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.
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:4
Rotten:25
Average Rating:3.4/10
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
Reviews for Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
It's about time that all the Christmas movies out there were balanced with a decent Hannukah movie. Sadly, this isn't it.
Adam Sandler's 8 Crazy Nights is 75 wasted minutes of Sandler as the voice-over hero in Columbia Pictures' perverse idea of an animated holiday movie.
If there was ever a movie where the upbeat ending feels like a copout, this is the one.
Nights is festooned with yards of gross-out jokes, sniggering allusions and, astonishingly, a sentimental climax that's more repellent than any of the crude effluvia the film is drenched with.
On the whole, this lively, bittersweet Columbia release works well and is sure to connect strongly with fans of Sandler at his most free-wheeling and uninhibited.
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