The Wrong Missy

 

 

 

I’m switching it up this week. Instead of telling you what you don’t want to miss, I’m pointing out what you might want to avoid. I had seen this movie pop up on Netflix with David Spade wearing a trucker hat which was a solid signal not to click on it. Turns out there is even worse news about The Wrong Missy, it is a Happy Madison Production, which means Adam Sandler. My opinion had started to change about Adam Sandler after watching Uncut Gems. But with The Wrong Missy he is right back in familiar territory.

 

 

 

The movie opens up with Tim, played by David Spade going into a bar to meet a blind date. Instead of a meet cute, it’s more like a meet awkward. His date Missy, played by Lauren Lapkus, comes across like a psychopath, who actually has a humongous Bowie knife in her purse. The date just keeps getting worse and worse until Tim makes a break for it out of the bathroom window. He swears off dating and concentrates on getting a promotion that is coming open at work. 

 

A few months later while on a business trip he literally bumps into a girl named Melissa, played by Molly Sims, and they get their bags mixed up. They get to talking and find out they have much in common. Neither one drinks, they both love Phil Collins, they are both reading the same novel, and they both were cheated on by their former mates. They wind up making out in a storage room and swap phone numbers. He starts texting her when he gets back home. He decides to ask her to go to the company retreat. He has told everyone about her and can’t wait to show her off. But wait, Tim doesn’t realize he has been texting the crazy blind date nightmare until they are on the plane. Missy is the exact opposite of boring Tim. She is a hard drinker, huge partier, a licensed marriage counselor, hypnotist, EMT, palm reader, and a few more things. She ruins his life, and then makes it better than it was. I’m sure you can guess the rest of the formula.

 

 

 

Exactly 90 minutes, Rated TV Mature, tons of cussing, some sexual references with 2 sex scenes.

 

 

 

Sadly there might have been a good comedy here

 

but the writing is very lazy. But not as lazy as David Spade’s performance. A cardboard standup would have had more personality. David Spade is not without talent, he was great in Just Shoot Me. He just didn’t show up in this. Now Lauren Lapkus is another story. She gave this movie everything she had, and then some. She was completely fearless in her performance, but was hampered with the lazy writing. I would love to see her get a really good part with some really good writing. But if this movie puts her in Adam Sandler’s circle she might be stuck and never get out.

 

 

 

Speaking of that circle, in this movie was his usual buddies and most of his family. Rob Schneider, Nick Swardson of Bucky Larson fame, Adam’s wife Jackie, his two daughters, a nephew, and Chris Farley’s younger brother John. He also manages to pull off a Vanilla Ice Cameo. The first third had some promise, but it goes downhill fast all the way to underwater mermaid talking. At that point I was already out.

 

 

 

My Score: 2 Buds

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