Article: Sandler's `Eight Crazy Nights' no holiday

Heaven help the unsuspecting families that wander into "Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights" expecting a jolly, animated holiday funfest. The holidays aren't very cheerful in Sandlerville, which is why the PG-13 rating mentions "frequent and crude sexual humor." The MPAA doesn't mention it, but there's also a lot of scatological humor in the film, inkeeping with Sandler's inexplicable fascination with defecation, flatulence and bodily fluids.

If this is not a family film, what is it? Well, the audiences for "Jackass" may enjoy a scene where Davey, the hero, slams a sweet little oldman into a Porta-Potty and shoves it down a hill. When the geezer emerges at the bottom, he is still alive, but ...

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