“Happy Gilmore 2” launched on the streamer on July 25. For the week of July 21 through 27, the film generated 46.7 million views, with a view defined as total hours watched divided by the total runtime. That makes this start the biggest U.S. opening weekend of all time for a Netflix film, as well as the best ever for one of Sandler’s movies.

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…

Netflix hasn’t exactly been known for its blockbuster straight-to-streaming films in the past, but it is flipping the script with Happy Gilmore 2. Adam Sandler’s sequel to the 1996 original shattered an opening weekend record for Netflix,

Adam Sandler's 'Happy Gilmore 2' is officially out on Netflix, and the film has fans living for the nostalgia.

Of all the dirty, rotten, down-low things Netflix has done, providing a gaping pit of gold coins for Adam Sandler to cannonball into like Scrooge McDuck might be the worst so far. When left to his own devices,

Social media users on X, formerly Twitter, gushed over Sandler’s touching easter egg dedicated to the late Disney star. Reps for Sandler and Netflix didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment.