Happy Gilmore 2

Spoiler coming soon…The film opens with Happy Gilmore (Adam Sandler) recounting how he got to where he is now. He started off as a wannabe hockey player whose attitude and aggression got him into trouble, before becoming a professional superstar golfer. Happy married Virginia Venit (Julie Bowen) and had five kids with her – Gordy (Maxwell Jacob Friedman), Wayne (Ethan Cutkosky), Bobby (Philip Fine Schneider), Terry (Conor Sherry), and Vienna (Sunny Sandler) – and was living a great life. Then came a tournament in 2014 when Happy accidentally killed Virginia with a golf ball. Out of guilt, Happy gave up golf and became an alcoholic. Making things worse for Happy is the loss of his grandmother and her house after going broke, leaving him a single father to five children. Happy now works at a grocery store and uses anything he can find as a flask, living with Vienna near John Daly (who is seen here as a bum) while the boys have found their own place. He is approached by Frank Manatee (Benny Safdie), a tech bro CEO of Maxi Energy Drink with rancid breath. He wants Happy to join his new golf league, Maxi Golf, as the sport as it is appears “boring and old” for Frank. Happy asks a coworker to turn off the security cameras before dumping Frank into a lobster tank after he makes a comment about Virginia. Vienna has taken up a passion for dancing, and her teacher Monica (Jackie Sandler) recommends Happy a dancing school in Paris, but it costs $75K a year. Happy’s sons have taken up regular jobs (mostly to goof off) to help support the family, while Vienna can see that the stress of staying afloat, plus the loss of Virginia, has weighed heavily on her dad. In his dreams,

Happy goes to his “happy place”, where he still sees Virginia trying to encourage him, even though he blames himself for what happened to her. Happy decides to get back in the game to raise money for Vienna’s school. He starts off in a minor game with three golf course regulars – Sally (Margaret Qualley), Steiner (Eric Andre), and Fitzy (Martin Herlihy) – who do not immediately recognize the disheveled Happy. After several rounds of doing poorly, he remembers the words of his mentor, Chubbs Peterson (“It’s all in the hips”), and Happy delivers an incredible swing, impressing the other three. Happy seems to be getting into it again until he is drunkenly riding a golf cart with Steiner and crashes into another one with Sally and Fitzy, injuring everyone and getting Happy arrested. At the Westford State Mental Hospital, Happy’s longtime nemesis, Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald), has been locked up for the last 30 years. He is at a parole hearing to try and prove that he’s a changed man, but the mere mention of Happy sends Shooter into a tirade, ruining his chances of getting released. Happy is fired from his job and taken to court. The charges against him are dropped on the condition that he attends a radical alcohol treatment program. He befriends several people there, including a teenager named Charlotte (Sadie Sandler), but Happy is dismayed to find that the man in charge of the program is Hal L. (Ben Stiller), the psychotic orderly who previously abused Happy’s grandmother. He mostly uses the program to get the other alcoholics, mainly Charlotte, to do his chores for him. Frank starts to make the rounds with several podcasters (Bobby Lee, Andrew Santino, Alix Earle, etc) to promote Maxi Golf as a “reimagining” of the sport. Meanwhile, Happy

works on his sobriety and tries to train to get himself back into golfing. Happy later goes to a golf event held by Doug Thompson (Dennis Dugan), president of the Tour Championship. Happy also runs into other golf pros who are not happy with Maxi Golf coming about. Happy suggests that they create a match between the Maxi Golf team and the “regular” golf team. Doug agrees to the idea, leading to everyone cheering. Happy also notices a busboy, Oscar (Bad Bunny), being bullied by a big waiter (Travis Kelce) and getting fired by him. Happy takes Oscar on as his caddie. In his next round of golf, Happy learns that he is up against Will Zalatoris, who happens to be the caddie he abused when he originally started out (the one he choked out), and Will has had a grudge against Happy since then. Happy updates his “happy place” to help get him in the groove, and he beats Will, who ends up choking out his own caddie. He even gets Oscar to go to his happy place (feeding the jerk waiter to a bear) so he can help Happy. However, when Happy starts to think about Virginia, he gets drunk again and ends up placing 6th. Frank gets Shooter released from the mental hospital to help him in part of his new scheme. After treating Shooter to some luxuries he’s missed, Frank tells Shooter about an old golfer named Ben Daggett (Nick Swardson), who once got a shoe stuck up his ass, and the result caused his iliolumbar ligament to be severed, which made Daggett swing farther than anyone since he could move his hips back even further. One of Frank’s new players, Billy Jenkins (Haley Joel Osment), has had a procedure to sever the ligament and improve

his golf swing, along with other members of Maxi Golf. Shooter is disgusted by the idea of partaking in such a procedure, and he throws scalding hot coffee in Frank’s face before fleeing. Happy and Shooter run into each other at the cemetery as Happy is visiting Virginia’s grave. The two get into a brawl before Shooter tells Happy what Frank is planning to do with Maxi Golf players. The former enemies join forces to take them down. The two go back to Happy’s house with his kids, where they meet with a lawyer. Happy won $496,000 from his 6th place win, but the Tour is fining him $500K for bad behavior, meaning he lost $4000. Seeing her dad desperate, Vienna gives him someone to call. Happy goes to meet with Slim Peterson (Lavell Crawford), son of Chubbs, and also sporting his own wooden hand. Although Happy blames himself for Chubbs’s death, Slim has grown to forgive Happy and agrees to help him (even though Happy also breaks the fingers on his hand). They team up with Shooter to form the “regular” golf team, which includes Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, and Scottie Scheffler. The men practice by using Oscar’s cousin Esteban (Marcello Hernandez) as a target. Frank also makes one last attempt with Billy to get Happy to join them, but he refuses and once again comments on Frank’s foul breath. Happy’s kids see him off as he gets ready for the big tournament. Everyone that’s shown up throughout the movie tunes in and watches, from the alcoholics group, to the patients at Shooter’s mental hospital. The Maxi Golf team consists of Billy, Harley (Oliver Hudson), Flex (Becky Lynch), 8-Ball (Reggie Bush), and Screech (Fernando Marrero). Scheffler is disqualified early for decking Harley in the face for taunting

him. The Maxi Golfers utilize their hip alterations to dominate in the game, but Happy taps into his inner rage to help give him an edge. Frank then deploys Donald Jr (Eminem), son of the “Jackass!” guy that originally taunted Happy, to start throwing Happy off his game. The Gilmore boys then grab Donald Jr and toss him into a lake full of gators. The teams go through a bunch of elaborate courses, and Koepka gets injured during a snow-themed course. Happy has Shooter step in as a substitute, even though he is uncertain about playing again after so long. Happy gives his once-rival some words of encouragement, and Shooter is able to get a good shot in, leading both teams in a tie. Happy and Billy then face off on the last hole, but Frank has made it so that someone has to stand on a platform to give the putter a chance to hit the ball into the hole. Billy and his caddie lose their shot, so Happy and Oscar go up after Happy makes a deal with Frank that, if Happy loses, he will join Maxi Golf, but if he wins, Frank has to quit the program, pay for Vienna’s school, buy back Happy’s grandmother’s house, and buy a restaurant for Oscar. After an intense round, Oscar manages to help Happy get the ball in the hole, allowing the regular golfers to win. Everybody cheers for Happy. Happy returns to celebrate several months of sobriety. When Hal tries to diminish his accomplishments, Charlotte then reveals that she ratted Hal out to the feds for his many crimes. Hal then runs out into the streets while a whole mob chases him and later beats him up. Happy later brings Vienna to the airport so she can start attending

her dance school, and he promises to rejoin the family after competing in the British Open. Before Happy goes home, he looks up to the sky to see several dead friends like Chubbs, followed by Virginia, who can see that Happy is back to his old self. Happy tries to drive home, but his new electric car hasn’t been charged, so he has to walk home. During the credits, a new report reveals that Frank had to go into hiding after Maxi Energy Drink was shut down due to causing gingivitis and halitosis (the reason for his horrible breath). Scheffler is also still in prison for his assault, but he chooses to stay another night because they are having chicken tenders for dinner. Related Movies: *CUT TO THE CHASE*Brought to you by Legendary golfer Happy Gilmore was once at the top of his game and was a content family man with his wife Virginia and their five kids. After accidentally killing Virginia during a tournament, Happy gave up golfing and became an alcoholic. A tech bro CEO named Frank Manatee tries to get Happy to join his Maxi Golf league to "reimagine" the sport to not be so "boring", but Happy refuses. He must also attend an alcoholic treatment program after getting into a golf car accident, but it is run by Hal L, the twisted orderly who once abused Happy's grandmother. Happy decides to get back in the game to raise money for his daughter Vienna to go to an expensive dance school in Paris. After some training, he is able to get back into the groove of golf. Frank releases Happy's old nemesis, Shooter McGavin, from a mental hospital so he can join Maxi Golf and take down Happy. Shooter refuses when he learns that Frank's players have

had an alteration by severing a hip ligament to help them swing farther, so he ends up teaming up with Happy to form a team of "regular" golfers to stop Maxi Golf. On the day of the big tournament, Happy's team goes up against the Maxi Golf team. Despite some initial setbacks, both teams end up in a tie, with some help from Shooter joining the game. In the last round, Happy and his caddie Oscar must get the ball into a complicated hole after making a deal with Frank depending on who wins. With Oscar's help, Happy gets the ball in the hole and wins everything, ruining Frank and his company. Vienna gets to go to her dance school, Hal is arrested by the feds, and Happy is back to his old self again.