If this is what a standard Adam Sandler film is like then I’m not really sure that I want to see any more. However seeing that a few other reviewers – like the one directly below – have stated that this is not necessarily the best example of Sandler’s outpoint, I shall endeavour to look at this film in its own light. Much like the Rodney Dangerfield’s animated PR fiasco that was Rover Dangerfield, I think you would have to be a massive fan of Sandler to get anything remotely worthwhile out of this film.

Unfortunate then, that there is very little to recommend. Eight Crazy Nights is a mixture of toilet-humour and sentimentality which manages to do little more than try to gross the audience out, something which is generally more worrisome when the later does it as well.

Davey, the town’s drunken lout and ne’er-do-well, is arrested after recklessly destroying two giant festive ice sculptures. Whitey – more on him later – volunteers him for community service at the local community centre, Davey thereafter makes it his mission to make Whitey’s life miserable while Whitey tries to turn him around. Along the way we learn some back story on Davey, get introduced to a few uninteresting characters, including Whitey’s twin sister Eleanor: not that it matters since the whole story is cliché ridden and dull as mud.

The animation is fairly terrible for the most part, at a point where television animation had seen a jump in quality this seems much the same. This leads me to wonder whether that was what the animation crew had most experience in, or maybe they just weren’t given enough of a budget. The audio’s terrible, or, to be more specific the vocals that Sandler puts on for the Duvall twins. The songs in the film are all abysmal, though thankfully forgettable, one of them “Technical Foul” sung by Davy and the two Duvalls’ is really quite grating.

The humour of the film is, frankly, in the sewers and is mostly either insults thrown around by Davey or is just set up to humiliate Whitey. The later is more pronounced and you really have to wonder what kind of mind would find watching someone – animated or otherwise – having a seizure is, in any shape or form, funny.

The ending is abrupt and unrewarding. The best thing in it is the pyramid sight gag a bunch of deer do (deer who earlier are used to lick human excrement off of Whitey), the rest is generally groan worthy, if that. In difference to everything else though, Eight Crazy Nights is a film for those looking for the lowliest of lower common denominators. If you enjoy that kind of thing then you might get something out of Eight Crazy Nights, to everyone else it is just a lousy excuse for a film and a severe waste of one’s time.

Unfortunately I can think of numerous films which make this look good.