Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
23
(27 sources)
23
(27 sources)
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75
Boston Globe
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. Read Full Review » -
70
TV Guide
An offbeat, sometimes gross and surprisingly appealing animated film about the true meaning of the holidays. Read Full Review » -
70
Los Angeles Times
On the whole, this lively, bittersweet Columbia release works well and is sure to connect strongly with fans of Sandler at his most free-wheeling and uninhibited. Scrub off the latrine humor, and underneath there's a heart-tugging sentimental tale of uplift and redemption. Read Full Review » -
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The film has good design, effective animation and generic if endurable songs, but Sandler wants to slam his sentiment and wallow in it too, and he compromises with the worst of both worlds. Read Full Review » -
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Heaven help the unsuspecting families who wander into Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights expecting a jolly animated holiday funfest. Read Full Review » -
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mazel tov, Adam, for having three movies released in five months. You should maybe spend more time on the next one? Read Full Review » -
40
Washington Post
Isn't appropriate for any innocent child -- assuming such lovely creatures still exist. But boys and girls who enjoy surprise attacks in their entertainment (of the aforementioned toilet variety) are going to have a blast. Sad but true. Read Full Review » -
38
ReelViews
This is as dreadful a holiday offering as you're likely to find this year. A lump of coal would be more welcome. Read Full Review » -
38
New York Post
The animated, Hanukkah-themed musical is, in fact, 75 minutes worth of belching, barfing and poo-jokes braided into a Grinch-meets-Scrooge-meets-"It's a Wonderful Life" storyline that's as stale as last year's potato latkes. Read Full Review » -
38
USA Today
Myopic Whitey, continually passed over for a lifetime achievement athletic award, bears a passing resemblance to Columbia's all-time No. 1 animated star, the nearsighted Mr. Magoo. It's nice to think that if he ever went to this movie, he wouldn't be able to see it. Read Full Review » -
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Both syrupy and scatological, this is a typical family-dividing Sandler comedy: Parents will hate it but the kids will delight in its rudeness. Read Full Review » -
38
Miami Herald
Do not, under any circumstances, consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor. Read Full Review » -
38
New York Daily News
To be fair, Sandler deserves some credit for bringing us the first mainstream movie about Chanukah. Too bad it's completely idioticah. Read Full Review » -
38
Baltimore Sun
It's hard to figure who this picture is supposed to be for. Although a cartoon, it's way too mean-spirited and crass for young kids (parents, be forewarned!). And the idea that any substantial number of adults would find this sort of thing entertaining ... let's pray civilization hasn't come to that. Read Full Review » -
30
LA Weekly
In the end it's only "The Chanukah Song, Part 3," playing over the closing credits, that manages to capture the joy of the season. Read Full Review » -
30
Variety
This is a dark, vulgar, brooding turnoff of a movie, minus the steady laugh quotient needed to appease Sandler's core constituency. Read Full Review » -
25
San Francisco Chronicle
You've never seen a movie go from awwwww to ewwwww so fast. Read Full Review » -
25
Chicago Tribune
Its humor stems precisely from our enjoying its lead character's rotten behavior. Read Full Review » -
25
Rolling Stone
I'd prefer to think of Sandler in "Punch-Drunk Love," the one good movie of the three he did this year. Read Full Review » -
20
The Onion (A.V. Club)
The worst Hanukkah movie ever made, Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights does for the holiday what "Santa Claus: The Movie" did for Christmas. Read Full Review » -
20
Village Voice
This dull extension of Sandler's ubiquitous "Chanukah Song" squanders the cross-cultural comedy potential of a Jewish-themed Christmas movie on cheap fart gags and boilerplate schmaltz. Read Full Review » -
10
Chicago Reader
A holiday film for the whole family, provided the whole family is obsessed with human waste. Read Full Review » -
10
The New York Times
Festooned with yards of gross-out jokes, sniggering allusions and, astonishingly, a sentimental climax that's more repellent than any of the crude effluvia the film is drenched with. Read Full Review » -
10
Washington Post
In this vile contribution to the animated holiday genre, Sandler proves himself once again determined to get rich by setting the bar just a little bit lower each time out. Read Full Review » -
0
Entertainment Weekly
You know all that artistic cred Adam Sandler built up with his acclaimed work in ''Punch-Drunk Love''? Well, he flushes it down the crapper with Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights -- the most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog ''Rover Dangerfield.'' Read Full Review » -
0
Wall Street Journal
An appallingly tedious Hanukkah comedy that must have bubbled up from the Porta Potti of his subconscious. Read Full Review » -
0
Austin Chronicle
Certain to be distasteful to children and adults alike, Eight Crazy Nights is a total misfire. Read Full Review »
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