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Just for the record, Adam Sandler isn’t one of my all-time favorite comedians. His movies are hit-or-miss for me. I didn’t see Little Nicky in the theatres because of its bad reviews and because it looked pretty lame from the trailer. If watching Adam Sandler twist his lips in some weird way and say, “Popeye’s chicken is awesome!” in an annoying voice is funny (that’s literally all that happens in the trailer), then you’ll love Little Nicky. I am not one of those kind of people. Little Nicky even did poor in the US box office, barely making more than $20 million domestically—rather surprising when Water Boy made over $100 million domestically. [E.N. - Actually, I think a lot of that money come from the fact, that The Water Boy featured the first trailer for Star Wars Episode 1.It also helps that that movie rules, despite that fact that Adam Sandler had already done that movie two times before.] Little Nicky is about Adam Sandler, who is the son of the Devil. Crazy things start to happen when the Devil has the opportunity to pass on his throne to his three sons: the smart one, the strong one, or the stupid one. Adam Sandler is the stupid one. When the Devil chooses neither, hell breaks loose as the two jealous brothers wreak havoc in New York City. The Devil and Grandpa Devil (Rodney Dangerfield) tell Adam Sandler to save the day. Don’t worry, there aren’t any spoilers in that plot description… It all happens in the first ten minutes. Little Nicky is probably one of the least funny comedies I’ve seen recently. It’s not even bad as in “enjoyable bad…” I thought Adam Sandler was hilarious in one of his first movies—Billy Madison, a flick where he played an idiot who had to go through high school again. Here, in Little Nicky, Sandler also plays an idiot—but instead of having funny lines, he just twists his face, laughs to himself at jokes that suck, and makes plugs for Popeye’s Chicken every five minutes. The soundtrack is all heavy metal and sounds OK, although I’m not much of a fan of heavy metal. [E.N. - I've heard that Mat prefers the soothing sounds of ABBA.] While I loved the set design of Hell, the CG effects in this movie are some of the worst I’ve seen. Special effects are used when not even needed… Little Nicky is the second movie I’ve seen where the simple act of spitting something is done as a CG effect and it looks like shit—the first movie I saw where this was used was Me, Myself, and Irene. As bad as Adam Sandler is in this movie, I enjoyed performances by some of the cameos. Jon Lovitz’s cameo at the start of the film is hilarious and Rodney Dangerfield is funny in his usual way. Kevin Nealon does a good job in his odd supporting role. The actors that played the two brothers did OK, as did the romantic interest of Adam Sandler. Little Nicky is very, very bad. Don’t even consider renting it, unless you want to torture your friends with the worst comedy of the year 2000. I give Little Nicky *1/2 out of ****. |