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Eight Crazy Nights
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Voices of Adam Sandler, Jackie
Titone, Austin Stout, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
Columbia
Pictures |
| Web Site: |
www.eightcrazynights.com |
| Kiddie Movie: |
It's not a kiddie cartoon. |
| Date Movie: |
It's not a date cartoon. |
| Gratuitous Sex: |
It's got a three-boobed woman. |
| Gratuitous
Violence: |
Wedgies and tumbling in a
port-a-potty. |
| Action: |
None. |
| Laughs: |
Ehh. |
| Memorable
Scene: |
The holiday banquet was very
disturbing. |
| Memorable
Quote: |
Whitey's sister: "Whitey, they
were giving lobster bibs in the bathroom!" |
| Directed By: |
Seth Kearsley |
| Produced By: |
Adam Sandler, Jack
Giarraputo, Allen Covert |
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Eight Crazy Nights
A Movie Review |
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Adam Sandler had a chance to make a Holiday classic.
Alright, maybe not a classic, but at least a nice movie you could
watch with the kids. Instead he made "Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy
Nights."How’s this for a nice holiday story. Davey is in his early
thirties. He’s the town drunk, causing havoc for anyone in a good
mood, especially during the holidays. In front of the judge again,
well, the judge is ready to throw the book at him except an old man,
Whitey, stands up and wants to take Davey under his wing, hoping to
bring Davey back to the good side of society. The judge agrees, so now
Davey is an assistant referee to Whitey for the youth leagues. There
was something in his past that made Davey the way he is. Whitey knows
it, the old love of his life Jennifer knows it, only Davey can’t face
his past to get to his future. With the help of Whitey, Davey
eventually comes to terms with his past, and in the process helps
Whitey to realize the love the townsfolk have for him.
It’s a nice premise, could be sort of nice for the entire family,
except Sandler and his writers turn to crap to try to make a nice
story funny. And I literally mean crap, as in once scene where Davey
finds it funny to dump Whitey over in a port-a-potty, Whitey emerging
covered in crap, Davey hosing Whitey down turning him into a crap-sicle,
and then having deer lick the crap off of Whitey. And, oh yea, the
movie also has a three-boobed woman.
This movie is rated PG-13 and it’s not because Sandler and friends
made it funny with poop and sex jokes. It’s because Sandler and
friends made it un-funny with poop and sex jokes, and this makes me
somewhat sad because Sandler could have either a) made a decent
gross-out cartoon or b) dropped his name from the marquee (therefore
not scaring away some parents from bringing their kids), dropped the
poop and sex jokes, and made a holiday cartoon that could have been
rated PG, or even G, that the entire family could enjoy. Then,
of course, Sandler could have used real people in this movie, instead
of it being a cartoon, and it probably would have been funnier because
real people are involved. The potential was there for either, instead
they made a nice story into crap.
I generally like Adam Sandler style humor, but this movie just lost
it on too many levels. It’s 1 ½ star out of 5 for "Adam Sandler’s
Eight Crazy Nights." And, oh yea, the movie opens with a movie
short called "A Day With Meatball," an unfunny movie about a dog.
That’s it for this one! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
