Little Nicky (2000)
Directed by Steven Brill
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
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Sandler seems to be trying to hide under it, with tight and defensive posture perhaps inspired by "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" or Marty Feldman in "Young Frankenstein."
This is similar to the premise of "Little Nicky," an Adam Sandler abomination released in 2000, with Harvey Keitel as Satan, a role here taken by Peter Stormare.
Only the Satanic scions in "Little Nicky" seemed to get it right -- instead of destroying our world, they indulged themselves in its most appealing offerings, namely vodka and pizza.
With the exception of the terrible “Little Nicky,” Adam Sandler movies have always had charm, to varying degrees.
"Grown Ups" has fewer laughs than "The Benchwarmers," "Little Nicky" or "Lost & Found."
On the grand scale of Adam Sandler movies -- and oh, how grand that scale is! -- Grown Ups registers as a middle-of-the-pack comedy, not the instant classic of a Happy Gilmore or The Wedding Singer but not the heinous affront of Little Nicky.
Adam Sandler’s worst film since the one-two punch of Little Nicky and the inexplicably popular Big Daddy a decade ago, Grown Ups marks the umpteenth collaboration between the comedian and director Dennis Dugan.
I would have informed one of the two local publicity reps that I was leaving but it appeared that they took off once the movie began, no doubt to drink deeply and lustily from the chalice that is Life in ways that didn’t involve sitting through an Adam Sandler movie so shabby that it makes “Little Nicky” look like fricking “Zodiac” by comparison.
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Same with Billy Madison and "Billy Madison" or Nicky and "Little Nicky."
In the latter category, there's "Little Nicky," "Grown Ups" and now "Jack and Jill," a lowbrow drag comedy in which Sandler plays both Jack, a successful, attractive L.A. advertising director, and Jack's identical twin sister, Jill, an overweight, abrasive harpy with a room-temperature I.Q.