The Wrong Missy

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Adam Sandler’s recent filmography has largely been an excuse to write off travel as a business expense. How many of his films have been unnecessarily set in Hawaii? Many. Here’s one more!

First, let me be upfront: for better or worse, this film does NOT star Adam Sandler. Actually (not to mention improbably), that is most definitely for the worse. He does produce it, and it does star each and every one of his homies, plus many of his non-actor family members (wife, kids, nephew, and brother-in-law, and those are just the ones I can spot unassisted). The Wrong Missy stars David Spade, because the universe needed reminding there are worse things than Adam Sandler.

David Spade plays “Tim,” a super cool guy. Haha, just kidding obviously. Tim is a wiener with a bad haircut. When we first meet him, he’s on a blind date with an unarguably batshit woman – honestly and completely insane. And yet we don’t really feel sorry for Tim because who is he to want more? This is probably the best he can do. And yet not only does he feels entitled to sneak out a bathroom window, he dares to look an attractive woman (Molly Sims) in the eye as if they are equals. In the Adam Sandler Cinematic Universe, dorky guys are always landing impossible women way out of their leagues. This feels plausible to Adam Sandler because in real life, he is rich and he is funny and he married a model. In real life, David Spade is…comfortable and, um, Adam Sandler’s friend, which at the very least guarantees steady employment and lavish, write-offable travel. But Tim? Tim is not funny. Tim is not successful. Tim does not have any rich best friends. But Tim is off to a Hawaiian corporate retreat, so he plays the best card he has and invites her along.

Except while he thinks he’s inviting the exceptional Melissa (Molly Sims), he’s actually texting his crazy blind date Missy (Lauren Lapkus), who is nuts enough to follow a guy who fled their first date all the way to Hawaii on a second. And when she starts to bleed her insanity all over his helpless coworkers, threatening his outside chance at a promotion, we once again fail to feel the least bit sorry for him. He is miles away from being a sympathetic character. And Missy’s zany antics are miles away from funny. They’re so over the top she’s not a believable character, but more unforgivably, she’s not an entertaining one. It doesn’t make you laugh, it makes you feel uncomfortable, makes you pray for the end. There’s no one to root for, no relationship to endorse. It’s painful, it’s distasteful, and the only reason to watch this movie is if a certified doctor has given you only 89 minutes left to live, and you want those 89 minutes to feel like 3 years.

15 thoughts on “The Wrong Missy”

  3. selizabryangmailcom

    Haha. Too bad. On a different note, did anyone see Uncut Gems? I thought Mr. Sandler was pretty good in that. Not his usual adolescent humor at all…..

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  5. rdfranciswriter

    Yes. The opening salvo about “travel expenses” and the “doctor” at the end. Awesome stuff.

    I believe we all laughed more reading about the movie than if we actually watched the movie.

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  8. Widdershins

    I ‘spose, but only if you wanted to spend those three years sticking nails in your eyes one billion, one hundred and thirty-five million, two hundred and ninety-six thousand times – that’s one nail for every second! 🙂

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  9. Lorna Cunningham-Rushton

    Wonderful and funny.Thanks.

    On Wed., May 13, 2020, 5:52 p.m. ASSHOLES WATCHING MOVIES, wrote:

    > Jay posted: ” Adam Sandler’s recent filmography has largely been an excuse > to write off travel as a business expense. How many of his films have been > unnecessarily set in Hawaii? Many. Here’s one more! First, let me be > upfront: for better or worse, this film does N” >

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