![]() Shaq is here, and so is Steve Buscemi, and Maya Rudolph, and Kevin James even Rob Schneider, typically execrable, is used sparingly, responsible for one of the movie’s funniest lines, a line that is about peeing himself. ![]() There’s Ray Liotta, game for getting typecast as “loudmouthed lech” there is Michael Chiklis, his head a thumb. The movie’s bloated with physical gags, often at the expense of Hubie’s face, nards and/or dignity, and flush with character actors seemingly having a blast. So goes the story of a grown man named Hubie (Sandler) who lives with his mother (June Squibb, lovely) and, obsessed with Halloween, takes it upon himself to make sure the denizens of Salem, Massachusetts celebrate safely every year, even though they resent him so much they throw increasingly unwieldy objects at him wherever he goes. Nostalgia may make for cheap bait in a pandemic, but amidst the predictable appearance of all of Sandler’s friends and the insistence that no matter how pathetic a titular Adam Sandler character can get, many wonderful women will always, against all odds, love him fiercely, Hubie Halloween exorcises many of the mean-spirited ghosts that have haunted his canon. After all, if this is punishment, we deserve this, right? But somehow, despite history and common sense demonstrating otherwise, Steven Brill’s seasonal ode to the Sandman’s baby voice is as much a disarmingly, genuinely sweet endeavor as it is a rehabilitation of Sandler’s earliest successes- Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore especially, what with the cameos by a McDoyle and Ben Stiller as a vindictive orderly-once-beloved movies that haven’t so much aged poorly as just feel like they belong to a different lifetime entirely. Perhaps apocryphal, Adam Sandler’s promise/threat to follow up an Uncut Gems Oscar snub with a new movie “so bad on purpose just to make you all pay” (as he told Howard Stern a year-or-so ago) may have come to collect with the ostensibly dumb Hubie Halloween. Stars: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta, Rob Schneider, June Squibb, Kenan Thompson, Shaquille O’Neal, Steve Buscemi, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Karan Brar, Paris Berelc, Noah Schnapp, China Anne McClain, Michael Chiklis Today we take a look at the 10 best Adam Sandler movies: In the words of Rob Schneider’s various characters, “You can do it!” We’re still hoping for more of those envelope-pushing roles from the performer, especially after seeing what he’s really capable of. Sandler seems just as happy making both kinds of movies, but we’re mostly happy he’s willing to take any risks at all considering how stable his comic formula seems to be. This countered an increasingly tepid series of comedies that involved the same group of actors failing to convince us that they give a damn in a variety of exotic locales. His underrated acting abilities (even in films like Reign Over Me) would serve him well, leading to a critical career revival in Uncut Gems. Happy Madison Productions would never reclaim the novelty of Sandler’s weird voices or its ‘90s power, but Sandler would-by going dramatic. After cutting his teeth as a musical weirdo on SNL, he went on to forge a unique on-screen identity as a surreal and fratty man-baby in a string of hit lowbrow comedies. The best movies of Adam Sandler, the Sandman himself and the fashion prince trying to single-handedly bring gigantic basketball shorts back into the world, see him wear a lot of hats.
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