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All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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

This film is so appalling bad, I can't begin to review it.There is nothing of any substance in this film.There is no wit.There is no subtlety.There is no humour.I only managed to watch the first ten minutes. I was feeling nauseous by then.Both my young children were pleading with me to turn it off.Adam Sandler should have a public warning on all his films. If you want to refresh just how unfunny Mr. Sandler is, Google his filmography. It is like a criminal record of legendary unfunny cinematography.If you watch this film you will regret it for the rest of your life..... and possibly longer.

I just watched Nostalgia Critic do a review of this movie with the famous phone call.This is meant to be crazy.Adam Sandaler stars in this cartoon for a crowd that likes South Park too.This time he plays a drunk guy in a city with Things like reindeer's that pooh.The movie ends with a nice scene of a crowd singing a traditional song.It's a mess of dirty jokes, but with a lot of charm and drama too.The background animation is fine.It's also rare to see a Hannukah based cartoon too.Cool Down this summer with this Winter animated comedy.It's more like a Holiday parody than an actual one.8/10

Boy, am I glad that I didn't watch Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights during the holiday season. I would've been more morose than when I watched Bad Santa two weeks before Christmas last year. But after viewing that I was morose in the kind of way that is a tad more welcoming than hurting. If I had seen this film weeks leading up to Christmas, I'd feel slightly contemptible and sad inside.This is a cynical, depraved film that, even worse, has no reason to be so cynical and depraved. It's expected of Sandler to include scatological humor and slight-offensiveness in his films, sure, but it's unexpected of him to include such derogatory representations of his own culture and unnecessary rudeness in the time of the holidays. I can only imagine the stunned reactions of parents that were lured into this with the appeal of Christmas images and holiday sweetness on TV only to be met with one smarmy, laugh-free punch after another. It's so rare we get a film that deals with a holiday aside from Christmas during the December month; did the one Hanukkah film we get have to be directed by Adam Sandler? He voices several characters in the film, one of them Davey, who he also resembles, a Jewish man in his mid-thirties, deeply loathing of the holidays and all the cheer they bring to people. After being convicted of public drunkenness in yet another offense, just when he's about to go away to prison, Whitey Duvall (voiced by Sandler, as well), the local youth basketball coach, offers him a job as a referee down at the gym to which he accepts. Whitey is a short, kind old man, who lives with his wife Eleanor (also voiced by Sandler), and whole-heartedly believes that Davey could do right if he put his mind to it. The problem is Davey doesn't have any ambition to do right and consistently puts everyone around him down because he himself can't be happy with the cards he has been dealt.There's only so many times I can watch a man belittle and harass a sweet older man until it becomes nearly unwatchable. The constant abuse Davey brings to Whitey's life is mean-spirited just for the sake of being mean-spirited and rarely results in a laugh or a smile. Davey's attitude, alone, never sparks any particular laugh either. There's a big difference between someone who adopts a sour attitude because of past life experiences that have scarred him and a person who adopts one purely out of choice. Davey has one event in his life that happened at a young age that was supposed to spawn this cynicism and disgust for human happiness and holiday cheer. That was years ago and you think the anger and hostile would've worn off with the passage of almost two decades. Not a chance. He remains as mean and as nasty as if the event occurred yesterday.The film is also a musical, which isn't as awful as that sounds. Some songs, particularly "Davey's Song," are kind of infectious in their contempt for the holidays. "Technical Foul," the song Whitey sings when he's introducing Davey to all the rules of his own, is a cute little anthem as well. However, none of which allow Eight Crazy Nights to surpass its codger attitude to everything it sets up. But it feels even more insincere when the film abandons its mean-spiritedness for the fluffy, Hallmark-card cuteness that it feels obligated to tack on in the last act of the film to show Davey really has come a long way as a human. I would've had more respect for the film had it stayed true to its inherently grumpy roots.Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights is an unhealthy film for the holidays. A cheap, trite ordeal, at only seventy-six minutes, it's an obnoxious pictures that gives a new meaning to the word "humbug." It's a blatant ripoff of A Christmas Carol, and tries to justify its mean-spirited qualities as the formula for a "reformation," change-of-mind story that we've seen time and time again in better, more tolerable films.Voiced by: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, and Rob Schneider. Directed by: Seth Kearsley.

It's so stupid, it's funny. While this movie is not traditional Christmas or a Hanukah movie, it's still a holiday movie. The movie is full of crude humor, potty jokes, and tasteless puns. I can't even comprehend the scope of the suck-age that this movie amounts to, and I commend who ever, sir, for actually sitting through it. It's hard to watch, but it's kind of funny if you don't take it so serious. Once a happy boy and now the town delinquent, Davey Stone (voiced by Sandler) is given one last chance to redeem himself with the community after raising havoc during the holiday season. Davey is no less than the animation self-character of Adam Sandler's man yelling child. 33-year-old alcoholic troublemaker with a long criminal record who evade arrest and destroy public properties was about to be sentenced to jail when Whitney Duvall (also Sandler) a 70-year-old volunteer basketball referee comes forward at his trial offering Davey to community service as a referee-in-training for Whitey's Youth Basketball League. Under the terms of the community service, if Davey commits a felony before his sentence is completed, he will be sentenced to ten years in prison. While at the Youth Basketball court he meet single mom Jennifer Friedman, Davey's childhood girlfriend, and her son, Benjamin (Austin Stout). She is just there to play the love interest, and somebody to help Davey get back into the system of life. As time progresses, Davey and Whitey's relationship becomes more contentious, as Whitey's various attempts to encourage Davey are met with humiliation and assault. Whitey opens his home to Davey after his trailer burn down, where he meets Whitey's bald, diabetic fraternal twin sister Eleanor (Adam Sandler). Sandler does a great job in voicing Eleanor as most people couldn't tell that it was him. While there Davey begins to turn his life around. Davey's progress in reforming is halted when one morning Whitey recalls the events of Hanukkah twenty years ago about his parents. Davey withdrew from society and developed alcoholism, embarking on a life of juvenile delinquency and adult criminal behavior. The rest of the movie is him trying to make amends to both Whitey and the community, while trying to get over his past. I genuinely felt that Adam Sandler and his Saturday Night Live friends made a dumb comedy on purpose. There's nothing wrong with dumb comedies if done right. The problem is that it's a well animated film with a lot of quality that would turn off the viewers. First off, Davey is a main character that crude humor against others meant make the movie seem too mean-spirit. If there weren't any flashbacks, and other character mentioning how good he was at one time, it would seem Davey was just a bad apple. It's a mixed bag that follows the Happy Madison formula, but doesn't deliver as a holiday film. I think people didn't really expect it to be so crude. With Davey being really bipolar, it's the ultimate form of walking on eggshells. The other thing that hurts the movie is the amount of scatological, steady stream of fart, belches and butt-cracks, animal droppings, human feces and urine stains. It was way too much. What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The endurable songs co-written by Sandler take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance. The movie starts with Davey's Song ('I hate me' -It's kind of rare for a character filled with self-loathing to be aware of it, that works to establish the character. Long Ago is a song that of him missing the old time. The song 'technical foul' is the best of the movie songs establishing the relationship between Davey and the Duvalls. "Let It Out' Davey is so-so song, and need for Davey's chance of heart, but all the product placement ruins it. The numerous mascots of popular businesses come to life and attempt to force Davey to confront his past are not needed. It felt the movie went on to trying to buy business, than improve the story. The sub-plot of Whitney trying to win the All-Star Banquet, an annual town celebration in which one member of the community is recognized for positive contributions. Despite having vied for the award for over thirty five years, Whitey get pass over, and Davey is trying to stop that from happening this year with the song 'Bum Biddy'. There are other songs in different version of DVD. One DVD has the new installment of "The Chanukah Song" and a deleted song, called "At The Mall", sung by Whitey as he strolls through the mall in an alternate opening, which is included in the DVD release of the movie. Whitey is a great character, but some people might find his voice a bit annoying. Other supporting character are stereotypes or one-dimension; no less than Rob Schneider being Mr. Chang. The pacing in the film is annoying. The film has good design, effective animation, but Sandler wants to slam his sentiment and wallow in it too, and he compromises with the worst of both worlds. Given that this is the first feature-length film dedicated to Hanukkah, it's a little disappointing that history gets the brush-off and the Festival of Lights is relegated to serving as a backdrop for the movie's madcap mayhem. One of the raunchiest holiday movies ever made that has a legit story of human spirit. People are too high brow nowadays so check it out once.