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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It grows on you...
Review: I wasn't really sure what to make of this movie when I first saw it this holiday season. Since than it has been on once a day for the last week (my son) and I like it. Everyone here seems to have a song they like, a scene they like. The songs are catchy (though NOT original). I'm NOT an Adam Sandler fun. However, I do enjoy Ralph Bakshi's adult oriented animated movies, so maybe that's why I like this.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: So stupid, its funny
Review: I went to my sisters boyfriends house, and his roomate bought a couple of DVDs and this was one of them. I saw it, it wasnt boring, but it was stupid and it was funny, I expected more from this film, but its worht watching if like comedy and Adam Sandler.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Okay. There is a movie worse than Stargate.
Review: Let me start out by saying that I enjoy Adam Sandler movies. I like Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. Sure, they're not great films, but they've given me plenty of laughs. So when I tell you that this is one of the most dreadful movies I've ever watched, you'll know it isn't because of some bias against Mr. Sandler.

This may be the worst movie ever made. It is cloying, stupid, unfunny, weird, and pathetic--in a bad way. I could go on about the awful story, the grating voices, the cliches and schmaltz, or the bad songs. (Yes, Virginia, this is a musical. The worst musical ever unleashed on film. No, I haven't seen every musical; but you don't need to in order to fully understand the depths to which this film sinks.)

Don't see it. Don't buy it. Don't rent it. Don't send any signal that they should make more cr*p like this.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Movie!!!!
Review: This movie is a great and funny movie. It has funny things. Whitey Duvall is funny. The little old man really brings the movie to life. Davey Stone is (Adam Sandler) in the movie. He is a drunk Jewish guy who has no parents. He ends up living with Whitey and his sister Eleanore. This movie is very funny all around!!! If you have a son or daughter under the age of 13 I would get it. It is very funny.The plot of the story is Whitey trying to win an all-star patch. The patch means the whole world to Whitey. I am not going to tell what happens, but you will love it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funniest sad movie ever!
Review: I LOVED this movie. It had a mix of funny stuff, sad stuff, and gross stuff. Unfortanly, the sad part is about the kids mom and dad dying. I am a HUGE fan of adam sandler and I think this is one of his greatest work of art. Plus the DVD has great extras. For example: It has a ad. for the NBA that is very funny.

If you have a kid over the age of 8, GET THIS DVD! (I would know because I am 10.)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Adam Sandler's eight crazy nights
Review: I thought this was a big dissapointment! It is crude beyond "good taste." I wish I could return the DVD but I don't have my receipt so I'll just "trash it!"

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: humor!!!
Review: Anyone who could watch that scene where Davey speaks on Whitey's behalf at the banquet and breaks out into song, without splitting his or her sides should just give up now. When the Irish cop and the Chinese businessman break out in the traditional "Bum Bitty Bum" number and dance the turn of the century Eastern European Jewish dance number I thought I would laugh myself right into Creedmore.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Eight Crazy Nights
Review: I couldn't tell you how this movie ends, we turned it off after the first half-hour. Not appropriate for children, not entertaing for adults. Our dog even left the room. Don't waste your money.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Here Comes Chanukah! Unfortunately, it ain't too great...
Review: "Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights" could have been a really sweet Christmas story with a heartwarming message at its core. Instead, it's a vile, heartless animated feature that swerves back and forth between naughty and nice, not sure what to become. Take, for instance, the scene towards the end, when the mayor of Dukesbury (voiced by Kevin Nealon) cracks a very unfunny joke in the town hall, and the citizens of Dukesbury start to snort snot all over their tables, and some deer outside get in such a violent fit of laughter that feces squirts from behind their tails with little *splurt* sounds.

Does that sound like a good-natured family comedy to you? That's because it isn't. The film stars, in one way or another, Adam Sandler, who has finally found a suitable medium to let loose all his crudeness without (a) getting the film banned from every country in the world, and (b) injuring himself in the process. Because there's something innocent about cartoons. In "Eight Crazy Nights," his self-crafted character, Davey Stone, is on the run from the town police after ripping off a Chinese man (voiced by Rob Schneider). He picks up the lid of a trashcan and slides down a railing like Vin Diesel did in "xXx." It's funny to see a limitless and physically fit Sandler, yes, but right as the scene starts to become fun, we get a worn out gag involving squeezed melons that has been done countless times before, including last year's "Austin Powers in Goldmember."

Davey resents the holidays, and he especially resents the "eight crazy nights" of Hanukkah, because when he was 12 years old his parents died on their way to his basketball game. Ever since, Davey has been the town troublemaker, getting stoned (hence his last name?) and making out with cars. (Don't ask.)

Davey gets picked up by the cops and is sentenced to ten years in jail, when the town eccentric, Whitey (also voiced by Sandler), offers the judge to make Davey a basketball referee in hopes of changing his ill spirits. The judge agrees, but as soon as Davey leaves court he throws Whitey into a porta-potty and knocks it down a hill. Whitey emerges with human feces all over his body, and Davey then sprays him with water, saying, "See ya' later, poopsicle."

That's why the film careens from gross-out gags to heartwarming moments and then back to juvenile bodily function jokes. You've probably heard a lot of people complain about bodily function humor and how bad it is, but this will disgust the most crude and vile audience members. I did for me. (Hey, I'm joking! About being crude. Er...never mind.)

A lot of people hate Adam Sandler and his humor, but I think they're just all jumping on the bandwagon. Ironically, his "breakthrough role" in P.T. Anderon's 2002 art film "Punch-Drunk Love" has been praised as his crowning triumph. I, personally, still enjoy "Happy Gilmore" and "Big Daddy." His comedies are very basic but also, on occasion, very funny. I also like "Saturday Night Live"-type humor a lot, so that may have something to do with it.

Is "Eight Crazy Nights" a bad movie? I guess. It's hard to place a finger on. It's mean-spirited and vile, and that's where the film fails, but when the film has its touching moments they are touching. Too bad it always has to ruin the mentioned scenes by ending them with lame poop and/or seizure jokes. Again, don't ask.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great holiday movie
Review: This is an excellent movie. I love it more than any other holiday movie I have seen. The songs are comical and although past reviews have said they ruin the movie I would say they make the movie more enjoyable. What holiday show/movie does not break out into song in the middle of it. Great holiday Sandler movie


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