfers who are cheating. 

 

More Detail:

HAPPY GILMORE 2, streaming on Netflix,  is a sequel to the beloved golf comedy HAPPY GILMORE, led by Adam Sandler, who plays the titular golfer as he tries to make a comeback in the golf world, earn enough money to send his daughter to ballet school, and maintain his sobriety. HAPPY GILMORE 2 is a fun comedy with a strong moral worldview stressing family, forgiveness and changing your life for the better, but it has lots of foul language, comic violence and some suggestive jokes 

 HAPPY GILMORE 2 opens with a down-on-his-luck Happy. After dominating the golf world and having several children with his wife, Virginia, Happy’s life goes into a tailspin after he accidentally kills Virginia by hitting her with a golf ball. He vows to quit golfing, starts drinking heavily and loses the family home.   

 However, after he learns that his daughter Vienna is a good enough dancer to get into a ballet school in Paris, Happy decides to pick up his clubs again and make enough money to pay for her tuition. He begins training, but his golf skills don’t return immediately. After a few hiccups that land him in AA, Happy rededicates himself to sobriety and golf. 

  Happy’s newfound sobriety and training pay off well. He’s soon back in fighting shape, just in time to play in a match against the Maxi League, a new extreme golf league that threatens traditional golfing. 

 Happy and a crew of pro golfers agree to play in a match against the Maxi League golfers. However, in a pre-match tournament, Happy loses confidence, and he starts drinking again. He’s discouraged and disappointed in himself, but, with the help of his children and some old friends, Happy prepares to take on the Maxi team. 

 Some people count the original HAPPY GILMORE movie as their favorite Adam Sandler movie. HAPPY GILMORE 2 is an excellent follow-up to the classic 1996 comedy, with plenty of laughs, as well as lots of fun cameos from comedians, pro athletes, and other stars. There’s also plenty of heart. Sandler’s performance as someone struggling with both grief and alcohol abuse is moving. Also, his real-life daughter, Sunny, delivers a sweet performance as Vienna. 

 HAPPY GILMORE 2 has a strong moral worldview, with some redemptive elements. For example, the movie stresses family, sobriety and forgiveness. Happy is dedicated to being a good father while his children love and support him in both his golf comeback and his efforts to remain sober. However, the movie has lots of foul language, many scenes of comic violence, and some suggestive humor. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution.