Sandler co-wrote Happy Gilmore 2 and it’s clear he’s putting a lot of his own perspective into the movie. It’s a story about a former icon who is a beaten down, alcoholic mess surrounded by absent friends. Sandler’s aware of his age and seems to be injecting a cognizant sense of real mortality into the story of Happy Gilmore.

Adam Sandler didn’t hit all of Happy Gilmore’s shots in recently released “Happy Gilmore 2.” Hunter Mahan hit some, too. The 43-year-old Mahan, a six-time winner on the PGA Tour, served as Sandler’s golf swing double in the film,

Netflix has just released Happy Gilmore 2, but whether it's actually going to be worth watching or not is an open question.

Bowen reprises her character, Virginia Venit, in the comedy classic's second installment. Within the first four minutes of the film, Venit — who's since married Happy, welcomed five kids together and started a family — gets killed off, a tragedy caused by her husband.

The fun doesn't end with the final scene in 'Happy Gilmore 2' — there's also a mid-credits scene that acts as a sort of epilogue to the comedy. Here's what happens.

Happy Gilmore 2 is the funniest movie of the year so far by default, if only because no other movies really try to go for laugh-a-minute comedy like this any longer. The new Naked Gun movie will surely challenge it, but why can't the audiences of today get their own Happy Gilmores and Frank Drebins to cherish anew?

When we meet Happy after all these years, he's in sorry shape. He's an alcoholic, using booze to numb the guilt and grief of Virginia's death. But as the Happy Gilmore 2 trailer shows, he decides to sober up and get back to golfing in order to help his beloved daughter Vienna go abroad to ballet school.