'The Wrong Missy' A Review

The Wrong Missy is a romcom from Happy Madison(aka Adam Sandler and Co.). The movie opens on Tim(David Spade) going to a blind date at a restaurant where he's tricked into an uncomfortable situation by his date Missy(Lauren Lapkus), she's antagonizing and wild so he attempts to bail out the bathroom only to injure himself. Flash forward to months later and Tim has not dated since, he accidentally exchanges luggage Melissa(Molly Sims) at the airport and the two strike up some chemistry. With an upcoming worktrip to Hawaii Tim takes the plunge and invites Melissa along only to find out it Missy instead. Trouble and romance ensue!

Lapkus is by far the comedic fire and saving grace of the movie, Spade is surprisingly restrained and likable as the searching middle-aged worker bee and the two have decent chemistry although she is twenty years his junior(which they kind of address in a brief throwaway). But other than Lapkus there's no real surprises from the cast, she almost has enough energy and unpredictability to carry the movie but there's only so much she can do with the tired, paint by numbers script and the tired and old Sandler stable.

Pleasing if not quite entertaining the luminescent Lapkus overshadows some but not all of the triteness of the premise and the dullness of the cast.

Currently streaming on Netflix.

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