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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: What Are We Made Of?
Review: Adam Sandler is a great comedian with a lot of talent, potential, and resources. He can do anything he wants and I'm glad that he made an attempt at making an animated movie. Perhaps he shouldn't have even tried because EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS is just plain terrible. Other than a couple of scenes and a soundtrack that's better than the movie itself, this movie is horrible. I mean, the Farrelly Brothers would be hard pressed to come up with something as sick and warped as this film. There's a guy who eats his jock strap, talking deer who eat feces, a woman with three breasts, and a poor old man whose one foot is smaller than the other and is covered in white hair. Each one of these creatures receive no sympathy (well the old guy does in the end) and instead are used totally as the butt of jokes. Davy Jones' conversion at the end of the film is totally unrealistic and in some ways even inappropriate. This is a film only for die-hard Sandler fans and that's about all, however I am giving this movie 2 stars instead of 1 because of the kicking soundtrack.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hilarious
Review: I loved this movie. It was hilarious and Sandler's fans especially will be cracking themselves up. I must admit that it is very crude at parts, so although the cover looks appealing for youngsters, it probably isn't suitable for the young ones. Although, I must admit that a lot of the jokes will go right over their heads.

The message is good and the overall story has a message. I cried for Whitey, and I think any movie that moves a person to the point of crying is worth a watch. But it is HILARIOUS, from the triple breasted lady, to Whitey and his sister, to the deer (who's significance I really didn't understand).

A must see for anyone <over 13> with a good (but stupid) sense of humour and a desire for a couple of laughs!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A very disappointing movie
Review: Its sad that a animation that is clearly made to attract children was made with such rude humor and disrespect towards others. How this animation could be recomended for anyone is beyond me. Shame on you Adam Sandler that your ability is not used for more postive purposes.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 1 star, since there's no "zero stars" available
Review: I can't believe the reviewer who turned this off after the first 30 minutes. How in the world did anyone watch this for 30 minutes? So I only watched 10 minutes, but a movie that starts the way this one does is not getting any more of my time. My hairdresser highly recommended this, and all I have to say to her is, don't give up your day job to become a movie critic! Total garbage.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I will admit that I am not an Adam Sandler fan, but I have to give him credit that this was a very hilarious movie. I was not expecting it to be any good, but it was very funny.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: One of the worst I have ever seen
Review: Do not buy or rent this. Adam Sandler is officially a no talent hack. This is not for children or anyone for that matter unless lame brained scattological humor with absolutely no point is your thing.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: From how I hear it...
Review: This sounded like a VERY good movie when it was in theatres. Instead my friend and I watched Die Another Day. Adam Sandler has always been one of my favorites and I got a bit over excited about the previews and the fact that its animated. I havent seen it, but I know its a good movie. The CRUDE humor can appeal mostly to teens or children. Not much to adults. So maybe rent it if your looking for a big laugh or so. If you love this movie and seen it,then buy it. Its not like its a waste of money on a good movie like this.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a mixed bag but some of it is fun
Review: "Eight Crazy Nights" is like an animated holiday special as it might be envisioned and conceived by the Farrelly Brothers - rude, crude, vulgar, yet surprisingly conformist in its values and themes.

The people actually responsible for the film are director Seth Kearsley, and writers Brooks Arthur, Allen Covert, Brad Isaacs and Adam Sandler. Sandler also provides the voice for the lead character, Davey Stone, a 30-something curmudgeon who hates the holidays and goes out of his way to ruin them for everyone else. As a public menace, Davey finds himself assigned by court order to assist a sweet, but addled septuagenarian who coaches a youth basketball team.

Part of the fun of "Eight Crazy Nights" comes from the strange dichotomy between the film's crude humor and the picture postcard small town setting. This film looks like every Christmas special ever made, yet when the characters open their mouths...well, all I can say is that "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" or "Frosty the Snowman" this ain't. Some people may be offended by the antics contained in this film, and it is certainly not recommended viewing for very small children. But the film is really no worse in tone than the average Sandler comedy and the humor is nothing that every prepubescent boy hasn't heard or even indulged in himself (though the scatological sequences involving some deer are a bit much). In fact, one of the criticisms that can be leveled against the film is that it really isn't raunchy enough, that it wants to have it both ways. It wants to come across as a daring and iconoclastic image-buster, yet it can't resist employing the very same heart tugs that virtually all other holiday films employ and which this film is supposed to be a reaction against. Unlike, say, "South Park," which makes no concessions to sentimentality, "Eight Crazy Nights" loses its nerve and becomes just another warm-hearted and cuddly holiday-themed film at the end. That's too bad because we really could use a corrosive tonic long about this time of the year. After all who decreed that all holiday films had to be pure sweetness and light? Isn't running over grandma with a reindeer also a holiday tradition?

Still, "Eight Crazy Nights" does have some very shrewd, very clever, very funny moments contained within it, enough to almost compensate for the conventional gooey ending - and it does a nice job parodying the musical interludes generally found in more conventional Disney-type animated features as well. Moreover, "Eight Crazy Nights" has historical significance in that it is the first movie I can remember in which Chanukah achieves equal billing with Christmas. That's a long overdue correction, I must say, although I'm just not sure that Jewish mothers quite had this in mind when they envisioned it finally happening. Oy vay!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: oh whatever.... I LOVED IT!
Review: As you know... this is probably one of the most hated movies ever... and why is that?? Because these days, people just want to see boring, crappy romantic comedy junk like "Love Actually" and "Two Weeks Notice"..... Well I don't care about the negative reviews, I loved this movie and I'll admit that I bought it and I've watched it to the point where I know every song by heart :)

I think this movie is somewhat similar to "Bad Santa" (another hillarious film that is worth seeing), in that it deals with a drunk no-life loser who just CANT STAND the holidays AT ALL (much like me,,, seeing & hearing Christmas stuff everywhere gets SO incredibly annoying!) This is a hillarious story of a "crazy 33-year-old Jewish guy" who always has to do bad things to the town during the holidays, especially on the first night of Hanukkah,, and there's a reason why he's this way,, and he just keeps seeming to run from admitting that reason...(I won't tell you what it is, dont wanna ruin it :)

This movie has great voices by Sandler of course, and Rob Schnieder is great as the narrator and the Chinese waiter... Also I love all the songs, especially "I Hate Love, I Hate You, I Hate Me", "Technical Foul", and "Let It Out, Davey"

Believe it or not this movie DOES have a good messege behind it-actually a few- one is that you shouldn't run from your emotions, and the other is that the most ignored people can do the nicest things (which goes so for Whitey, the old man who helps Davey)

I would say that this & "Bad Santa" are 2 great movies to slap the "happy-go-lucky" holiday season junk in the face, and if you can't appreciate this kind of humor, then go watch some Julia Roberts movie or some teenybopper movie like "10 Things I Hate About You"!!!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: sandler is da bomb
Review: 8 crazy nights was a movie that was touching and hilarious. Adam Sandler was good and should be seen by families.


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