Article: ADAM SANDLER'S FILM FOOLISH BUT NOT FUNNY 'CRAZY NIGHTS' FAILS IN EFFORT TO MERGE GLEEFUL AND GROSS.(City Desk/Local)(Review)

Byline: Robert Denerstein

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Adam Sandler has spent the better part of his amazingly successful career trying to answer one of pop-culture's most pressing questions: Is it possible to be cute and disgusting at the same time? Can mawkish sentiment mix with comedy that includes jokes about a small, hairy man whose body, at one point, is covered with human feces?

Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights continues his quest to find the right blend of gross-outs and glee. This bizarre holiday offering isn't much different from a live-action Sandler film, except that it allows him to create three characters.

Yo, Adam, one per movie is ...

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