guypersonal While this movie does contain plenty of potty jokes and foul words, what it makes up with it's lack of holdiay family fun, and any real sense of comedy, it makes up with a fantastic music score and a message of treating others how you'd like to be treated. The movies ending does show a happy ending, and reasoning behind Sandler's antics in the film. However throughout the film Sandler's character Davey isn't that polite, mature, or family friendly. It really isn't until the climax of Davey finally letting out a cry that the movie turns to a positive footnote. However again I must say for a Sandler film (good or bad) the films soundtrack is very enjoyable. With catchy beats and good singing, it can make you replay it. However as a holiday movie it can be depressing to an extent. The only happy parts are when the people realize their mistake towards Whitey, another sandler character. My only advice is if you really want to watch this, keep in mind it will pick up for the better towards the end.

henrikjbodin-213-189153 It was a long time since I saw this movie, I bought it when one of the last VHS rental stores was closing up, 10 movies for 100 Swedish kronor, (like 13 bucks) I think it was, and today i watched a few clips on you-tube, and I almost started crying. I have actually cried to this movie, several times, and I consider it a true masterpiece. Sure, it has a plump humour, crude to be honest, and the story line is a lot like many of Adam Sandlers movies, below average, but this movies has lots of heart, and it gives a lovely perspective on both the human experience and what it is to be human. The last, what is it, 15 years? I have quoted the homeless man several times, in the dark, I may be ugly and smelly, but in the dark, I am just smelly. That my friends is really something. And in the scene at the mall, I've actually started crying several times, and I am not quick to tears. If you read some of the bad reviews here, you might get put of by this pearl, but give it a chance. In most cases, or rather all other cases, I hate Adam Sandler, but this movie is amazing. I've seen all Bergman's movies, and Kurosawa's, and a bunch of pretentious, great and poetic films, but I don't think any movie, except maybe castaway on the moon by Hae-Jun Lee, has touched me and stayed with me this much and for this long. Get some hot chocolate and some nice sandwiches and watch it, not as a kids cartoon, but as a Christmas story for adults. You might not like it, but you might love it, as I do.

LilOwens Yes eating garbage would be a more pleasant experience than this ridiculous turd of a movie. Sandler plays the role of an incredibly juvenile and self loathing man, that is just a rehash of his angry boy who refuses to grow up character from his other movies. He also doubles (horribly) as an elderly loser who is constantly the butt of the joke amongst the towns folk. Yet again he triples as the loser's homebody sister. The jokes are mean spirited throughout, and you are expected to go from laughing at the old loser to feeling sympathetic towards his goal of a patch of recognition from the town on a moment's notice. Sandler, his writing and directing team, as welll as the animators, all put in phoned-in performances. This is easily the worst effort and result of Sandler's career. Yes, even worse than the boat movie he did before his time on SNL.Whitey, the old loser sums up this movie, and Sandler the best...., "You're a freaking degenerate!"Yup, he sure is! The meanness of this attempt at comedy isn't remotely funny, and the haphazard turns are high melodrama. Avoid, and even tho the movie is animated it is not for children, due to the jokes all being rooted in either feces (literally), or humour coming at the expense of people's dignity.

ironhorse_iv It's so stupid, it's funny. While this movie is not traditional Christmas or a Hanukah movie, it's still a holiday movie. The movie is full of crude humor, potty jokes, and tasteless puns. I can't even comprehend the scope of the suck-age that this movie amounts to, and I commend who ever, sir, for actually sitting through it. It's hard to watch, but it's kind of funny if you don't take it so serious. Once a happy boy and now the town delinquent, Davey Stone (voiced by Sandler) is given one last chance to redeem himself with the community after raising havoc during the holiday season. Davey is no less than the animation self-character of Adam Sandler's man yelling child. 33-year-old alcoholic troublemaker with a long criminal record who evade arrest and destroy public properties was about to be sentenced to jail when Whitney Duvall (also Sandler) a 70-year-old volunteer basketball referee comes forward at his trial offering Davey to community service as a referee-in-training for Whitey's Youth Basketball League. Under the terms of the community service, if Davey commits a felony before his sentence is completed, he will be sentenced to ten years in prison. While at the Youth Basketball court he meet single mom Jennifer Friedman, Davey's childhood girlfriend, and her son, Benjamin (Austin Stout). She is just there to play the love interest, and somebody to help Davey get back into the system of life. As time progresses, Davey and Whitey's relationship becomes more contentious, as Whitey's various attempts to encourage Davey are met with humiliation and assault. Whitey opens his home to Davey after his trailer burn down, where he meets Whitey's bald, diabetic fraternal twin sister Eleanor (Adam Sandler). Sandler does a great job in voicing Eleanor as most people couldn't tell that it was him. While there Davey begins to turn his life around. Davey's progress in reforming is halted when one morning Whitey recalls the events of Hanukkah twenty years ago about his parents. Davey withdrew from society and developed alcoholism, embarking on a life of juvenile delinquency and adult criminal behavior. The rest of the movie is him trying to make amends to both Whitey and the community, while trying to get over his past. I genuinely felt that Adam Sandler and his Saturday Night Live friends made a dumb comedy on purpose. There's nothing wrong with dumb comedies if done right. The problem is that it's a well animated film with a lot of quality that would turn off the viewers. First off, Davey is a main character that crude humor against others meant make the movie seem too mean-spirit. If there weren't any flashbacks, and other character mentioning how good he was at one time, it would seem Davey was just a bad apple. It's a mixed bag that follows the Happy Madison formula, but doesn't deliver as a holiday film. I think people didn't really expect it to be so crude. With Davey being really bipolar, it's the ultimate form of walking on eggshells. The other thing that hurts the movie is the amount of scatological, steady stream of fart, belches and butt-cracks, animal droppings, human feces and urine stains. It was way too much. What's special about the movie is how totally it believes in itself as a musical. The endurable songs co-written by Sandler take on rock opera and traditional Jewish folk music with boyish exuberance. The movie starts with Davey's Song ('I hate me' -It's kind of rare for a character filled with self-loathing to be aware of it, that works to establish the character. Long Ago is a song that of him missing the old time. The song 'technical foul' is the best of the movie songs establishing the relationship between Davey and the Duvalls. "Let It Out' Davey is so-so song, and need for Davey's chance of heart, but all the product placement ruins it. The numerous mascots of popular businesses come to life and attempt to force Davey to confront his past are not needed. It felt the movie went on to trying to buy business, than improve the story. The sub-plot of Whitney trying to win the All-Star Banquet, an annual town celebration in which one member of the community is recognized for positive contributions. Despite having vied for the award for over thirty five years, Whitey get pass over, and Davey is trying to stop that from happening this year with the song 'Bum Biddy'. There are other songs in different version of DVD. One DVD has the new installment of "The Chanukah Song" and a deleted song, called "At The Mall", sung by Whitey as he strolls through the mall in an alternate opening, which is included in the DVD release of the movie. Whitey is a great character, but some people might find his voice a bit annoying. Other supporting character are stereotypes or one-dimension; no less than Rob Schneider being Mr. Chang. The pacing in the film is annoying. The film has good design, effective animation, but Sandler wants to slam his sentiment and wallow in it too, and he compromises with the worst of both worlds. Given that this is the first feature-length film dedicated to Hanukkah, it's a little disappointing that history gets the brush-off and the Festival of Lights is relegated to serving as a backdrop for the movie's madcap mayhem. One of the raunchiest holiday movies ever made that has a legit story of human spirit. People are too high brow nowadays so check it out once.