You know you’re in trouble when the biggest laughs in your movie come from a Rob Schneider cameo. “The Wrong Missy” could very well be a hit for Netflix, but mostly because the streaming giant’s audiences have been willing to tolerate, hell embrace, this kind of dumbed-down comedy over the years. Lauren Lapkus plays Missy, a mentally unstable woman, with psychopathic tendencies, who, after a disastrous blind date, ends up joining Spade’s corporate stooge Tim Morris at a resort vacation in Hawaii, after he mistakenly sends an invitation-by-text to her instead of another woman. She’s the wrong missy, get it? The mean-spirited humor this movie disposes of feels like a lower-grade version of Sandler’s middle-of-the-road Netflix comedies. The main problem is that Spade, an actor who made a career out of being Chris Farley’s snide sidekick in “Tommy Boy” and “Black Sheep,” is not a leading man, never was and never will be. Meanwhile, Missy is such an annoyingly contrived and ADD-inflicted character that her out-of-control style turns us off the minute she appears on-screen. There is nothing believable about Missy, which is a real shame because Lapkus is a talented comedian, but this anarchic brand of idiotic comedy plays contrary t her strengths. Spade was once a comedy star in the ‘90s. 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). In “The Wrong Missy” he’s being given a shot to prove himself able to lead a movie again, the result is nothing short of catastrophic. [F] “The Wrong Missy” is available now on Netflix. Contribute Hire me
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