Coming 29 years after the original was released to theaters, the desire for Happy Gilmore 2 was strong with Netflix viewers.

With these numbers, Happy Gilmore 2 swipes the trophy from fellow Netflix original Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which previously held the record with 2.2 billion minutes in 2023. It’s also the best opening for an Adam Sandler film to date,

Carl Weathers’ Chubbs Peterson was also slated to return, until the actor died last year. So this film features the character’s son Slim Peterson (Lavell Crawford), who, like his father, sports a prosthetic hand that has an inconvenient propensity for falling off.