The Wrong Missy

With humour as about as subtle as a brick, The Righteous Gemstones’ writers Chris Pappas and Kevin Barnett create “comedy gold” out of physical disabilities, vomiting in a shark tank and a Merman outfit.

The Wrong Missy is a lightweight throwaway, the kind of movie it is difficult to suggest one actually choose to watch, but if your algorithm somehow lands on it provides a certain harmless diversion.

Even with locked-down consumers scraping the bottom of the Netflix content trough, this new addition to the lineup is pretty dreary.

Though the gags are retrograde groaners, Lapkus embarrasses herself with confidence. Her full-throttle verve transcends the script like a water skier leaping over a Great White.

Spade and director Tyler Spindel have reunited for another Sandler-produced, Netflix-bankrolled comedy, and the results are… surprisingly funny.

It’s almost a shame that the film overall isn’t better and that David Spade doesn’t give half the effort of his co-star—Lapkus is just good enough to show how this movie could have worked.

Sandler has packaged far worse films for Netflix, and watching “The Wrong Missy” it’s easy to sit back and give in to the movie’s it-is-what-it-is-ness.

Spade and co-star Lauren Lapkus are weirdly charming as normal people, but the latest Happy Madison effort has no time for real romance.