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Article: Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights

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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights Directed by Seth Kearsley (Columbia, in release) Undoubtedly the first animated holiday film centering on a bitter, shiftless, thirtysomething alcoholic, Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights stumbles through its standard Scrooge-- enlightenment plot with a clumsily mixed cocktail of kiddie-friendly elements and college-level sex jokes. This dull extension of Sandler's ubiquitous "Chanukah Song" squanders the crosscultural comedy potential of a Jewish-themed Christmas movie on cheap fart gags and boilerplate schmaltz. The producer-star voices the film's three main ...

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