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.

Gahh...this one was pretty bad. I honestly thought the animation was fairly well-drawn and smooth but I just cannot, in good faith, give this thing more than a star-and-a-half.

The profile, clearly written before the movie's release, suggests that it carries that good old, Sandler-brand, edgy humor. Well, I happen to own a couple Sandler movies and have seen several more and, really, I don't think you'll find much of that here. Here's one example of why this is a bad movie: When I first saw the Duvall characters (one of whom is named Whitey???), I actually thought, "Wow, I dunno who these voice actors are, but they're terrible. In fact they both just sound like Adam Sandler, constricting his voice." Needless to say that is exactly the case.

If you can get past the Duvalls' scratchy, piercing warbles, you'll only find yourself in the fire below the frying pan. Poor writing provides you with jokes that nobody, not even the characters in the movie, can laugh at. A sad attempt at "cute" consists of a strange and mostly pointless family of deer that follows everyone around and interacts with the world of man, making alien mumbling noises and yet being ignored by the whole town. Somebody told the writers that alcohol is a hallucinogen. And to tip the iceberg, the whole concoction is a musical. That's right...all of the awful sounds and failed designs described above will often join together in an abhorrible lethargy of song and dance.

It's funny, too...I could swear that somebody who was involved in "The Iron Giant" was involved in this movie, too, because some of the younger boy characters were drawn almost exactly like little Hogarth. A sad fate if this be the case.

This really is a pretty bad movie. It starts with Adam Sandler belching, and with the exception of some deer forming themselves into a pyramid, it stays at about that level. I can't think of anything much to say about the thing. The plot has been completely outlined in reviews below. To me it was a combination of toilet humour and schmaltz, both of which were grating and tiresome. The animation is not particularly recent TV special quality. It has a few good lines, and the deer who form a pyramid, which gets it the half star. That's about it. I mean, don't get me wrong - I actually believe it's possible to make a heartwarming animated movie about the redemption of an antisocial, alcoholic thirty-something Jewish guy who likes to belch a lot, but it's going to take more talent and inspiration than was assembled here. Blech. Skip it.

Quite frankly, I found this cartoon pretty funny and laughed some of it. It would even have come close to being touching at one point, if it wasn't so hypocritical. And lot of the humor was just sorta....gross.

Davey Stone is an obnoxious troublemaker who drinks, steals, vandalizes, and makes a general pain in the butt of himself. But of course, it isn't HIS fault at all...it's due to an unresolved tragedy in his past. Awwwwwww.......

The police warn him that he's on his last chance before he's hauled off to rot in prison forever, and he is released into the custody of Whitey, a tiny, geeky old man who volunteers as a kids' basketball coach. Davey doesn't appreciate it, and does his best to annoy and humiliate Whitey at every opportunity.

Most of the humor in the movie from this point on are cheap laughs at Whitey's various humiliations.

After waaaaaayyyy too much of this, Davey resolves his inner conflict. Having an epiphany in the last 10 minutes of the movie (while on his way to jail), Davey convinces the town to name Whitey as the citizen of the year, giving the little geek who is the only unselfish character in the film a scant few seconds of respect before he goes back to being the butt of the cheap laughs and the laughingstock of the town. It's quite clear that nobody REALLY gives a rat's patootie about Whitey, and that giving him the award is a guilt-trip reflex.

And of course his one, single good deed endears Davey to everybody, and succeeds in impressing the bland , personality-deficient girl of his dreams.

Ech.

This movie cracked me up! It includes the voice of Adam Sandler who I felt did great for his first voice over. Although it isn't a movie for young kids, if your my age you will love it!

This movie rocks hard! The songs are so damn funny and great especially "Technical Foul". This is surely a must-see film for all who love Adam Sandler. The movie may be crude and annoying, but still it's great. Adam Sandler voicing three different characters. Jackie Titone voicing Adam Sandler's love (in the real world Jackie is Adam's fiancee). Austin Stout as the young son belonging to Jackie's character. Rob Schneider voicing the narrator and the comedic Chinese waiter who appears several times during the movie.