I like animated films and I usually laugh at Adam Sandler....but this was a very unlikeable movie and I am not surprised in the least that it bombed at the box office. Many times Sandler goes too far with his bathroom humor but he really goes overboard here - and in an animated film, no less!
It's about an obnoxious 20-something-year-old guy in a small town who slowly is turned into a nice person and sees the good in the Hanukkah/Christmas season. Well, that sounds good. It also has some nice colors, as animated films tend to boast.
However, after 20 minutes of listening to this high-pitched horrible voice of the old geezer in the picture, who is a key figure, and Sandler's aggravating character, this was just too unappealing. I never wound up finishing the film, to be honest. I was not going to wade through an hour-and-a-half of this crap.
Oh, yes, by the way, later the old man has a seizure and that is played for laughs. Is this movie sick or what? I'm just glad I didn't get stuck going to a theater and having to walk out. It was much easier just putting the disc back in the box and returning it to the video store, to get something with a little more class.
Sandler hit an all-time low with this project. I think he's a good enough comedian without all the below-the-belt material and I wonder why he has to resort to that stuff all the time.
It's about an obnoxious 20-something-year-old guy in a small town who slowly is turned into a nice person and sees the good in the Hanukkah/Christmas season. Well, that sounds good. It also has some nice colors, as animated films tend to boast.
However, after 20 minutes of listening to this high-pitched horrible voice of the old geezer in the picture, who is a key figure, and Sandler's aggravating character, this was just too unappealing. I never wound up finishing the film, to be honest. I was not going to wade through an hour-and-a-half of this crap.
Oh, yes, by the way, later the old man has a seizure and that is played for laughs. Is this movie sick or what? I'm just glad I didn't get stuck going to a theater and having to walk out. It was much easier just putting the disc back in the box and returning it to the video store, to get something with a little more class.
Sandler hit an all-time low with this project. I think he's a good enough comedian without all the below-the-belt material and I wonder why he has to resort to that stuff all the time.