时隔30年，《快乐高尔夫》续集《快乐高尔夫2》重磅回归，亚当·桑德勒领衔主演。影片讲述了已退役的高尔夫球手哈皮·吉尔摩在家庭遭遇变故后，为支付女儿的学费不得不重返赛场，并再次面对宿敌 shooter McGavin 的故事。影片大胆运用先进特效技术，成功塑造了哈皮在过去30年中参与SNL、赢得PGA冠军等“档案影像”，让观众在怀旧中体验创新。主演们分享了对首集文化影响的看法以及续集创作中的技术挑战。

🏆 **经典IP的时代延续与技术革新**：时隔30年，《快乐高尔夫2》不仅让主演亚当·桑德勒回归，更巧妙地运用了大量特殊效果技术，重现了主角在过去30年中参与SNL、赢得多个PGA冠军的“历史画面”，这为经典IP注入了新的生命力，也展现了电影制作在视觉呈现上的巨大进步。

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 **温情家庭与励志回归**：影片情节围绕着哈皮·吉尔摩的家庭展开，当家庭遭遇变故，为了支付女儿的学费，他不得不从高尔夫退役状态重返赛场。这种设定将个人事业与家庭责任紧密结合，为观众呈现了一个关于亲情、责任和重新振作的励志故事。

🤝 **宿敌再临与职业生涯的挑战**：哈皮在重返高尔夫赛场的同时，也必须再次面对他长期的竞争对手 Shooter McGavin。这种宿敌的设定为影片增添了戏剧冲突和观赏性，也象征着哈皮在职业生涯中需要克服的重重障碍，以重新证明自己是高尔夫界的传奇人物（G.O.A.T.）。

🎬 **演员的行业感悟与创作初心**：主演朱莉·鲍温和克里斯托弗·麦克唐纳分享了他们对首集巨大成功的意外以及对续集创作的看法。亚当·桑德勒也谈及了他在职业生涯中如何保持自我，并表示创作团队受到了早期喜剧电影的影响，致力于为年轻观众带来他们喜爱的喜剧风格。

In 1996, Happy Gilmore inspired many of us to change the way we saw golf, or at least how to swing a golf club. Now, 30 years later, we've got a sequel. Happy Gilmore 2 stars Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, and Christopher McDonald sat down with Mashable's Executive Producer, Mark Stetson, to talk about the cultural impact of the first film, crucial elements that needed to be included the sequel, and the tech they used in the new film to create archival footage of themselves from the last 30 years.

Happy Gilmore 2 picks up with Happy (Adam Sandler) and Virginia (Julie Bowen), who have grown their family and their lives thanks to Happy's success in the golf world. However, after a family trauma rocks their world, Happy, who has since retired from the game of golf, has to come out of retirement to help pay for his daughter's schooling. Of course, his rivalry with Shooter McGavin (McDonald) proves to be an obstacle he must get over in order to re-establish himself as one of the G.O.A.T's of golf.

In the interview, Bowen and McDonald reveal whether or not they got the sense of how big the 1996 original film would actually become. Bowen reacts immediately: "Oh, God. No... It was my first movie so I had to idea that it was possible." McDonald had more of a gut feeling about the film's potential, saying, "I mean, I had an idea of it. I don't know how easy that is to predict, though, because, in this world, it's like, we never know. And sometimes I've done great work, and then it does mezza business. But then they discover it later on."

Happy Gilmore 2 has a few important flashback scenes where they had to figure out a way to make it look like Happy hosted SNL in the 2000s, and that he won multiple PGA championships. This, Sandler says, required "a lot of special effects. More than I've ever done before in my life." Bowen goes on to describe the experience. "You go after every scene, you have to go into this truck with hundreds of cameras... and stand there and you kind of go, 'Are they stealing my soul?' But they take every single thing about you in that outfit and make you look young."

The interview ends with Sandler talking about how he was able to hold on to his sense of self throughout his career. "In the beginning, you don't even know who you are. Well, I didn't know who I was. And all of a sudden I was working and doing stuff that, I would be on the set, or I'd watch it and I'd say, 'I like that. I'm so happy I'm in that, but I don't know if it's exactly what makes me laugh,' or whatever. And then me and my buddies just started going, 'Let's try to try to make stuff that we used to love growing up.' Stuff like the old Saturday Night Live guys, the Animal Houses and the Caddyshacks and stuff. We were like, 'We kind of want to be in that world for the youth.' And we’d never think we did it as good as them but we worked hard to try to make the youngsters happy."

Happy Gilmore 2 is now streaming on Netflix.