- Studio: Columbia Pictures
- Release Date: Nov 27, 2002
- Starring: Adam Sandler, Austin Stout, Jackie Sandler, Rob Schneider
- Summary:
- Director: Seth Kearsley
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Animation, Musical
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 27
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Mixed: 4 out of 27
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Negative: 20 out of 27
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75What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance.
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50Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest.
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38To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah.
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38Do not, under any circumstances, consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 24
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Mixed: 3 out of 24
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Negative: 5 out of 24
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KevinK.10This movie was brilliant, and anyone who gives it a zero is antisemitic.
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KM10Typical that the majority of the critics hated this, but I love it, poop jokes and all.
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DaedricLrd10They should make more of these. Its funny.
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LoganH5Not a good movie, but not a bad one either.
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