Skip Bayless offers brutal Happy Gilmore 2 verdict | Golf News

Skip Bayless has delivered a brutal takedown of ‘Happy Gilmore 2’ after being left totally “offended” by the sports activities comedy sequel. Adam Sandler’s beloved character made his comeback practically 30 years after the unique film debuted, thrilling golf fanatics as the Hollywood icon assembled an spectacular roster of superstar cameos for the eagerly awaited follow-up.

The solid featured PGA Tour champions Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, though their appearances apparently failed to win over sure audiences, with quite a few critics slamming it as “the worst movie I’ve seen in a long time” following its Netflix debut.

One disgruntled viewer expressed their frustration on X, declaring, “Okay 5 minutes into Happy Gilmore 2 and I’m already disappointed”, while another individual commented, “Baw gawd, Happy Gilmore 2 was awful.”

The sports activities pundit has now revealed his ideas on the manufacturing, with Bayless utilizing his eponymous program this weekend to ship a withering evaluation of what he witnessed. In an 11-minute video posted to his X profile, Bayless explained he discovered portrayals of Happy’s 4 youngsters and John Daly, whose character resides in his storage, fully humorless, while he criticized {golfing} icons like Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino for collaborating in what he considers sacrilegious mockery. 

Overall, he discovered it excruciating to watch with hardly any first rate laughs, making his emotions crystal clear in his scathing review of the Netflix film, which featured a caption stating: “I cannot stress to you how offended I was by ‘Happy Gilmore 2.’

Bayless started: “I just don’t get the appeal of this character that Adam created and performs. This character is something but completely happy. And I do not get this script’s scathing assault on a recreation I so deeply love and honor and respect.

(*2*)And at the rotten core of 1 and 2 is Adam Sandler’s character – this bitter, foul sociopath who’s always a hair set off away from committing felony assault on anybody who crosses his path, crosses him. That’s humorous? Not to me.

“In Happy 2, or maybe I should call it ‘Unhappy 2’, Happy Gilmore has four psycho hooligans for sons, all highly capable of stabbing each other in the eye with a fork at the dinner table. And that’s funny? I’m sorry, not to me.”

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Bayless then took purpose at followers who cherished the unique film, arguing that producing a follow-up was the only methodology to persuade “the dumb and dumber crowd” to sit through a “golf movie.”

It was undoubtedly a brutal evaluation from the 73-year-old, who continued by attributing his behavior of taking golf “way too seriously” as the explanation behind his harsh perspective, though he emphasised that he could not stand how the film ridiculed the game.