Any movie born from the partnership between Netflix and Happy Madison Productions is guaranteed to draw in big numbers, but Murder Mystery is the most successful by far. In fact, it’s one of the streaming service’s most-watched original movies ever after drawing in 73 million viewers in the first four weeks it was available after being added to the library in June 2019.
While a 44% score on Rotten Tomatoes might not be a stamp of the highest quality, it was still good enough to position the continental caper as the third highest-rated Happy Madison effort ever behind Hubie Halloween and 50 First Dates. Adam Sandler generates better chemistry with Jennifer Aniston that he has with any of his female leads with the exception of Drew Barrymore, and it’s the two solid central performances that power an otherwise lightweight comedy vehicle.
In October 2019 it was announced that a sequel was in development, which gives Murder Mystery the distinction of being just the second Sandler comedy to ever get a second installment after Grown Ups. Not much has been heard about the project since then, but we’ve now heard from our sources – the same ones that told us Sherlock Junior was in the works for Netflix long before it was confirmed – that the next adventure for the longtime married couple will take its fair share of cues from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary icon.
The first Murder Mystery positioned Sandler and Aniston as hapless pawns in a game they managed to stumble their way through, but the sequel will reportedly allow them to do some sleuthing of their own, which at least promises a new twist on the formula that should freshen things up a bit.
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