The Wrong Missy (Netflix film)
The Wrong Missy (Netflix film)
The Wrong Missy is a romantic comedy film released by Netflix on May 13, 2020.
It stars David Spade and Lauren Lapkus.
It was directed by Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Kevin Grady, and Judit Maull.
Premise
Tim (David Spade) thinks he's invited the woman of his dreams (Molly Sims) on a work retreat to Hawaii, realizing too late that he mistakenly texted someone from a nightmare blind date (Lauren Lapkus).
Cast
David Spade as Tim Morris
Lauren Lapkus as Missy, the wrong Missy and love interest to Tim
Geoff Pierson as Jack Winstone
Sarah Chalke as Julia
Molly Sims as Melissa/Missy, the right Missy
Nick Swardson as Nate
Jackie Sandler as Jess, also known as 'The Barracuda'
Chris Witaske as Rich
Roman Reigns as Tatted Meathead (Gary)
Bobby Lee as Toki Dum Dum/Check-In Desk Employee
Rob Schneider as Komante
Jorge Garcia as Guy on Plane
Jared Sandler as Stuart
Sadie Sandler and Sunny Sandler as Lobby Strongs
Lori Pelenise Tuisano as Bus Woman
Vanilla Ice as himself
Reviews & Controversy
"Between broken bones — yes, plural — and bonks to the head, Spade’s corporate dork spends most of the mercifully short running time willing himself to be invisible.
The leading male vacuum allows Lapkus’s Missy to dominate every scene with hostile come-ons, projectile vomiting and demonic laughter.
Yet, 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.
One might even swoon when, in a romantic bubble bath, she places rose petals over her eyelids and dubs herself Hellstar.
Who has time for shame when there’s a Vanilla Ice cameo to squeeze in before the closing credits?" Amy Nicholson for The New York Times
"In between bizarre diversions, including an entire subplot dedicated to the state of Tim’s boss’ marriage and a sequence involving shadow puppets, Tim and Missy occasionally remember to act like real people (and the film remembers to act like a rom-com).
That’s about when the plot goes wild, from a threesome subplot to a minor character to a lemon out of their butt, to a shark attack brought on by puke.
Such is the road to romance in “The Wrong Missy.”
It’s messy and gross, mean and directionless, and only briefly interested in being at all sweet.
Loving might not be wrong, but under these conditions, it’s certainly not right."
-Kate Erbland on Indiewire[2]
Viewers were left uncomfortable after some scenes depicted Missy (Lapkus) forcing herself sexually onto Tim.
"Does no one realize that these scenes included acts of molestation and rape being portrayed as comedy?
'Missy' forcibly putting her hands into his pants on the plane and having sex with him - both while he was asleep, is molestation and rape.
If the roles were reversed and 'Missy' was in 'Tim's' position people's reaction to this would've been completely different.
Just because women raping men is less spoken about, doesn't make it any better.
This is horrible.
I admit, the movie had parts that made me laugh but after seeing those scenes, it just left me upset."
wrote a reviewer on Google.