Review of Eight Crazy Nights (2002) by Deanfalcon — 03 Feb 2018

It seems to be going in a How the Grinch Stole Christmas story, where an angry jerk hates the holiday cheer and festivity, but eventually would redeem himself of his ways. Which is why a movie like this fails, it’s pretty unoriginal, which makes this really predictable. Also, this story is supposed to be a character-driven story, but the problem is that the main character is such and likeable dickhead. Not to mention, it goes out of it’s way to throw various amounts of product placement to where it becomes a part of the story. Also, they try to throw in as many gross-out jokes as possible, from fart jokes, crap jokes, or others. But at least, it had a bit of structure to follow. So, the story is definitely crappy, but in its own sense was even worse than would expect. Now regarding on the animation, this is the strongest thing about this movie by a landslide. If you think that's a great thing, it really isn't, regarding the worst parts of this are just way bad. However, this on the other hand is pretty tremendous. The animation seems to go in a more of a style like Iron Giant or Osmosis Jones, which is understandable for new and unique animated films of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. The thing with both of the other films have their strong point where they'd stand out from the crowd. Like Osmosis Jones and their use of facial expressions and character design. For Iron Giant, it's definite strong point is the Giant himself, and the wonderful character design and expressions. Here however, they have nothing special that'll make it visually stand out. I'll give credit that they have great character animation, good and subtle use of CGI. But at times, the animation can be limited, and the gross out factor really does show, and makes this sort of unwatchable. So the animation is still good, I guess that'll be something to be remembered here.

With the characters, I am very surprised. That these are the most unlikeable, annoying, insufferable characters I've seen in a long time. Sure, you can say Whitey would be be a good character, but his voice is so annoying. His sister, Eleanor is an easy throwaway. Benjamin, a kid that befriends Davey, who'd seem like a good character but doesn't get much screen time and is only appearing in one whole scene which is useless filler. Jennifer, Benjamin's mother, who is just a love interest. And we got Davey himself, the most unlikeable main character I've ever seen in an animated movie, who is careless to everyone and just does the worst things from giving Whitey a Porta Potty ride to speeding through his town and destroying property. Also, a quick mention to the company mascots, who only appear during a song and is there just for product placements. Overall, the characters are definitely the worst part of this feature, and I’m just lucky the movie bombed, so I can never see these characters again.