Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

Very Cool!!!

Boring

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Davey Stone (Adam Sandler) is a slacker town buffoon. He dines and dash at the Chinese restaurant. In the following police chase, he crashes into the town's holiday celebration. It's Whitey Duvall (Adam Sandler)'s final year as referee for the youth basketball league and he suggests Davey be trained as referee instead of jail. It's a struggle for both of them as Whitey's optimism clash with Davey's bitterness.The Whitey voice is really really really annoying. It's very distracting. This could be a good Christmas story but I keep wondering if a different voice for Whitey would make this better. My answer is yes. There is actually a good redemption story which is always good for Christmas. The jokes are random and not very strong. The songs are bad and maybe that's the intention. This could have good.

As a non-Adam Sandler fan who has liked some of his stuff(Punch Drunk Love, Reign Over Me, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison and Anger Management, even Hotel Transylvania), Eight Crazy Nights is not as bad as Jack and Jill, Going Overboard, Little Nicky, You Don't Mess with the Zohan or I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. But it is one of his weaker films. The animation is decent, with some nice shadings and well-crafted backgrounds, the Chanukah Song is catchy and some credit is due that the film tried to incorporate adult themes that are relevant and didn't sugar-coat the festivities too much. The rest of the songs however are forgettable at best with some rather crude lyrics at times, Sandler's singing was nice at times but at others rather nasally. The story is well-intentioned and any story that plays like a Christmas Carol variant is always welcome, but it focuses so much on the themes present that any charm or heart was completely lost in translation. There is no warmth either, in fact Eight Crazy Nights as a film in general came across as too mean-spirited. The characters don't engage either, most grate on your nerves while others are completely bland. Same with the voice acting, with Sandler the whole just screams of a vanity project and much of the time especially with Whitey he is incredibly annoying. Rob Schneider and Jon Lovitz can be decent when the material is good but the humour doesn't let them do much and there is a lack of energy. Where Eight Crazy Nights is hurt most though is the dialogue and the humour, which alone makes it fail as a family film, if you count it as one, if anything actually it is animated geared for an adult audience. Children if they did see it are likely to not understand the innuendo, gags and dialogue while adults are likely to find it too immature to be funny. So vulgar and in such bad-taste the humour was that some of the jokes veered on or were offensive. That the story was very mean-spirited and there was no real sign of festive cheer made things even worse. To conclude, not as terrible as heard and there are definitely worse animations and films out there but aside from its good intentions, the animation and one good song Eight Crazy Nights from personal, subjective tastes was annoying, puerile, charmless and in a nutshell badly misconceived. If people like it though that's not a problem with me, as Sandler's films and humour has garnered some appeal that will divide audiences. It's just sad that there is a real inability on this site for people to be understanding of each other's opinion and instead make themselves sound arrogant(Sandler fans, detractors of well-received but admittedly divisive films like 2001, Drive and Tree of Life, and defenders of panned family films are the biggest offenders here which is why I'm mentioning it now). 3/10 Bethany Cox

Adam Sandler's Hanukkah movie was touching movie with many laughs and a Holiday message. It's unfair this movie got mostly negative reviews and it didn't make that much money at the box office.Sandler's voice work was a great contribution to the film. Whitey was a pretty funny and happy character. As so as Eleanore, the voice was a typical voice made by Sandler for his Jewish grandmother stereotype that he used to do in his stand-up shows.I liked the musical format of the movie. But the songs composed by Sandler just weren't that good. The only well-written song was "Technical Foul".

It's just a waste of good money and animation to try to make a movie of the unlikeable recurring Adam Sandler character "maladjusted, sullen, self-obsessed guy who doesn't get women at all". Adam Sandler can do brilliant funny characters and he can act, when pushed, but exploring any more of this dog-meat character just ain't worth it.The animation's workmanlike. The other characters - the kid's a stereotypical good kid and the weird sidekicks are just sort of annoying and unrealistic. The female is perfect girl, of course. Some of the writing and jokes were fine, and the music was cool enough. You could have started with the Hanukkah song and done a much funnier and lighter spirited film.