Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Oliver Thatcher Watson This film is one of those films that depresses the living crap out of me knowing that so much effort was put into this garbage. I say that because this films animation is surprisingly really good. Almost as good as a Disney film from the late 90s. But the animation is no where near enough to make up for unfunny jokes, mean-spirited premise, overwhelming amount of product placements that would make even the most forgiving viewer sick, and a really bad story. There is no doubt in my mind that this film is one of Sandler's worst. Granted, this movie isn't awful, considering its great animation. But for a holiday film, this is nothing memorable in the slightest. The humor used in this film is not only not that funny, but some jokes and scenes in this film is down-right disgusting. It's almost worse than Movie 43. I don't think I'm able to recommend this film to anyone as there's little to nothing great about it. The animation is no where near enough to save this film. In fact, the great animation seems really off putting for what this film is about, and I couldn't be more depressed knowing that all that effort was wasted on this joke of a holiday special. The only people that I can think of that would like this film are the absolute biggest Adam Sandler fans, but even then, they and every one else would be better off watching something else.

Python Hyena Eight Crazy Nights (2002): Dir: Seth Kearsley / Voices: Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Jon Lovitz, Lainie Kazan, Kevin Nealon: Dividing line of good and bad with the celebration of Adam Sandler's celebrity through his own animation. It is highly adult content with a title that doesn't represent the film. The idea in itself is fine from a Sandler perspective. The plot introduces Davey Stone looking much like Adam Sandler. His hate and chaos cause destruction, which lands him in court but is saved a ten year jail sentence when 70 year old basketball coach Whitey suggests taking Stone in and teach him the values of life. Formula story that echoes the far superior It's a Wonderful Life, with a cop out ending but director Seth Kearsley knows the Sandler persona well. That is pretty much the film's one claim, and that doesn't say much in the stretch of things. Sandler provides a majority of the voices and he does well lending his personality. What truly sucks is that supporting players are left with next to nothing. Other than Sandler other voices include Rob Schneider, Jon Lovitz and Lainie Kazan as well as Kevin Nealon voicing the Mayor. They more or less provide nothing but bit characters who factor in when convenient. The potential was here but the payoff left much to be desired. Fine animation but vulgarity should be avoided by children so that parents can avoid crazy nights ahead. Score: 3 ½ / 10

SnoopyStyle 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.

Steve Pulaski 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.