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80Sandler turns the joke around on his detractors and manages to lead a devilishly energetic vehicle that contains about as many laughs as his previous features combined.
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70Juvenile, sloppy and frequently, idiotically hilarious.
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67The film's rhythm is jerky, bouncing all around the place and making some of the setups feel unnecessary.
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67There are laughs to be had, yet the movie is, if anything, more strenuous than it is funny.
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63Sandler, at the center, is a distraction; he steals scenes, and we want him to give them back.
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63It's funnier than "Bedazzled," which isn't saying much.
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62Plenty of the tasteless gags don't fly, and for every celebrity cameo that works (a hilariously heavenly Reese Witherspoon), there are two or three that crash and burn.
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60Certainly Sandler's most ambitious work. It's not just a bid for respectability but a genuine allegory.
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60The kindest thing that can be said about Sandler's sense of humor is that it's unapologetically juvenile.
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60It's a clever idea bogged down in sophomoric sloppiness. Sitting through it doesn't feel like eternal damnation, but it's not exactly heaven, either. It's a $9.50 tour of adolescent purgatory.
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58Little Nicky will please Sandler's fans and likely won't win any converts.
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50A feast of bad taste, a demonic hog-wallow.
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50Adam Sandler finally has a good excuse: The devil made him do it.
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50Little Nicky is but a meek gross-out cousin of "The Waterboy."
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50Hell itself is going to hell in Sandler's new comedy.
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50Sandler repeats his sweet-souled doofus routine, with nerdy Patricia Arquette as the object of his affections.
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42Though it's debatable whether Sandler is squandered or just supremely annoying here, the film's flaws aren't entirely his fault.
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40Diehard Sandler fans will probably find it uproarious, but others will have to make do with the occasional chuckle.
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38Don't put yourself through this hell.
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25Stoner jokes, awful gags, and just stupid stuff equate to one bad movie.
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25Crude and giggly.
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25Full of kerplunkingly unfunny jokes and ex-"Saturday Night Live" cast members turning up to do shtick.
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20Where's Sandler in all this? Lost in gimmicks that smack of desperation. Damn it.
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20How much you enjoy this movie depends on how funny you find Sandler talking out the side of his mouth with a gravelly squawk -- for the entire movie.
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10Sandler deserves to be damned to the pits of hell for this witless masturbatory comedy.
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10Disgusting and humorless mess.
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10Adam Sandler displays no virtuosity and stirs no pathos in this special-effects comedy.
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0Bad actors, bad music and bad plot make it a hellish bummer.
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0Little Nicky will redefine the phrase "worst movie ever," because it might actually be the worst movie ever.
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