Good concept, poorly executed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I recently watched this film, having heard that it was considered one of the worst animated films. Upon watching it, I found a film with good animation, a nice story and a couple of good overall messages to the plot. Not enough films will openly address male mental health and the impact of ideals of manliness. It felt like someone had put some work into coming up with a good holiday film premise.However, there were some extremely clear points that made it feel like someone was trying to derail the entire thing. There was the over-the-top toilet humour, such as the deer licking the frozen poo off of Whitey, occasionally bizarre character design, such as a woman with three breasts, and a couple of casting decisions that should have been stopped immediately, such as Adam Sandler playing Whitey with a voice like a pubescent bat.In conclusion, watching this film will make you feel torn: there are moments where it feels like someone was trying to put together a good holiday film and you will start to be drawn into it, but be warned that soon some deer are going to start defecating on themselves.

This film is one of those films that depresses the living crap out of me knowing that so much effort was put into this garbage. I say that because this films animation is surprisingly really good. Almost as good as a Disney film from the late 90s. But the animation is no where near enough to make up for unfunny jokes, mean-spirited premise, overwhelming amount of product placements that would make even the most forgiving viewer sick, and a really bad story. There is no doubt in my mind that this film is one of Sandler's worst. Granted, this movie isn't awful, considering its great animation. But for a holiday film, this is nothing memorable in the slightest. The humor used in this film is not only not that funny, but some jokes and scenes in this film is down-right disgusting. It's almost worse than Movie 43. I don't think I'm able to recommend this film to anyone as there's little to nothing great about it. The animation is no where near enough to save this film. In fact, the great animation seems really off putting for what this film is about, and I couldn't be more depressed knowing that all that effort was wasted on this joke of a holiday special. The only people that I can think of that would like this film are the absolute biggest Adam Sandler fans, but even then, they and every one else would be better off watching something else.

Boy, am I glad that I didn't watch Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights during the holiday season. I would've been more morose than when I watched Bad Santa two weeks before Christmas last year. But after viewing that I was morose in the kind of way that is a tad more welcoming than hurting. If I had seen this film weeks leading up to Christmas, I'd feel slightly contemptible and sad inside.This is a cynical, depraved film that, even worse, has no reason to be so cynical and depraved. It's expected of Sandler to include scatological humor and slight-offensiveness in his films, sure, but it's unexpected of him to include such derogatory representations of his own culture and unnecessary rudeness in the time of the holidays. I can only imagine the stunned reactions of parents that were lured into this with the appeal of Christmas images and holiday sweetness on TV only to be met with one smarmy, laugh-free punch after another. It's so rare we get a film that deals with a holiday aside from Christmas during the December month; did the one Hanukkah film we get have to be directed by Adam Sandler? He voices several characters in the film, one of them Davey, who he also resembles, a Jewish man in his mid-thirties, deeply loathing of the holidays and all the cheer they bring to people. After being convicted of public drunkenness in yet another offense, just when he's about to go away to prison, Whitey Duvall (voiced by Sandler, as well), the local youth basketball coach, offers him a job as a referee down at the gym to which he accepts. Whitey is a short, kind old man, who lives with his wife Eleanor (also voiced by Sandler), and whole-heartedly believes that Davey could do right if he put his mind to it. The problem is Davey doesn't have any ambition to do right and consistently puts everyone around him down because he himself can't be happy with the cards he has been dealt.There's only so many times I can watch a man belittle and harass a sweet older man until it becomes nearly unwatchable. The constant abuse Davey brings to Whitey's life is mean-spirited just for the sake of being mean-spirited and rarely results in a laugh or a smile. Davey's attitude, alone, never sparks any particular laugh either. There's a big difference between someone who adopts a sour attitude because of past life experiences that have scarred him and a person who adopts one purely out of choice. Davey has one event in his life that happened at a young age that was supposed to spawn this cynicism and disgust for human happiness and holiday cheer. That was years ago and you think the anger and hostile would've worn off with the passage of almost two decades. Not a chance. He remains as mean and as nasty as if the event occurred yesterday.The film is also a musical, which isn't as awful as that sounds. Some songs, particularly "Davey's Song," are kind of infectious in their contempt for the holidays. "Technical Foul," the song Whitey sings when he's introducing Davey to all the rules of his own, is a cute little anthem as well. However, none of which allow Eight Crazy Nights to surpass its codger attitude to everything it sets up. But it feels even more insincere when the film abandons its mean-spiritedness for the fluffy, Hallmark-card cuteness that it feels obligated to tack on in the last act of the film to show Davey really has come a long way as a human. I would've had more respect for the film had it stayed true to its inherently grumpy roots.Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights is an unhealthy film for the holidays. A cheap, trite ordeal, at only seventy-six minutes, it's an obnoxious pictures that gives a new meaning to the word "humbug." It's a blatant ripoff of A Christmas Carol, and tries to justify its mean-spirited qualities as the formula for a "reformation," change-of-mind story that we've seen time and time again in better, more tolerable films.Voiced by: Adam Sandler, Jackie Titone, Austin Stout, and Rob Schneider. Directed by: Seth Kearsley.

First of all this is NOT a kids movie. I'm very disturbed to find out that my boyfriend let his 5 yr old watch it. It's laced with sexual comments and cartoon boobs flopping all over the place. That would have been fine, if this was intended for adults and was funny on any level at all. It's not. In summary, it's just a horrible movie. Watch anything else. Even looking at my wall I could have thought of something and laugh once an hour. The winy voice of the referee, just sad. Making fun of someone because they are short? Are we not trying to get AWAY from bullying. The advertisements in the mall, OMG!! Please stop putting commercials into my movies. I see them everywhere, leave the movie alone!!!