Happy Gilmore 2 has unsurprisingly given Netflix a major viewership victory. The sequel to Adam Sandler's beloved 1996 golf comedy began streaming on Friday. Fans old and new have flocked to watch the movie.

The reviews on "Happy Gilmore 2" are mixed. The results are not.

Though I did enjoy some of the callbacks, jokes, silly references, and the show-stealing performance by a certain bad boy of golf, there was something about these homages that turned me off and took me out of the movie. In fact, I was quite annoyed…

The New Jersey roots of Adam Sandler's new movie "Happy Gilmore 2" gives a sense of how productions at Netflix Fort Monmouth will boost the Shore.

Cody Rhodes could have been part of Happy Gilmore 2 if everything went according to plan. One of the biggest movies to have premiered last weekend was the Netflix film, Happy Gilmore 2. This movie is the sequel to the 1996 film Happy Gilmore.

Adam Sandler’s oafish pro golfer is back on screen for the first time in nearly 30 years, in a new movie that follows the titular Happy Gilmore as he attempts to get back in the game and raise his five kids after the death of wife Virginia (Julie Bowen) in a hurtling golf ball accident.

There is a Happy Gilmore 2 mid-credits scene, after the initial cast credits roll. In the Happy Gilmore 2 mid-credits scene, a news segment reveals that Maxi Golf has been shut down, after a recall of its branded energy drink, which was found to cause health problems, including severe bad breath.

"Happy Gilmore 2" director Kyle Newacheck defended the decision to kill off Virginia, telling /Film: "There's always a concern when you're playing with that type of darkness. But I don't know, I was never really concerned because it is the driving force [of the film]. If you pull that out, then what do you have? You don't have anything real."