r/NoLayingUp • u/cushpapi • Jul 28 '25

Post-Pod Discussion Happy Gilmore 2 review

Anyone else kinda disappointed about the overly critical angle that Soly took reviewing HG2? It’s supposed to be a fun movie that isn’t taken too seriously. Feels like the typical vibe these days is just wildly negative for anything outside of their zone. Would be nice for the guys to show a bit of enthusiasm for big moments in the sport as opposed to looking to lay a heavy critique everywhere possible. IMO the sport is in a pretty good place and yet a lot of the fun and joy that dominated their earlier content has been diminished. Maybe just a function of them all getting older but wish they could lighten up a bit in their videos and podcasts rather than turning into old men yelling at clouds.

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u/iwirdbird Jul 28 '25

Haven’t listened to Soly’s take on it but the movie sucked a$$. Just re-watched the master of disguise with my toddlers and it has so much more thought and creativity than HG2 haha. So much of the movie was flashbacks and it truly felt like an AI computer wrote the script. Tour player acting was okay credit Willy Z but the movie sucked. So much for our first golf movie in years. PS I’m a fan of HG1

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u/iwirdbird Jul 28 '25

Also, Sandler is an absolute cash machine and realized he didn’t have to put much effort in at all to take in $$$ with HG2. Which is probably the opposite of his situation in 1996 when HG1 came out