Eight Crazy Nights

Name: Eight Crazy Nights
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Animation, Musical
Released: November 27, 2002
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 23
Cast: Adam Sandler, Austin Stout, Jackie Sandler, Rob Schneider

2002

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 27, 2002 | PG-13

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)

Director: Seth Kearsley

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Animation, Musical

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 76 min

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Wesley Morris

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. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

The film has good design, effective animation and generic if endurable songs, but Sandler wants to slam his sentiment and wallow in it too, and he compromises with the worst of both worlds. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Isn't appropriate for any innocent child -- assuming such lovely creatures still exist. But boys and girls who enjoy surprise attacks in their entertainment (of the aforementioned toilet variety) are going to have a blast. Sad but true. Read full review

James Berardinelli

This is as dreadful a holiday offering as you're likely to find this year. A lump of coal would be more welcome. Read full review

Mark Caro

Its humor stems precisely from our enjoying its lead character's rotten behavior. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

The worst Hanukkah movie ever made, Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights does for the holiday what "Santa Claus: The Movie" did for Christmas. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike, Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire. Read full review

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Mar 19, 2009

Typical that the majority of the critics hated this, but I love it, poop jokes and all.

1 of 3 users found this helpful

DaedricLrd

Apr 30, 2006

They should make more of these. Its funny.

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sachinb

Jun 27, 2009

Not bad at all. In fact its quite hilarious. Good work Sandler.

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DeanFalcon

Feb 3, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It seems to be going in a How the Grinch Stole Christmas story, where an angry jerk hates the holiday cheer and festivity, but eventually would redeem himself of his ways. Which is why a movie like this fails, it’s pretty unoriginal, which makes this really predictable. Also, this story is supposed to be a character-driven story, but the problem is that the main character is such and likeable dickhead. Not to mention, it goes out of it’s way to throw various amounts of product placement to where it becomes a part of the story. Also, they try to throw in as many gross-out jokes as possible, from fart jokes, crap jokes, or others. But at least, it had a bit of structure to follow. So, the story is definitely crappy, but in its own sense was even worse than would expect. Now regarding on the animation, this is the strongest thing about this movie by a landslide. If you think that's a great thing, it really isn't, regarding the worst parts of this are just way bad. However, this on the other hand is pretty tremendous. The animation seems to go in a more of a style like Iron Giant or Osmosis Jones, which is understandable for new and unique animated films of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. The thing with both of the other films have their strong point where they'd stand out from the crowd. Like Osmosis Jones and their use of facial expressions and character design. For Iron Giant, it's definite strong point is the Giant himself, and the wonderful character design and expressions. Here however, they have nothing special that'll make it visually stand out. I'll give credit that they have great character animation, good and subtle use of CGI. But at times, the animation can be limited, and the gross out factor really does show, and makes this sort of unwatchable. So the animation is still good, I guess that'll be something to be remembered here.

With the characters, I am very surprised. That these are the most unlikeable, annoying, insufferable characters I've seen in a long time. Sure, you can say Whitey would be be a good character, but his voice is so annoying. His sister, Eleanor is an easy throwaway. Benjamin, a kid that befriends Davey, who'd seem like a good character but doesn't get much screen time and is only appearing in one whole scene which is useless filler. Jennifer, Benjamin's mother, who is just a love interest. And we got Davey himself, the most unlikeable main character I've ever seen in an animated movie, who is careless to everyone and just does the worst things from giving Whitey a Porta Potty ride to speeding through his town and destroying property. Also, a quick mention to the company mascots, who only appear during a song and is there just for product placements. Overall, the characters are definitely the worst part of this feature, and I’m just lucky the movie bombed, so I can never see these characters again.

I wouldn't want to mention the very forgettable songs

Don't watch this unless you love Adam Sandler and his movies… Expand

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Gharren

Dec 10, 2013

I think any random 12 year old kid could write a better script. It fails horribly at both the story and the character design, and the jokes are pretty much the unfunniest and most awful ones I've ever heard in any movie. I give 2 mercy points for the decent animation.

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bladeagent

Mar 1, 2014

How can such a funny man working with a beautiful animation studio make such a juvenile, unfunny mess? This movie is animated like a holiday special, but lacks any cheers.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Keyflame

Mar 19, 2022

never in history has there been a more unfunny, ugly, mean-spirited, annoying, manipulative, racist, product-placed, nauseating, offensive, and bad voice-acted movie with an unlikable lead!

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