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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 27 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 37 Ratings

  • Starring: Adam Sandler, Austin Stout, Jackie Sandler, Rob Schneider
  • Summary: Davey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption -- spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail. (Columbia Pictures) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 27
  2. Negative: 20 out of 27
  1. 75
    What'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.
  2. 50
    Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest.
  3. To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah.
  4. Reviewed by: Christine Dolan
    38
    Do not, under any circumstances, consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 24
  2. Negative: 5 out of 24
  1. KevinK.
    10
    This movie was brilliant, and anyone who gives it a zero is antisemitic.
  2. KM
    10
    Typical that the majority of the critics hated this, but I love it, poop jokes and all.
  3. DaedricLrd
    10
    They should make more of these. Its funny.
  4. LoganH
    5
    Not a good movie, but not a bad one either.

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