"Happy Gilmore 2" director Kyle Newacheck defended the decision to kill off Virginia, telling /Film: "There's always a concern when you're playing with that type of darkness. But I don't know, I was never really concerned because it is the driving force [of the film]. If you pull that out, then what do you have? You don't have anything real."

Bowen, 55, has looked back on her upbringing with a real estate developer father who taught her a "golden rule" about success.

Happy Gilmore 2 finally premiered on Netflix after a decades-long gap from the first movie, but this time, the movie went in an offbeat direction with a major death within the first half of the film.

Grading the film a B-, IndieWire quipped that "More often than not, it makes the shot" and commended Sandler on his comedic stylings, noting: "It is also often quite funny. Most of that humour comes care of Sandler, who slips back into Happy with something like grizzled ease."

Netflix users have been flocking to watch the long-awaited sequel to Adam Sandler's Happy Gilmore - and those who have seen it have now shared their thoughts on the film

The opening minutes of the long-awaited Happy Gilmore sequel reveal a legacy character has been shockingly killed off.