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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

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Reviews Counted:104

Fresh:13

Rotten:91

Average Rating:3.1/10

Consensus: Sandler returns to his roots in this nauseating concoction filled with potty humor and product placements.

Runtime: 76 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $23,341,502

Synopsis: Adam Sandler and director Seth Kearsley present an animated Hanukkah tale with ADAM SANDLER'S EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS. Davey Stone (Sandler) is lurching down a wayward path. He's a drunk and aging... Adam Sandler and director Seth Kearsley present an animated Hanukkah tale with ADAM SANDLER'S EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS. Davey Stone (Sandler) is lurching down a wayward path. He's a drunk and aging delinquent, infamous in Dukesberry for spreading misery as deftly as he belches full sentences. He's facing prison when Whitey Duvall (Sandler again), a lovable, physically challenged man, proposes that Stone work with him at the community center as a referee for the local basketball league. The surly Stone accepts the job, and moves in with Whitey and his twin sister, Eleanore (also voiced by Sandler). But the true test is whether Stone can rise above his self-destructive habits in order to reunite with his former girlfriend, Jennifer (Jackie Titone), and act as a role model for her young son, Benjamin (Austin Stout). The snow-covered landscapes in EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS have a pleasing, three-dimensional realism that's as cheerful as a Hallmark holiday card. Sandler, with his wide range of inane, high-pitched voices, is as funny as ever, punctuating the innocent world of EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS with the refreshingly irreverent brand of humor he displayed in HAPPY GILMORE, THE WEDDING SINGER, and BIG DADDY. Though the film isn't really for kids, Sandler and Kearsley manage to make even the more daring animated characters--like one with three breasts--seem harmless. EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS also features the voices of Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider, and Tyra Banks. [More]

Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon, Jon Lovitz, Tyra Banks

Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon, Jon Lovitz, Tyra Banks, Norm Crosby, Rob Schneider, Austin Stout, Jackie Titone

Director: Seth Kearsley

Director: Seth Kearsley
Screenwriter: Adam Sandler, Brooks Arthur, Allen Covert, Brad Isaacs
Producer: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Allen Covert
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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The only real achievement that a movie as puerile and moronic as Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights can claim is that it risks giving both Christmas movies and animation a bad name.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
12/28/02
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Adam Sandler's goal may have been to provide a holiday movie with Chanukah as the central celebration, but it's not suitable for children and not entertaining to most adults.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
07/18/07
Cheryl DeWolfe
Cheryl DeWolfe
Apollo Guide

One of the oddest animated holiday films you'll ever see, 8 Crazy Nights is also probably the funniest.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
11/27/02
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

A bigger holiday downer than your end-of-year 401(k) statement.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
11/29/02
Scott Craven
Scott Craven
Arizona Republic

There are good movies and there are bad movies. And then there are movies that make us tired.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
11/27/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Audiences have at least 80 reasons to reject Eight Crazy Nights.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
12/27/02
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike, Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
12/08/02
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

This is foul-mouthed, gross, and about as relevant to either Hanukkah or Christmas as hanging a turd on a Christmas tree.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
11/11/02
Jamie Russell
Jamie Russell
BBC

Priceless.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
11/27/02
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
11/30/02
Boston Phoenix

An abomination so horrendously bad that it defies description.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
11/29/02
Wade Major
Wade Major
Boxoffice Magazine

There are sporadic laughs to be had from this gruesome guff, but most of them are nervous relieved titters when its not as bad as you feared rather than bellylaughs of genuine amusement.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/02/08
Channel 4 Film

If there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout, this is the one.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
11/27/02
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Who is this movie for? Not kids, who don't need the lesson in repugnance. It's also not smart or barbed enough for older viewers -- not everyone thinks poo-poo jokes are 'edgy.'

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
11/26/02
Mark Caro
Mark Caro
Chicago Tribune

Every bit as violent, profane, mean-spirited and artificially sentimental as any live-action Adam Sandler movie.

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
11/29/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
N/R

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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Eight Crazy Nights is a shallow, crude, mean-spirited and painfully unfunny excursion into lunacy...

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
12/02/02
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

Potty-mouthed enough for PG-13, yet not as hilariously raunchy as South Park, this strangely schizo cartoon seems suited neither to kids or adults.

Full Review Source: Citysearch | comment Comment
11/26/02
J. C. Farrow
J. C. Farrow
Citysearch

An earnest Scrooge story with a heart covered in excrement.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
12/03/02
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Not even Steven Spielberg has dreamed up such blatant and sickening product placement in a movie.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
12/02/02
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
 
 
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