'Happy Gilmore 2' Is Here After 29 Years, With Trailer & Release Date
Fans who have waited decades for the Adam Sandler sequel Happy Gilmore 2 won't have to wait much longer.
Netflix Tudum 2025 was a major live event watched with anticipation by critics and fans on May 31 because the streaming giant often delivers big news about popular series and movies.
This year's live event didn't disappoint, and one of the big reveals dealt with Happy Gilmore 2. It's been almost 30 years, believe it or not, since Sandler played the comedic accidental golfer.
The first Happy Gilmore movie, which was released in 1996, featured Sandler as a former hockey player who decides to become a golfer to help his grandmother save her home, with hilarious and successful results.
The Happy Gilmore 2 movie, which is being released by Netflix, now has an official release date and trailer. Fans expressed excitement on social media. "Okay, that looks funny," wrote one. "Dude is 15+ years late with that sequel," wrote another man.
"Summer just got happy-er. Adam Sandler stars in Happy Gilmore 2 arriving July 25 #TUDUM," Netflix announced.
Netflix also released a lengthy official trailer via its X page.
"My name is Happy Gilmore. Thirty years ago, I decided to give golf a try," Sandler says at the beginning of the trailer.
Summer just got happy-er. Adam Sandler stars in Happy Gilmore 2 arriving July 25 #TUDUM pic.twitter.com/lEHgAN5J3H
— Netflix Tudum (@NetflixTudum) June 1, 2025
The trailer reveals that Happy Gilmore gets back into the game of golf because he needs $300,000 to put his daughter through ballet school. He drives off in a broken-down car.
“Happy Gilmore is breaking in yet another caddie he just met,” the trailer reveals.
It shows him golfing. “Everyone is talking about the comeback kid, Happy Gilmore,” a television announcer says in the trailer.
“Remember the happy place I went to. You go to yours," Sandler says in it.
"It’s been almost 30 years since we last saw Happy Gilmore, the long-driving hero who won the Tour Championship in 1996. Now we finally get to catch up with him in a new sequel that comes to Netflix July 25," Netflix wrote.
Netflix also gave details on the Happy Gilmore 2 cast, writing, "Joining the film alongside Sandler are original Happy Gilmore stars Julie Bowen, Ben Stiller, and Christopher McDonald and brand-new co-star Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (aka Bad Bunny), daughters Sadie and Sunny Sandler, and Blake Clark."
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