Summary
Adam Sandler makes an adult animated film about Hanukkah and it turns out worse than even his biggest critics would expect.
This film is such a horrible stinker that in its relatively short runtime of 76 minutes I had to turn it off multiple times and take breaks from it just to be able to finish it. Honestly there is nothing funny about this film at all, which makes it highly problematic as a supposed comedy film.
I think the biggest reason why this is so awful is because of just how mean spirited the whole thing is. Obviously at the outset of the film Sandler’s character is supposed to be a jerk, he has written and sings a whole song about how much he hates the holidays and other people, but then the follow through would be that as the film gets further along he will be more and more redeemed yet that doesn’t happen here. Not by a long shot.
On top of that I don’t find anything funny about a grown man making fun of an overweight child or a kindly old man, or any number of other seemingly innocent figures around town that Sandler’s character mocks for being different to him. I want to clarify that I am no shrinking violet, I am not the sort that if they see something problematic in a film would immediately turn it off, but I think there is a clear line in the sand for everyone individually between good and bad taste and I think in my own personal definition of that this film’s jokes are firmly placed in cruel, needless and thoroughly in bad taste.
Overall, a horrible film that Adam Sandler should be ashamed of.
0/5
Pros.
None
Cons.
It is unpleasant
The whole thing is in bad taste
Sandler is hateable here
There is no character redemption
It may be one of the worst films Sandler has ever made
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