SummaryDavey Stone, a 33-year old party animal, finds himself in trouble with the law after his wild ways go too far. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the judge gives Davey one last chance at redemption -- spend the holiday performing community service as the assistant referee for the youth basketball league or go to jail. (Columbia Pictures)
Directed By:Seth Kearsley
Written By:Brooks Arthur, Allen Covert, Brad Isaacs, Adam Sandler
Eight Crazy Nights
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Generally Unfavorable
23
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
11% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
15% Mixed
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74% Negative
20 Reviews
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75
What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The tunes, co-written by Sandler and a bunch of his pals, take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance.
50
Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest.
User score
Mixed or Average
27% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
15% Mixed
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
58% Negative
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
Dec 20, 2012
9
An excellent movie to watch during the holidays. The humor is grosser than most other Sandler movies, and it's actually part musical. If your a Sandler fan you'll love it, haters gonna hate.
Dec 10, 2024
7
A man named Adam Sandler has been heard about for many decades and years to years he’s either evolved or devolved into an inconsistent lineup of his own weird comedy movies. The good news is this is one of those films that’s absolutely hated on for so many unknown reasons making it an underrated gem. Don’t get me wrong I can see why people or jews in general would really have a grunge about this film, there are a lot of disgusting moments in this holiday flick. But let’s talk about the story from the perspective of someone who genuinely likes and dislikes Adam Sandler’s work. It starts off with a narration from Rob Schneider telling us the story about our main protagonist Davey. He’s a drunk addict, anger problem, **** who ruins the holiday for many people. And he does get into a lot of trouble in court, but another face appears that sends him out of jail for now named Whitey. A happy go lucky old elf that takes care of Davey and is the basketball referee. During this film you see a lot of great character development from Davey and see why he is so angry and horrible to people. He used to have a great life playing basketball with his friends but unfortunately heard horrible news about his parents being dead from a patch of black ice. Told said flashback from Whitey and for some weird reason even though Davey told him to stop talking about his traumatic past. Keeps going on with the story and Davey snaps and goes through a hallucination of all the mall products from the beginning of the film. And after playing a song to him, Davey makes the choice of Redemption and sees and spills the truth from Whitey’s abuse. And in the end, Whitey wins all of the rewards from everyone else and get’s so exited he has a seizure again. I forgot to talk about the other scenes but overall this is a great and really funny film. The comedy from Whitey, Eleanore, Davey and the Chinese waiter is really funny and actually impressive that Adam Sandler voiced all three differently distinct characters. Also I never even talked about everything else because it’s no secret that it's all really great. The musical scores are very fun and catchy as hell, the animation is absolutely gorgeous in every way. And the writing may have been too disgusting and foul in many parts, but it has a lot of wit, character development and some story progression all around.
38
Both syrupy and scatological, this is a typical family-dividing Sandler comedy: Parents will hate it but the kids will delight in its rudeness.
38
To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah.
25
I'd prefer to think of Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love," the one good movie of the three he did this year.
10
A holiday film for the whole family, provided the whole family is obsessed with human waste.
0
An appallingly tedious Hanukkah comedy that must have bubbled up from the Porta Potti of his subconscious.
Apr 25, 2023
5
This movie's dumb af but it's fine. The first song, Davey's Song, is actually very catchy. Plus I like the scene of him in the mall talking to the mascots. Good scene.
Aug 1, 2018
3
What a waste of good animation with this garbage, this is worst Sandler ever. I'm not a huge of Adam Sandler, but there are better Sandler movies than this. Humor is dumb and the main character is too unlikable.
Dec 17, 2014
2
I’ve wanted a Channukah movie for years but not like this. 8 Crazy Nights isn’t just a terrible Channukah movie, or a bad film, but one of the most offensive cartoons I’ve ever seen. Not just because of its stereotyping but because of the auteurism of Adam Sandler. The same cliché story about **** finding love, the offensive humor full of the lowest form of humor poop and fart jokes, and **** voices all combine to create a cartoon that is both unpleasant to watch and just plain torture making 1 hour and ½ feel like an eternity. The biggest mitzvah you can do yourself is not watch this movie if you see it playing around Channukah. Listen to the Channukah Song by Adam Sandler, spend time with friends and family, or anything beside watching this turd of a movie. My Channukah present to all of you is that I sat through this movie so you don’t have to. Take my word it ****. Leave it leave. If you thought you hated Adam Sandler’s humor before…..Nonetheless, have a happy Channuakah.
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- Happy Madison Productions
- Meatball Animation
Release Date:Nov 27, 2002
Duration:1 h 16 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:It's naughty. It's nice. It's animated.
Awards
The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 3 Nominations
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Kids' Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination




























