This opening feels like director Jeremy Garelick is hastily salvaging at least 10 minutes’ worth of cut footage from the previous movie, largely because it includes some sellable Sandler/Aniston antics and a familiar face. Since their first European adventure, Nick and Audrey have opened their own private detective agency, and business is not going well, as illustrated by scraps of a sequence where they investigate a husband’s infidelity and find out he was just planning a surprise party for his wife. This catch-up is cut together with bits and pieces explaining what happened next. Out-of-nowhere voice-over fills the audience in on the central couple’s background from Murder Mystery: On a long-delayed vacation, retired cop Nick and hairdresser Audrey stumbled upon a Death on the Nile-style murder on a yacht, and though they were initially suspected of committing that murder, they wound up cracking the case instead.
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The movie starts with clear signs of postproduction tinkering. Is he putting more thought into his day job, emboldened by his work for directors like Noah Baumbach ( The Meyerowitz Stories) and the Safdie brothers ( Uncut Gems)? Or did he simply get as bored of making boilerplate Happy Madison movies as he looked on screen? Reasons aside, it seems like Sandler’s comedic instincts have been sharpened, and Murder Mystery 2 is convincing evidence - not because it’s one of his best projects, but because it isn’t, yet it still manages to be a pretty good time. 2018’s The Week Of is one of his best comedies ever, and 2022’s Hustle is a grounded sports dramedy with barely any shtick. His follow-up, the 2016 Netflix movie The Do-Over - a weirdly violent buddy comedy with David Spade - mostly felt like a listless exercise in both men really missing their late pal Chris Farley.īut a few years into his first Netflix pact, Sandler’s broad comedies started to show signs of genuine effort. Hopes that he might use his long-term deal with the streamer to get out of his 2010s-era rut were dashed when his 2015 movie The Ridiculous 6, a longtime dream-project Western, was just as slipshod and crudely conceived as the likes of 2013’s big-studio release Grown Ups 2. Sandler’s relationship with Netflix didn’t start out this way. The one surprise: At this point, the baseline for Sandler’s routine comedies has been moved up several notches. (Though if you assume the central crime will be an actual murder mystery, you have either not given Happy Madison enough credit, or given it far too much.) Anyone who saw 2019’s Murder Mystery will know what they’re getting into.
To these routines, Murder Mystery 2 adds further sequel-related certainties: Once again, Nick Spitz (Sandler) and his wife, Audrey (Aniston), bicker and solve a crime while on vacation.
As usual, the plotting has a ramshackle quality, possibly imposed by Sandler and his Happy Madison staffers. Of course the ensemble includes thinly drawn supporting characters who exist primarily so Sandler and his latest on-screen wife can take cheap shots at their transparently bad (or just odd) behavior. Obviously, Sandler once again plays a just-plain-folks type who accidentally winds up in the lap of luxury. Viewers tuning into Netflix on March 31 for Murder Mystery 2, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, can reasonably expect certain things, since the movie is one of Sandler’s many Happy Madison productions for the streaming service.
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