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Adam Sandler has made a triumphant return to the tee after nearly 30 years, and evidently audiences have been keen to look at him swing a membership once more in any case this time. Sandler returns as one in all his best-loved characters within the sports activities comedy follow-up Completely happy Gilmore 2, which is proving to be a large success for Netflix, and has already damaged a serious streaming document. However the sequel shouldn’t be with out controversy.

Selecting up with Completely happy after almost three many years, the sequel finds the failed hockey player-turned-golf professional drowning in alcohol after, SPOILER ALERT, killing his spouse Virginia Venit ( Julie Bowen) with a rogue golf ball a number of years earlier. The choice to kill off such a serious character has confirmed divisive amongst critics and followers, with many discovering Completely happy Gilmore 2’s exploration of mortality and grief off-putting, whereas others have loved Sandler’s push in direction of these themes.

Completely happy Gilmore 2 director Kyle Newacheck has since defended the choice to kill off Virginia, revealing to SlashFilm that the “darkness” is what drew him to the mission within the first place.

“There’s at all times a priority once you’re taking part in with that sort of darkness. However I don’t know, I used to be by no means actually involved as a result of it’s the driving pressure [of the film]. In the event you pull that out, then what do you have got? You don’t have something actual.

After I first learn the screenplay, [Virginia’s death is] like web page 5, and I used to be glued when that occurred. So I knew what that feeling felt like, and I knew that folks may recover from it. There’s darkness within the first one. There’s actual darkish humor. So I simply felt it [was] becoming.”

Whereas there’s certainly some darkish humor within the first Completely happy Gilmore, none of it comes wherever near being as unhappy as what happens within the follow-up. Was killing a beloved character, reminding everybody that a lot of the authentic forged are useless, and that sometime you’ll die too, actually the suitable route for the comedy sequel? “What they did to the GOAT Virginia Venit in Completely happy Gilmore 2 was nearly a deadly flaw within the film,” stated one consumer on X, with one other including, “Extraordinarily disenchanted with the choice to kill Virginia off.”

How Does Julie Bowen Really feel About Virginia Venit’s Demise?

For her half, returning star Julie Bowen had no subject with Virginia being killed off. “I’m going, ‘I don’t care. It’s nice. Completely happy can’t be glad,’” she stated whereas talking to Individuals, including:

“After I discovered that I used to be killed on web page 12, I began laughing. I used to be on trip with my household, and I had no wifi. I may barely learn this factor. I solely had my telephone, and I used to be like, ‘Am I seeing this proper’? And I used to be like, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m useless. And he kills me.’ Then I simply began laughing. I simply began laughing and laughing, and Adam was attempting to get by way of to me. I used to be on island with no wifi and barely any cell, and we lastly related.”

Directed by Kyle Newacheck, written by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler, and starring Sandler alongside Julie Bowen, Christopher McDonald, Benny Safdie, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Ben Stiller, and extra, Completely happy Gilmore 2 is now streaming on Netflix and has rapidly taken the #1 spot on each the worldwide and U.S. Prime 10.

Supply: SlashFilm, Individuals