The Bobby Bones Show - MOVIE MIKE: Which Dead Actor Would You Bring Back for One Final Movie? + Movie Review: Bring Her Back + 3 Red Flags About Happy Gilmore 2

Episode Date: June 14, 2025

MOVIE MIKE'S MOVIE PODCAST: The theme of this episode is Death and creepy rituals. Mike shares the top 5 actors he would bring back from the dead and what 1 movie he would want them to star in. In the Movie Review, Mike talks about A24’s Bring Her Back. It’s about a brother and sister who witness a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. Mike gives his reasoning why it is the horror movie of the year, how twin brothers went from YouTubers to directing bangers and how one of the actors job the part with ZERO acting experience.  In the Trailer Park, Mike shares his 3 Red Flags why Netflix’s Happy Gilmore 2 isn’t going to be good. It takes place 30 years after winning his first tour and retired golfer Happy Gilmore returns to the sport to pay to send Vienna to a ballet school.   New Episodes Every Monday! Watch on YouTube: @MikeDeestro Follow Mike on TikTok: @mikedeestro Follow Mike on Instagram: @mikedeestro Follow Mike on X: @mikedeestro Follow Mike on Letterboxd: @mikedeestro   Email: [e-mail]  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The theme of this week's episode is death and crazy rituals. Because in the movie review, I'll be talking about Bring Her Back, which is a new horror movie in theaters, about a brother and sister who witnessed a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. It is creepy. It is disturbing. And in the trailer park, I'm feeling excited but also heavy. hesitant about the new Happy Gilmore sequel coming out next month. I have my three red flags on why I think it's not going to be a good movie.

So thank you for being here. Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday morning movie crew. And now, let's talk movies. From the Nashville podcast network, this is Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. The question is, if you could bring back one dead actor to star in one final movie, who's it going to be? How did I end up on this question?

well, I was watching the Happy Gilmore 2 trailer, and out of all those cameos, I thought, you know who would be perfect in this movie that is no longer with us, the one and only Chris Farley. And I started thinking about all of these actors that we lost too soon. And if I could only bring back one, who would I bring back and what movie would I have them star in? Because I have my top three that I want to discuss with you, and I have a lot of honorable mentions. So mainly, I just want to honor a lot of great actors. that we lost too soon. So who do I have in my top three? Well, that number three, because I just mentioned him, is Chris Farley. And what movie I would have him come back and star in. It has to be

Tommy Boy, too. What a great, I feel like the defining Chris Farley movie. I heard David Spade talking recently how they wanted to make a Tommy Boy, too. There was an idea behind it. Ultimately, it didn't work out. And now he would never do something like that with. out Chris Farley. The thing I did not realize about Chris Farley because he passed away in 1997. I was very young when that happened. But he died at age 33. The age I am at right now at the moment of recording this episode, that is when Chris Farley died. That is so young. In my head, he died when he was much older in his 40s. And whenever you're a kid and you see somebody in their 30s, they just seem so much older to you, which is weird to me now that a kid, my age,

in 1997 would have been six. So now to think of a six-year-old, seeing me be that old is a little bit like, oh, man, I'm old now. I don't feel old. But that is such a young age to die at that he is somebody, I believe, we just lost too soon. He had so much charisma, was also fighting so many demons. And sometimes, not always, but it is those people who make you laugh the hardest that are going through the most. And the more I think about it, how sad is it that you have to go through so much just to be funny sometimes? And that is exactly the life of Chris Farley because he was so over the top. He gave so much to every performance. He was a great physical comedian, even sometimes doing things that he didn't enjoy doing, but he knew they got to laugh.

I think one of those famous cases is the SNL skit he did with Patrick Sway, who we'll talk about later, where they were Chippendell's dancers, and the whole joke of that sketch was the fact that Chris Farley was a bigger guy. Being a Chippendell's dancer, I think that was credited as one of the sketches he regrets doing the most because it put him in a really dark place,

but he died in 1997 after a drug overdose of cocaine and morphine. His most memorable roles were what I just talked about, Tommy Boy, I think, was his defining role in 1995. My personal favorites as well were Black Sheep, Beverly Hills Ninja was such a great movie when I was a kid. He also had a great cameo in Billy Madison. Leaves behind a legacy of physical comedy genius and this infectious energy,

almost heroes, which I believe was the last film he ever did, is one that is underrated, him and Matthew Perry now both no longer with us. So he was one of those people that not only had such success on Saturday Night Live, but it transferred onto the big screen, even though a lot of those movies probably weren't well reviewed at the time, and now we look back on those and think, man, we were so lucky to get those from him. I also can't wait to see what happens with this biopic that is in development right now. Set to play him is Paul Walter Housa, who you might remember he played Richard Jewell back in 2019.

He's also a really funny actor and the perfect person to play him, in my opinion. But Chris Farley is in my top three that I'm trying to decide, have him come back from the dead to be in Tommy Boy 2. Also in my top three, I have Robin Williams. I would want him to come back for Jumanji 4. He did the original back in the 90s. And the franchise has really changed with all the movies with The Rock, where I feel if we brought Robin Williams back from the dead,

we would do an indirect sequel to one. So I don't want Jack Black coming back. I don't want The Rock. I don't want Kevin Hart. I don't want anybody else who has been associated with these sequels. I want an indirect sequel from that. first one. Robin Williams died in 2014 and he was one of the first actors or really celebrities ever that died that really impacted me. There are a handful of celebrities that I remember the exact

moment I was the day that they died. Michael Jackson was the first one who died in 2009. Not only was that a huge deal because he is one of the most famous people of all time, but he also died on my birthday so I will always associate his death with my birthday just because I remember it every single year. Robin Williams was one in 2014. For some reason, whenever Mac Miller died, that really stayed with me. And then the other one is also in my top three, which I'll get to in a minute. But sometimes they're just people that you're like, man, how did they die? Because I feel so connected to them, even though I've never met them. And the odd thing about people in film and in music is you can continue to have them live in your world because you can continue

to watch their work. And Robin Williams is somebody that you would have. have never have known all the things he was going through, all the demons he was fighting, because he was such a kind and caring person who would take care of people on the set, put things in his contract to get people hired to benefit all these people in need, just because he was that type of person. And the fact that somebody who is so renowned and so beloved and just such a great presence on screen and on stage took their own life, I think for me was one of the first times I really started to take mental health seriously.

Because growing up in the 90s, even the early 2000s, having parents who, not that we didn't value mental health, but we just never really talked about it. In my family, growing up, unless you were bleeding or something was broken, you were seen as being in good health and taking care of your head just wasn't really a thing. not something I even had come into my orbit, probably until I heard about celebrities taking their own lives and then didn't really do anything on my end until my late 20s, early 30s, where I started going to therapy and realizing how important it is to keep it clean and good upstairs as much as you can, along with trying to keep your body live. It's so exhausting to be an adult. Like, man, I have to work out and run this much just to keep this average physique, and then I also have to take care of my brain too. It's exhausting.

But Robin Williams, even though he passed away in 2014, left us behind with so many memorable movies. I'm not even sure what his most memorable single role would be. Would it be Mrs. Doubtfire in 93? Dead Poet Society in 89. Goodwill Hunting in 97? Aladdin in 92. That is the role that nobody else could do. Will Smith did the live action genie, but man, and no way did it touch what Robin Williams did in the animated movie.

My personal favorite, Robin Williams movie would probably be Jack whenever he is born with a disorder that makes him age very quickly. It was Benjamin Button before Benjamin Button, except for Benjamin Button it happens in reverse. Jack, man, that scene just gets me. An emotional Robin Williams where he's not playing a funny, goofy character and just really, hits you in that oh man that got me in the gut wherever he tries to ask out his teacher Jennifer Lopez that scene gets me every time that is my favorite Robin Williams movie one hour photo is what I believe to be the most underrated Robin Williams film it came out in 2002 he plays a awkward and shy guy who works inside of a mall at a one hour photo

developing lab which they don't have those anymore and And he starts to form a relationship with the people who have been coming into his lab for a long time. So he sees kids grow up. He forms relationships with their parents. He's nice to the kids because over the years, he has seen them grow through the photos that he's developed. So he feels like he had a personal connection with them. But then he starts to see something peculiar in their photos. And then he probably goes a step too far to be in these people's lives.

And it goes to an extreme because he thinks he is much more. part of their lives and he actually is. But man, what a transformation that his character goes through. It's a character that you care about, but then also are a little bit creeped out by. So if you haven't seen this one, highly recommend it, even though it's not on a streamer right now, you have to rent it. And I think it's like that unfortunate 379 price. That is a thing, man.

Streamers, they can pick and choose what they have on their service and what they can't. And now that physical media is not a real thing. Sometimes it's like, man, I love a movie. and I can't just watch it that easily. Maybe we do need to bring back Blockbuster after all. And obviously, Jumanji, which I mentioned them earlier, because that's what I want him to come back and play in one final time. So Robin Williams is also in my top three.

Rounding out the one, two, three of dead actors is Chadwick Boseman. I would want him to come back for a Black Panther three. Oh, I'm really heavily leaning on this one. Chadwick Bozeman died back in 2020 at the, age of 43 due to colon cancer and he battled it privately for four years this is one that just came out of nowhere i remember sitting with kelsey on the couch and her saying did you see chadwick bozeman died i said chadwick bozeman died you are you sure you're talking about black panther and it was him and the sad part about that is he died in an age of social media where there were

people pointing out things about his physical appearance having no idea and they were just being awful and rude not knowing that he was battling cancer and the fact that he was able to star in all these movies and still give amazing performances while he was going through something i don't know how he did that for so long without people knowing and that is easily his most memorable role a role that almost transcends the person he could ever be and i mean that in the positive way, saying that because Black Panther is a character that has so much impact because of who it represents. For the first time, young kids were able to see a superhero with their same skin color that they'd never seen before on that level. We'd had obviously black superheroes before

Blade being one of the most influential of the 90s and early 2000s. And once his portrayal of Tachala came out, There was all these people who finally had somebody that looked like them. And that movie was so much more impactful because of that, but it was also a great movie. He's a great superhero. And he became, through that role, a cultural icon, a symbol of empowerment. And not only that, but he took his role very seriously. He wasn't somebody who, oh, yeah, I play Black Panther, but I also want to go and do these other roles. He knew how impactful he was in that role and made it a point to take pictures with fans, meet with sick kids,

and really they picked the perfect person who not only embodied what it means to be Black Panther on screen, but off screen as well. And I can imagine bringing them back to life and having them be in one final Black Panther movie after all we went through in Black Panther 2. And also in the state of the MCU right now where, man, if you can get back, a legacy Marvel character, can you imagine the pop that a movie theater would have bringing back that role? It would be just unearthing so much. And there are only a few Marvel moments that I know exactly how that would make me feel. It'd go back to No Way Home. It'd go back to Endgame. Those moments were just like, I'm going to remember that forever. So while I'm battling, these three people, because they're all three fantastic actors,

I'm thinking of how these movies would actually play out. Chris Farley, just because we haven't seen them in so long, would be a trip. Like, that would be amazing. Like, would the ritual be worth bringing them back for Tommy Boy 2? Jumangi 4. One of my favorite movies as a kid was Jumongi. One of the first, I remember just loving the VHS, watching it all the time. And one I still go back and revisit.

To have one where he gets sucked back into the game, and now he's older, and think about the technology you have now, how much you can improve on the graphics and the special effects from Jumanji 1, but now still have Robin Williams, that would be a spectacle. But I think I talked myself into it just because I would want to experience that moment in theaters of having the original Black Panther return. And since it's only one final movie you think about his character arc that would happen and a Black Panther 3 where he is back.

But then by the end of it, you know he has to go away because you can't get a sequel to this movie. That would hit me again. Oh, could you imagine that? You bring back somebody to life and then know that they have to go at some point? You think what would I want to say? What would I want to feel in those final moments? And we would get that in cinema? So the one actor, I would bring back for one final movie.

It's going to be Chadwick Bowesman and the movie is going to be Black Panther 3. I feel good with that pick right now. While we're talking about dead actors, here are some other ones that I was going through in my research. Heath Ledger, I'd bring them back for the Dark Night Returns, which is probably my favorite graphic novel of all time. It is a story about Batman, older and age,

has not been Batman for a while. It's probably in his mid to late 50s, early 60s. He's aged. He's slower. He does it. recover as much. But Gotham has really gone to crap and he decides, I think I need to come back and be Batman. And a big part of that story is Joker. And I would bring back Heath Ledger to come back in the Dark Night Returns. And I would also use Christian Bale, who is also still alive. But Heath Ledger

died back in 2008 at the age of 28. It was an accidental overdose on prescription meds. And this was and ended up being his most memorable role, The Joker in the Dark Night 2008. Another actor I was really considering was Gene Wilder bringing him back for Wonka 2, which wouldn't be a sequel to Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory, which is obviously his most memorable role. But instead, it would be a sequel to the Timothy Shalomey version

and you just jump way ahead, go way, way, way out in time to a much older Willie Wonka. which some people speculated that it should be Jeremy Allen White, who you would know from the bear. Who bears, no pun intended, a striking resemblance to Gene Wilder? Some people thought that they were actually related. So should it have been Jeremy Allen White playing Wonka instead of Timothy Shalloway? Nah, I thought Shalibu did a good job in that. But he died back in 2016 at the age of 83 due to complications with Alzheimer's disease,

along with Willie Wonka in the Chocolate Factory. He was also iconic in young Frankenstein. and Blazing Saddles, my favorite movies of his outside of Willie Wonko, were see no evil, hear no evil with Richard Pryor and Stir Crazy, which Richard Pryor also made my list. I would want him to come back and reprise his role as Gus Gorman in the new Superman movie. Go back in and get some quick reshoot and put, well, I guess you probably couldn't reshoot it at this point, but maybe in the sequel to this one or Superman 3, you put Richard Pryor back in a superhero film, which Richard Pryor passed away back in 2005.

Another actor I was strongly considering because he is in one of my favorite movies of all time, Bill Paxton. And he would have to be in the sequel to Twisters, which what would you call that movie? Because we had Twister, then we had Twisters. Would it be Twisters'ez? Or would it be Twisters 2? I guess it would be Twisters 3, though, because it's a non-direct sequel to the original. What would you call this movie?

Twisters' Zez? but I would want to bring back Bill Paxton, who died back in 2017 at the age of 61, had a stroke following a heart surgery. Twister to me was his most memorable role, but he was also in Apollo 13, aliens in 1986, and Titanic in 1997, which I have to imagine was a pretty good paycheck for him. What an incredibly versatile actor. Just look at all those roles, big blockbusters, and he also did a lot of smaller independent. movies as well. But could you imagine Bill Paxton back from the dead as Bill in Twisters'ez? Hey Bill, you're back. I'm not back. Got a few more here on my list. Bernie Mac, because they are remaking Friday. I think it's still in development allegedly was supposed to come out in 2025. I don't see that happening. I'm not telling myself there's a new Friday movie coming out until I see that trailer because

this has been dangled over my head like a carrot for, I don't know, the last. decade. Bernie Mac died at the age of 50 back in 2008. This was a sad one too because I loved the Bernie Mac show, which was probably his most famous work, but in film, I think it would probably be Oceans 11 in 2001. I loved him in life. He was also in Transformers, Bad Santa, oh, whenever he threw in Bad Santa with wanting a 50% cut from the job and they're at that diner and he's like, half. How about 45%? Hoff. 49%

Hoff. That was a great scene. Mr. 3000. It was another good movie. I love Bernie Mac, one of the best voices in comedy. I also thought about bringing back John Candy and I would want him to be

in the Madden biopic that they're actually filming now where Nick Cage is playing John Madden and Christian Bale is playing Al Davis. But I look at John Candy and think, oh man, he would have been a great John Madden He died back in 94, had a heart attack at the age of 43. His most famous movie was probably planes, trains, and automobiles in 1987.

He was also in Uncle Buck in 1989. My favorite John Candy movie is probably between cool runnings from 93. He was also in Spaceballs and had a cameo in Home Alone where he improvised all of his dialogue. And it's probably one of his most memorable roles, even though he's only in that for a limited amount of time. He was paid very little money to do that role. But much like Chris Farley, he is somebody whose comedic presence in film has been missed because there has not been another John Candy. Because not only was he funny, but he also had this warmth to him.

Every scene just felt very personal. He was very charismatic and delivered dialogue effortlessly. There is coming out produced by Ryan Reynolds called John Candy, I Like Me, which is a reference to a famous line of his in planes, trains and automobiles. So hopefully that is good, because that is also being directed by Colin Hanks. If I had unlimited rituals, I'd bring back Norm McDonald, put him in Dirty Work too, even though that probably wasn't a movie he was particularly proud of. One of my favorite comedies of the 90s.

He died back in 2021, the age of 61 due to leukemia, probably more well known for his work on Saturday Night Live on Weekend Update, but I love Dirty Work. Bring him back, get R. Delang back in there, and give me that. Adam Sandler cameo two. Patrick Swayze was another one I considered. Bring him back for Dirty Dancing 3, which would be dirtier dancing maybe. He died back in 2009 at the age of 57 due to pancreatic cancer. Johnny and Dirty Dancing was probably his most memorable role.

He was also in Ghost Point Break. He was a rare mix of being somebody who was just all-out masculine, but also had this tenderness to him that I think is also greatly missed in Hollywood. And my final one on my list, Brittany Murphy, who also left us too soon in 2009, died at the age of 32 due to an accidental overdose. Her most memorable roles included Clueless, Girl Interrupted, and 8 Mile was probably her biggest role, but for me, I loved her in a little movie from 2002 called Spun. So give me back Britney Murphy and put her in Spun 2. I'll come back and give my spoiler-free review of the new horror movie, Bring Her Back. There's two golden rules that any man should live by.

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who are two Australian directors, relatively young, 32 years old. They got their start just making YouTube videos as twin brothers, just messing around, beating each other up in their backyard. And even in those early YouTube videos, you can tell that they had an eye for creating something special.

There are videos where you see the behind the scenes of them as kids and like talking about like keep the cameras held still, giving direction at such a young age on things that maybe to some seem very juvenile, like beating your brother up with some wrestling moves. I can relate to that. They made their debut with a movie called Talk to Me, which is available on Netflix now. And since then, they've been taking Hollywood by storm. After that came out, they started getting messages from their heroes like Jordan Peel. Stephen King gave them praise for that movie. And now this is something that we need in the horror genre. Two guys who just feel like they're making movies that I want to see that nobody else is making right now.

Because I think when you get into horror, you can get very calculated. And by watching Bring Her Back, I can tell that they had that punk rock mentality, that YouTuber mentality of, we're going to make something that we want to see and not play to any of these rules where I can feel the youth in this movie. And it's a good thing because you can tell that they don't have the most experience, like say, I would say the best horror movie of the year up until this one was probably the monkey from Oz Perkins,

who has more experience there last year with long legs. And this movie feels so much less calculated to that. So where it really shines is in that rawness, but now also starting to have a little bit more experience under their belt is what makes it great. I think also the fact that they are Australian. and it feels really refreshing to me. A great, just one two star for them,

this being their second movie. And after watching it, I just feel like, we haven't seen their best work yet. And this is so exciting to me. So what bring her back is about, which is a movie I feel you can spoil a lot by giving away the plot details.

So I'm not going to speak too much on that. But here is the description pulled from IMDB. A brother and sister witnessed a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. So you have these two characters who just lost their father and now are at risk of being split up. The older brother has been taking care of the younger sister who is visually impaired. And after their dad dies, they initially want to split them up. But luckily they are able to work out a deal where they can both go live with one foster parent.

And then things start to get really weird. But that's really all you need to know going into this movie. Now, how scary is it? Bring her back really isn't that scary. It is unsettling, which at times to me is better. Because this is a movie that is going to stay around. It's going to linger with you the more and more that you think about it. Like those times where I would go to the gas station to get a burrito.

And I'm questioning it. It's like $1.99. I'm like, do I really want this burrito? How long has this burrito been sitting at this gas station? But I'm hungry. It's cheap. I'm broke. I want to go and get that gas station burrito.

I eat that burrito in about five minutes. but then the after effects of that burrito stick with me much longer than those five minutes, much longer than the value of $1.99. It hits me the next day, maybe even the day after, and then the next time I go thinking about getting another gas station burrito, I think twice. That is how I felt watching Talk to Me, where in the moment I wasn't terrified, but it was so unsettling because there were so many moments

that there were things that I had never seen before in a supernatural movie that made my skin crawl a little bit that made me just kind of. kind of cringe and there are certain things you can put in horror movies that get me. And there were things in this one that I didn't know could get me because I hadn't seen them yet. Usually it's broken bones in the case of bring her back. There were these really violent moments that really made the film, but in no way did it just capitalize on jump scares. I don't think there were any jump scares in this movie. It comes down to great storytelling, which it did a really good job of making you care about these characters. It really

invested in those first 20 minutes of yeah giving you some scary images but really telling you the story of these two kids and what they are going through and really made you care about their living situation and all the trauma that they are both dealing with that made you want to take this ride with them made you want to root for them throughout this entire thing because man does it get crazy so that was a really important thing to do and sometimes horror movies get it wrong because they spend so much time on this exposition trying to make you take you to care about these characters and it never quite connects. It connected here.

And then they also created just an impeccable villain that was so bizarre and such a force that you've just hated with every fiber of your being because you could not believe what they were doing. So you have the great storytelling and the great acting in a pretty limited cast. It's really these three members. You have the foster mom and the two kids and that really makes up the entire film. Sally Hawkins plays the foster mom, which you may remember her from The Shape of Water back in 2017. She got an Oscar nomination for that movie.

I think she should have won, although The Shape of Water did take home best picture. That is one of those best pictures that nobody really talks about anymore. I loved it in the moment, but it's one I don't revisit a whole lot, even though it's a great movie. She was fantastic in that, and she brought that level of acting to this movie. I heard a story that she scared all the other people on set because how committed she was. us to this role that had so many layers to it. Sometimes you sympathize with her, sometimes you want to throw her out a window, and sometimes you feel sad for her, and then sometimes you just all out hate her. Billy Barrett played the older brother who was fantastic, gave a really

emotional performance. His younger sister was played by Sorrel Wong. Well, this was her acting debut. She was not aspiring to be an actor whatsoever, but her mom actually came across a casting call on Facebook that was looking for a visually impaired actor. So they applied, she got the role and she did an incredible job. She was born with a condition that left her with limited sight, but had zero experience in acting going into this film. And you couldn't really tell because she was that good in this. And what excites me about the Philippa brothers is I know that their best films are probably

five, seven, maybe even ten years down the line. And I also don't think that they're going to do horror forever. I hear a lot of directors give their story how horror is their first love and that's what makes them want to make movies. Also, when you're young filmmakers doing things on YouTube, sometimes having a lower budget just lends yourself to making horror movies because you can take some corn syrup and some red food dye, make some fake blood. But I just think that eventually they are so good at what they do and have this artistic vision that is so uniquely them that they're going to go on to probably make another couple horror movies. but really cement themselves as these great directors who can do anything. And they've already proved that in just two movies. So not necessarily when you have to rush to see in theaters, although I would.

But if you want to start with Talk to Me, which you can watch on Netflix, which that is about a group of teenagers who start messing with these dark spirits because they get this embalmed hand, that it all starts out as a social media challenge where they take this embalmed hand. They shake hands with it, essentially, and they're able to experience and communicate with the dead and they're all just filming it for social media. But it's kind of like that episode of SpongeBob

where SpongeBob and Patrick are riding the hooks. And it's all, you know, the fisherman fishing. So you can only ride the hooks so far up before you get caught and you have to let go to come back down. But to them it's that experience of riding it all the way up and then riding it down. But if you hold on just a little bit too long, you're in for a world of hurt.

So maybe start with Talk to Me and then give, her back a chance because I think if you're really into horror and you haven't seen their work yet, you're going to love it. And I think when I ready to talk to me, I probably gave it a 4.5 out of five, which ended up being my favorite horror movie of the year it came out. I don't like Bring Her Back as much as I did talk to me just because I think the overall scary nature of Talk to Me was a little bit better, but still a fantastic movie. For Bring Her Back, I give it four out of five foster moms. There's two golden rules that any man should live by.

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And that pains me to say because I love Adam Sandler. I believe his two most important movies of all time were Billy Madison, which came out in 1995, followed that up with Happy Gilmore in 1996. That is the, if these movies were, didn't exist, his career would not be where it is today. But I think when you look at the movie people love the most is Happy Gilmore, even though for me, I think the comedy is better in Billy Madison. If I could pick one of those movies to have a sequel to this year on Netflix, it would have

been Billy Madison. But don't get my way right now, I have to imagine eventually. They probably will make another one, even if the story doesn't make sense. They'll find a way to make that happen. And this is one of those movies that always felt that it was just going to exist on Facebook with people making fake posters for it for a long time. But finally coming to Netflix, Happy Gilmore 2. I've probably been seeing this rumor for about 10 years now. But this is actually true.

I have three reasons why I think it's not going to be good. But before I get into that, here is just a little bit of the Happy Gilmore 2 trailer coming to Netflix on July 25th. My name is Happy Gilmore. 30 years ago, I decided to give golf a try. But even when you're at the top of your game, you can always shank one. Let them see the happy I fell in love with. Happy Gilmore is breaking in yet another catty.

You just met. Happy Gilmore didn't have things flowing on the first. Here are my three reasons why I'm hesitant about this movie. The three warning signs that Happy Gilmore 2 is not going to be a good movie. At number three, I have that it looks like a very small amount of this movie is going to be original, and that is not a good thing. What this movie is about takes place 30 years after he won his first tour. He's retired, but he has to come out of retirement because his daughter, who in this movie is played by his real-life daughter, Sonny Sandler, she needs money to go to Vienna to go to a ballet school.

So he's like, I got to make some money. I got to go back and play some golf. You have Julie Bowen returning, and it seems like that's all they need to put him back in this situation to really pick back up back where the original started in 1996. So instead of him trying to harness his energy and turn it into a great golf game, now he's going to try to get back that golf game that he had back when he was first starting out. So it really feels like the same case here.

So that is warning sign number three. And number two I have. There are so many callbacks to that original movie that it feels like this. movie is going to just be living in the past, which I don't understand why you need to make a sequel if all you're going to do is remind people about the gags you did in part one, which is what we see in this trailer, references to all the old characters coming back, his mannerisms, him yelling at people, him fighting people, in all the same ways that he did in the original one. You have Shooter McGavin returning and they get into that same altercation where he references

is the famous quote about what he eats for breakfast that he did in the first one. And what this reminds me of and why I'm so scarred by this is the worst time I've ever been burned by a legacy comedy sequel was with Dumb and Dumber 2. I was so excited for this sequel. One of the best comedy movies of the 90s, much like the two Adam Sandler movies I've mentioned. And whenever that movie came out, what we got was them just rehashing all the bits and gags from the first one.

and I hated that movie, one of the worst live action comedy sequels of all the time. And I think that is the territory we are getting into Happy Gilmore 2. Because the benefit of doing something like this is it's going to get a lot of eyeballs on it because it's a very beloved movie. But why make a sequel when you're going to add no new comedy and just do the same old gags? If that were the case, I would just sit down to watch Happy Gilmore 1 and not need to watch Happy Gilmore 2. So I'm hoping that they have some other elements of comedy that is new and refreshing, but I just don't think we're going to get that because Happy Gilmore did rely a lot on physical comedy,

and I'm seeing a lot of that showcased in this trailer. So just by looking at this trailer, I feel like I'm not going to look at it and say some great comedy writing went into Happy Gilmore too. So there's too many callbacks to the original, too many reincarnations of the same gags. That is my second warning. But number one, the biggest red flag and warning that doesn't even just apply to Happy Gilmore 2. If a movie has as many cameos as this one does in the trailer, it's just going to turn into an all-out cameo fest. And the actual story is going to be suppressed even more so. And I'm fighting for a little ounce of original story.

But it seems like it's going to be cluttered with all these celebrity cameos. You have Travis Kelsey, Post Malone, Eric Andre. Bad Bunny is playing his caddy. Much like in the original, you have a bunch of professional golfers, which those obviously have a place here. You have Ben Stiller returning as his character. In the original, he worked taking care of Happy Gilmore's grandma. And now in this one, he runs a support group.

And then you have more NFL players. Ken Jennings is in this movie, Dan Patrick, who is in a lot of Adam Sandler movies. But the list goes on and on and on. But in the original, there were only about seven celebrity cameos, and those included the professional golfers who had roles in that movie, but now there are so many, I can't even count them.

There's a full page of them. And Adam Sandler is a guy who likes putting all of his friends in his movies, and you got to give it to him. Dude is loyal. But I just feel that this is going to be a movie that is really playing to social media because you put all of these stars in a movie. They all promoted on their Instagram, on their TikToks, and it causes the movie to blow up.

It causes everybody to watch this when it drops on Netflix. So maybe that is a bit of marketing for this, even though I feel like this is going to be an instant hit for Netflix. Part of the deal that they have with Adam Sandler is basically they gave him millions and millions of dollars, and he gets to make whatever he wants. So I am not trying to sound like a big Adam Sandler hater in this regard because I do like his work. Some of his movies aren't the best that have come out from Netflix, but I still enjoy them.

and most importantly, I still watch them because even though you're never going to recreate what I think was his best work in the 90s and early 2000s, they're still a lot of fun. So even though I'm saying that there are all these warning signs of why it's not going to be good, I think it could still be fun. And I can't even be mad at all of these celebrity cameos because I can imagine if you were somebody who grew up watching Adam Sandler and now are famous and get an opportunity to not only be in one of his movies, but to be in the sequel of one of his most iconic movies of all time, you are going to take that. So great for them, great for Adam Sandler for always looking out for his friends.

I think he's just a guy who wants to make movies with his family and with his friends. He's been casting his wife in his movies for a very long time and now, as of recently, has been casting his daughters in things. And that just seems wholesome to me. Because movies take a long time to make. They're often very boring, just a lot of. of sitting around, and that is time that otherwise, if he didn't have his family be a part of these films, he would be away from them. So he's kind of found a cheat code in making movies. Hey, let me do a tropical movie where I can not only take my entire family, but we can work at the same time, we can bring all my friends, and then we make money on the other end. It is a win-win

situation. I've never officially met Adam Sandler, but I have seen him at an airport at a distance, and it felt like seeing somebody so famous that he was almost like a ghost. When you see a ghost out of the corner of your eye or you think you see a ghost, you're like, wait, that couldn't have been. Ghosts don't exist. Ghost exists only in movies. That is how I felt about him because I've been watching his movie since I was a kid. And suddenly he's like four feet away from me walking in his classic Adam Sandler clothing

with a big baggy shirt, big baggy sweatpants. And he just felt like a normal human in that moment, even though my brain could just not compute that the Sandman was right next to me. And the only other thing I'll say about Netflix movies is they haven't been the best. I think they make these obviously in order to get subscribers and keep people happy and not cancel their subscriptions. But man, why do they make all their movies look exactly the same? It seems that they have some kind of requirements for everybody to use as far as cameras when making a Netflix movie.

and I think they try to make movies that seem bright and colorful. And maybe I'm the only one who notices this because they want it to look good on all the screens, all the devices, not only your TV at home, but people are watching movies on their phones, on their tablets, on their Apple watch, on their refrigerator. So you have to make sure it's bright and colorful. But I think it just takes away from that classic film look the way that Happy Gilmore was captured. So that's not really a warning sign for me. the personal pet peeve.

And I'm probably alone in that. But again, happy Gilmore 2 is coming out on Netflix on July 25th. And you can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot. And that was this week's edition of Movie Minds, Trailer Park. And that is going to do it for another episode here of the podcast. But before I go, I got to give my listener shout out of the week. This week, I'm going over to TikTok, which I do have access back to it. although I'm not able to change my URL,

although I think if you just search Mike D. Stroh or click the link in the podcast description, I've tried to update it. It says it's updated, but some reason it just goes back to that freaking hacker's username. But anyway, going over to TikTok, I posted a clip from my Mission Impossible 8 review last week, and we're shouting out Henry,

who said, Mission Impossible has always had great stunts, but after Mission Impossible 4, it started being known for the real stunts. So whoever the torch gets passed on to, preferably, would be someone willing to do what Tom Cruise did, but start off slow. Figuratively, big shoes to fill.

So it sounds like Henry, you are a fan of Mission Impossible, but also take some digs there at Tom Cruise, and I can appreciate that. Because I kind of feel the same way. I like what he does for the movie industry, but him as a person, I don't know if I can get behind. I do think that is a good point to bring up Henry, because I did mention the room,

about Glenn Powell possibly be the one who he wants to pass the torch on over to. But I didn't really consider that at the moment, Glenn Powell is not really considered to be an action star. He's done some movies that have been a little bit more physically demanding, but nothing on the level of a Mission Impossible movie or a Jason Bourne movie doesn't really have an action franchise to his name. But, and I just think he would crush this franchise. So thank you, Henry, for that comment.

Thank you right now, wherever you are listening. Hope you're subscribed. Hope you check out my YouTube channel, trying to get to a thousand followers. YouTube.com slash Mike DeStro to check out individual movie reviews and clips from the podcast. And until next time, go out and watch good movies, and I will talk to you later.

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