The Wrong Missy: reviews

What the critics say average 4.0 from 15 outlets

• 6.0 EmpireDavid Hughes The Wrong Missy is a little hit-and-miss, but it’s funny and inventive, and Lapkus is good enough to make the word “zany” tolerable again. Read
• 6.0 EspinofKiko Vega A madcap, (slightly) unpredictable comedy that more than delivers the good jokes you'd expect from a Sandler family product will always be welcome in my house. Read
• 5.0 Roger EbertBrian Tallerico It’s almost a shame that the film overall isn’t better and that David Spade doesn’t give half the effort of his co-star because Lapkus is just good enough to allow one to see how this movie could have worked. Read
• 5.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman The Wrong Missy is a harmless dumb-meets-smart-mouth comedy that doesn’t necessarily feed your appetite for more Netflix throwaways. But it does make you want to see Lauren Lapkus’s next act. Read
• 5.0 Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen The Wrong Missy is a lightweight throwaway, the kind of movie it is difficult to suggest one actually choose to watch, but if your algorithm somehow lands on it provides a certain harmless diversion. Read
• 4.2 IndiewireKate Erbland A gross-out comedy masquerading only in the flimsiest sense as a romance, The Wrong Missy still knows its way around genre convention, but Spindel and company seem compelled to use those expectations to tee up cruel gags that do little to advance the film’s plot or central romance. Read
• 4.0 New York TimesAmy Nicholson 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. Read
• 4.0 El PeriódicoJuan Manuel Freire It's also strange to see her waste her talent on a comedy that isn't especially absurdist or transgressive, or even remotely interesting. An artist of her calibre deserves better projects. Read
• 3.5 MicropsiaDiego Lerer Well, let's be honest: The Wrong Missy doesn't fully achieve any of those three goals. Read
• 3.3 The PlaylistNicholas Laskin The Wrong Missy is one of those movies that takes a brain-dead sitcom scenario to the outer limits of what an audience is willing to tolerate. Read
• 3.3 The A.V. ClubIgnatiy Vishnevetsky Tyler Spindel, a Happy Madison veteran, directs The Wrong Missy with all of the worst tendencies of the Sandler shingle style. It’s a series of claustrophobically unfunny scenes that drag on and on, interspersed with establishing shots and music cues that look and sound like they were licensed from a stock library. Read
• 3.0 The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore Even with locked-down consumers scraping the bottom of the Netflix content trough, this new addition to the lineup is pretty dreary. Read
• 2.5 The Globe and MailBarry Hertz Overriding everything is a profound sense of laziness. Jokes do not land here so much as they ooze forth, slow and noxious. Read
• 2.5 Movie NationRoger Moore Spade practically cringes through this thing, not a good look when you’re a high-mileage 55. And a little of Lapkus, shrieking profanities at children, lap-dancing at the luau, goes a long way. Read
• 2.0 PolygonKaren Han What’s frustrating is that The Wrong Missy isn’t entirely devoid of self-awareness. Read