Now that most of the summer movie release slate, between May and July, has been rescheduled, we will have to look towards streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney, and AppleTV+ to quench our moviegoing appetites this summer. Netflix’s “The Wrong Missy” might not be the kind of counter-programming people wanted in place of “The French Dispatch,” but, hey, it’ll have to do for now.
This David Spade-starring romantic-comedy seems to be following the same schema as Adam Sandler’s Netflix goof-fests; there’s a lot of silliness, a lot of crude humor and plenty of slapstick. Beware of a comedy where the main character falls off a cliff, not to mention hitting rocks and trees on the way down, and still, somehow, miraculously, survives. Turn your brain off for this one.
Spade was once a comedy stay in the ‘90s, playing sidekick to Chris Farley in the classic raunch-fests “Black Sheep” and “Tommy Boy.” However, after “Joe Dirt” Spade’s star faded and he was mostly relegated to box-office bombs (“Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,” “The Benchwarmers,”) and cameos in Sandler movies (although Spade’s Wikipedia does mention “Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser” exists and was released straight to Crackle in 2015).
Don’t get me wrong, I hope there are laughs in this latest Spade endeavor, not to mention his talented comedic co-star here is Lauren Lapkus, who most definitely deserves to be seen more on-screen. The official synopsis is as follows:
“When Tim Morris meets his dream girl and their relationship quickly escalates through texts, he throws caution to the wind and invites her to his company’s corporate retreat on an island resort… However, when a past blind date from hell shows up at the airport for the weekend getaway instead, he learns too late that he’s been texting “The Wrong Missy.”
“The Wrong Missy” is set to arrive on Netflix on May 13th.