![]() ![]() ![]() I suppose you could show this to your kids – what I can’t think of is a good reason why you would. ![]() There is a lot of messaging about bullying and kindness, which is all well and good, but there’s also the usual allotment of raunchy humor and random cruelty. This one falls into the more child-suitable end. The only real difference between his films is the level of child suitability. The only thing that really separates this from Happy Gilmore or The Waterboy is the theme – this is every other Adam Sandler movie with a coat of Halloween slapped on. ![]() I certainly can’t think of any other reason they’d do such a thing. I’ve actually wondered if Sandler makes these movies as a thinly veiled excuse to make out with actresses he finds attractive. Armed only with his trusty Swiss-Army Thermos full of soup, can Hubie overcome the town’s loathing and his own incompetence to save Halloween?Īdam Sandler movies are broadly interchangeable: terrible jokes mixed with bad slapstick, some poor actress who gets trapped as the love interest, and a dangerous overdose of the man himself doing stupid voices. But this year, the town might actually need him: a madman has escaped from a nearby asylum, and to make matters worse there appears to be a werewolf on the loose. Not that any of this deters him in any way from his self-appointed duties as Volunteer Halloween Monitor. Unfortunately, the town doesn’t love him nearly as much: Hubie is an object of local ridicule, and a frequent target for eggs, flaming bags of poop, and rocks from the town kids. Hubie Dubois (Adam Sandler) loves Halloween more than just about anybody in Salem. ![]()
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