Why Eight Crazy Nights is a Holiday HOT MESS

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It’s insane that adam Sandler got the animators behind iron giant

Fun fact: the opposite of an ‘I want’ song is called an ‘I AM’ song, and it’s usually given to static or villainous characters as an introduction to what their deal is or what they do. Think ‘Friends on the Other Side’ or ‘Be Prepared’.

When I was in college, a ton of my professors actually worked on this movie. One of them even still had the cells he made. They actually were working at the Walt Disney animation studio in Orlando, Florida. But after Disney shut down the studio, they said that people from Happy Madison were right outside the building handing out applications to work on Eight Crazy Nights. After they finished work on the movie, they all ended up leaving the animation industry. Most were 2D and hand drawn animators, and sadly there wasn’t much work anymore after Eight Crazy Nights.

A lot of Adam Sandler movies have this thing where they're good movies trapped within bad movies. The story of Davy losing his parents which in turn causes him to go down a dark path of alcohol and hatred of himself and the people around him only to find someone that genuinely cares for him and turn his life around is a great story! It's just stuck between everything else. I still really love this movie even with all the Adam Sandler humor in it.

I will always be grateful for '90s Nickelodeon normalizing kids having different religious beliefs.

in a weird way i DO find whitey and eleanore genuinely endearing. they're...scrunkly, for lack of a better word. they're weird but kind and i'm always a sucker for characters like that lol overall i have a weird appreciation for this movie, and adam sandler himself. he seems like a really nice dude IRL, and my sense of humor is admittedly very immature so that might be a component. i'm glad the one thing everyone can agree on is the animation because it really is way better than the script deserves

I almost always hate the trope of "character overhears something they weren't supposed to" but I actually think that's what they should have done with Whitey telling Davey's story to Elanor. Having Davey out having fun only to rejoin the group and just catch the tail end of Whitey finishing the story would have worked better here. That way the audience still gets to hear it, Elanor still gets to pity Davey, which infuriates him, and Davey still gets to get mad that Whitey shared information about him that wasn't any of his business. The only change is that Whitey comes across more as careless rather than actively ignoring Davey's requests for him to stop.

This animation does NOT deserve a script like this.

I have a love/hate relationship to this movie. I loved it because it was by far the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it got me out of a dark place. And I hate it because of all the things that snapped me out of it, it was a freaking Adam Sandler movie. It's like trying to sleep to a jigsaw horror movie, it worked, but why the hell did it work?

I think Whitey's big fascination with the mall is a smalltown thing. When you live in a small town where everybody knows everybody, the mall is seen like a grand, "big city" type thing. At least it was in my small town growing up (and our mall sucked. the best malls we had access to were either an hour and a half or a 4 hour drive away).

Also , fun fact: if you look closely at the cast in the end credits, two of the product placement mascots, the Victoria secrets gown is voiced by Tyra Banks, and the Sharper Image chair is voiced by Tom Kenny. yeah, that’s right, SpongeBob himself is in this movie 👗 🪑

I mean, if the town drunken asshole is calling you an asshole, it sounds like it was a reality check for the folks of the town

To get the full 8 Crazy Nights experience, you gotta watch 8 Crazy Nights for 8 nights in a row. But each night you need to watch it another time in a row, until you watch it 8 times in a row the final night.

Sure, Davey's backstory is pretty traumatic, but Whitey has no right to be so tragic. He just wants to help others and be recognized for his accomplishments, but everyone constantly shits on him. He genuinely wants to help Davey get better. Not just because he sees this opportunity as a way to win the patch, but because he seems to actually care about Davey, evident by the way he still sets boundaries and threatens to kick him out or turn him in if he takes things too far. And the town still doesn't acknowledge him. His only friends are his sister, one of his former players along with her son, a group of deer, and the mall. I just want to give him a hug!

It is a crime how under-appreciated the animation in this movie is. It is incredibly fluid and beautiful. You can recognize the individual artists' signature styles from other work. I have never said this about any film, but I would love to see this recut, rewritten, and dubbed over.

I spent years thinking this movie wasn't a real thing because it made me cry but also had Adam Sandler in it. I saw it on TV as a kid. The tonal whiplash is kinda impressive.

The scene where Davey sings Bum Biddy to honor Whitey at the banquet always hits me right in the feels

So about the dunking on whitey thing: Back then, that kind of treatment towards people who are different was really widespread and socially acceptable. The writing allows the audience to engage in that behavior before forcing us to suddenly be confronted with the realization that he is a person, a kind-hearted one at that, and forces us to think about how we view and treat others in a way we don't normally get forced into