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Adam Sandler’s 8 Crazy Nights
Release
Date: 6th December 2002
Distributor: Columbia Tristar
Certificate: 12A
Starring: The Voices Of: Adam Sandler,
Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider, Norm Crosby,
Jon Lovitz, Tyra Banks
Director: Seth
Kearsley
Running Time:
76
minutes
In
the Seasonal animated musical, ‘Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights’,
Sandler provides the voices several characters, including Davey Stone, a
young man who hates the holidays and is determined that no one else in the
town of Dukesberry is going to enjoy them either. On the first night of Hanukah (the Jewish holiday which lasts for 8 days…), Davey Stone (Sandler) gets very, very drunk and goes on a rampage of destruction. Destroying the huge ice statues in the town (one of Santa, the other a giant Menorah - you know, those candle holders), he is arrested. Since this is hardly the first time he's done this sort of thing, the judge is about to sentence Davey to ten years inside, when a kindly (and elf like) old man suddenly speaks up. Suggesting that the judge is lenient with Davey, the old man, Whitey (also voiced by Sandler), agrees to take responsibility for him.
Whitey
is a local basketball referee, and the judge sentences Davey to community
service as an assistant referee for the youth basketball league. Davey is
hilariously ungrateful, and although Whitey suffers Davey's foul temper
and bad attitude with good humour, others in the town are less sympathetic,
particularly his childhood sweetheart Jennifer (Titone) who has just returned
to Dukesberry with her son, Benjamin. When Davey's run down mobile home burns to the ground, he is forced to move in with Whitey and his sister, Eleanor (yet again voiced by Sandler), and having a family around him for the first time in years softens Davey. But when they begin to try and explore his painful past, he turns on them and goes off on another riot of destruction that possibly no-one but Davey himself can stop.
The
idea of an Adam Sandler cartoon must have sounded like a good idea to someone
because here it is. But to put an actor who uses his whole body –
voice, expressions, body language – to convey his jokes, into a situation
where all he has are his silly voices is a mistake. The animation, although
reasonable, just isn’t enough to convey the same intimations as a
live performance, and subsequently the whole film suffers.However there are enough crude jokes to satisfy most young teen boys (who are the most likely to go see this film) that it will at least appeal to somebody.
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