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Eight Crazy Nights
As research for my upcoming list of favorite Adam Sandler performances, I chose the animated musical oddity from 2002 called Eight Crazy Nights, Sandler's fractured and raunchy re-thinking of A Christmas Carol filled with tasteless, bathroom humor that taints what is a somewhat original look at a story that has been told in a lot of different movies.
Sandler provides the voice for the central character, Davey Stone, an angry thirty year old booze hound and all around loser who hates everything and everybody in the small town where he lives. The only person in town who seems to give a damn about Davey is Whitey (also voiced by Sandler), a little old man who is a volunteer basketball coach and the town punching bag, who lives with his crazy twin sister, Eleanor (voiced by Sandler as well). Whitey takes Davey in when his trailer burns down and does try to get through to the guy, who has also somehow connected to a kid named Benjamin (voiced by Austin Stout) who is the son of Davey's childhood sweetheart, Jennifer (voiced by Jennifer Sandler).
Sandler definitely gets points for originality here, creating a holiday movie that actually references Chanukah instead of Christmas, but his central character is just a little difficult to invest in. Davey Stone is just plain mean and has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. As unpleasant as Davey is, you kind of have to forgive it because the character is drawn and sounds exactly like Adam Sandler.
Davey's anger seems completely unmotivated until a clue to his evil is provided by a Chanukah card from Davey's parents that he received from his parents as a child but never opened. The reveal of this card clears up why Davey is so angry but it seems the reveal should have come a little sooner, but maybe this reveal should have come a little before we have come to completely hate the character.
There's some really tasteless and raunchy humor sprinkled throughout and that includes the often clever song score by Teddy Castellucci, Marc Ellis, and Ray Ellis, that includes "At The Mall", "Patch Song", "Long Ago", "Bum Biddy", and my personal favorite, "Technical Foul".
A lot of Sandler's SNL pals provide voices including Kevin Nealon and Jon Lovitz, and long time rep company member Allen Covert contributed to the screenplay, but this one is definitely a mixed bag that hardcore Sandler fans will be able to mine laughs from.
As research for my upcoming list of favorite Adam Sandler performances, I chose the animated musical oddity from 2002 called Eight Crazy Nights, Sandler's fractured and raunchy re-thinking of A Christmas Carol filled with tasteless, bathroom humor that taints what is a somewhat original look at a story that has been told in a lot of different movies.
Sandler provides the voice for the central character, Davey Stone, an angry thirty year old booze hound and all around loser who hates everything and everybody in the small town where he lives. The only person in town who seems to give a damn about Davey is Whitey (also voiced by Sandler), a little old man who is a volunteer basketball coach and the town punching bag, who lives with his crazy twin sister, Eleanor (voiced by Sandler as well). Whitey takes Davey in when his trailer burns down and does try to get through to the guy, who has also somehow connected to a kid named Benjamin (voiced by Austin Stout) who is the son of Davey's childhood sweetheart, Jennifer (voiced by Jennifer Sandler).
Sandler definitely gets points for originality here, creating a holiday movie that actually references Chanukah instead of Christmas, but his central character is just a little difficult to invest in. Davey Stone is just plain mean and has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. As unpleasant as Davey is, you kind of have to forgive it because the character is drawn and sounds exactly like Adam Sandler.
Davey's anger seems completely unmotivated until a clue to his evil is provided by a Chanukah card from Davey's parents that he received from his parents as a child but never opened. The reveal of this card clears up why Davey is so angry but it seems the reveal should have come a little sooner, but maybe this reveal should have come a little before we have come to completely hate the character.
There's some really tasteless and raunchy humor sprinkled throughout and that includes the often clever song score by Teddy Castellucci, Marc Ellis, and Ray Ellis, that includes "At The Mall", "Patch Song", "Long Ago", "Bum Biddy", and my personal favorite, "Technical Foul".
A lot of Sandler's SNL pals provide voices including Kevin Nealon and Jon Lovitz, and long time rep company member Allen Covert contributed to the screenplay, but this one is definitely a mixed bag that hardcore Sandler fans will be able to mine laughs from.