Don’t miss these ‘Wrong Missy’ moments
When you combine David Spade, Adam Sandler, mistaken identities and tropical cocktails, you know the results are gonna be silly.
The latest cinematic team-up between Netflix and Sandler’s Happy Madison production company, “The Wrong Missy” (streaming now) is a crass romantic comedy that features a bunch of cameos (one especially keen for those who love white rappers of the ’90s) and a surprisingly sweet love story.
Tim (Spade) is a bank executive hoping to snag a promotion by impressing his new boss (Geoff Pierson) and foiling his office rival (Jackie Sandler, aka Adam’s wife) at the company’s Hawaiian retreat.
Via text, Tim thinks he’s invited Melissa (Molly Sims), the woman of his dreams he fleetingly met at the airport, but before the plane takes off, he realizes the message was sent to Missy (Lauren Lapkus), the lunatic force of nature with whom he shared one crazy blind date.
Cue many drunken moments, shadow dancers spelling “best shart,” but also some unexpected feelings.
And because former “SNL” castmates Sandler and Spade are involved, you know there’s going to be a bunch of seriously goofy moments (including Spade in a mermaid outfit).
Here are the five best:
‘Missy’ begins with the worst first date ever
A laid-back and lonely sort, Tim gets shot out of the cannon of love as soon as Missy enters his life. He almost gets into a fight with a large, muscular fellow (WWE wrestler Roman Reigns), she whips out a huge knife that would make Crocodile Dundee jealous, and while trying to escape out a bathroom window, Tim falls and grotesquely dislocates his ankle. Fortunately, Missy finds him and happily/crazily crams it back into place with a shudder-inducing crack.
There is an unfortunate visit to the Mile High Club
When Missy plops into the seat next to him in first class on the plane to paradise, Tim terrifyingly realizes his error. He doesn’t want a drink, so she takes two, and instead of liquid refreshment, Missy forces a dog tranquilizer into his mouth. When he wakes up later, Missy’s giving him an “upsie-downsie” under a blanket, much to his horror. Not helping: The lady in the seat behind him, who says, “You’re going to hell.”
Someone takes a header off a cliff – and lives
Once the accidental couple arrive in Hawaii, Missy’s pretty much drinking nonstop and Tim’s left to try to die of total embarrassment. He’s playing pool with his boss when he gets the news that Missy’s about to do a triple backflip off a cliff and into the ocean. However, she’s quite inebriated, so instead of a graceful dive, she falls off, hits some branches and rocks on the way down, and winds up face down in the sand. “Please tell me someone got that on video,” she says, getting up just before being wrecked by a wave.
Enter Rob Schneider and a hungry shark
Tim hopes to ghost Missy long enough to hop on a sea excursion to cage dive with sharks, but like a bad penny, she shows up just in time. Tom is peerpressured into getting in the underwater cage with his boss, and Missy chops up some fish to chum the water so sharks show up. Instead, she ends up with fish guts on her, she throws up and a huge shark bites its way into the cage. Our hero this time is Komante (Schneider), the boat captain with a gnarled hand forever throwing a “hang loose” salute (thanks to a shark eating his middle three digits), who punches the hangry fish several times before it scoots away.
A threesome goes very, very wrong
Melissa eventually does come into the picture, and Tim has to work out some complicated feelings in this strange love triangle. It becomes a romantic rhombus for a bit, however, when Missy – who’s a marriage counselor along with being a magician, wannabe sex therapist and general jack-ofall-trades – hangs out with Tim’s exfiancée Julia (Sarah Chalke) on the trip. They hit it off, and Missy thinks Tim and Julia should have breakup sex for closure (with Missy involved, of course, because she’s kind of a freak), and before they get the intimacy going, they brush their teeth with weed toothpaste. Things get hot and heavy, yet also violent for poor Julia, who is accidentally head-butted, elbow-smashed and roundhouse-kicked by the flailing other two before she bows out gracefully.
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