Connection To A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 - Patricia Arquette
So for better or worse Sandler as tried to do stuff a but the audiences have mostly stayed away where they have shown up in droves to see Chuck and Larry marry, 2 films that are basically vacations for him and his mates and have him play brother and sister... Sandler is stuck, but he and they are making the money.
Which brings me to Little Nicky, which as the distinction of being in the vein of his usual shtick but also a film that didn't set the box office on fire (like in Hell, ha ha ha ha) - I have just spent two paragraphs basically defending Sandler, because to be fair I do actually enjoy his films - not all, I purposely alluded to four in the above paragraph that I didn't like and are probably the four people would hold as the nadir of Sandler's filmography. And so Little Nicky, and despite it's tone sometimes not feeling too right is a film I enjoy.
Sandler though does make a weird choice for his face and voice for the entire film - as in why didn't somebody say to him before production - are you seriously going with that? Maybe somebody did and they was fired or maybe people just had faith in Sandler but his role is quite likable as the idiot-good soon of the Devil (Harvey Keitel) who's 2 other sons (Rhys Ifans and Tommy 'Tiny' Lister) angry that their dad is staying on as ruler of Hell end up going to Earth, which causes his dad to detorate which leaves it only to Nicky to go back and get them.
He meets a love interest along the way played by Patricia Arquette - is her character supposed to be ugly? Because Patricia Arquette is far from ugly, but she fits in with the comedy thing of making you believe she could fall for the schmuck, he also gets help from a dog Mr. Beefy (voiced by Robert Smigel) 2 devil worshipers and his actor roommate (obviously gay) who are played by Sandler's real life friends.
Since this is a comedy I'll ask myself the question - who delivers the funniest performance? Well in my opinion and it's only a small role is Lewis Arquette (the father of Patricia) as the Cardinal that's been taken over by Ifans. I laughed more at his screen time then anybody else... especially when you compare it to the unfunny cameo by Quentin Tarantino.
Other people who appear are Rodney Dangerfield as Lucifer, the Devil's Dad whose entertaining being Dangerfield, Kevin Nealon who gets forced to have tits on his head, I don't think Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey's cameos are funny as they could have been considering who there are. We also get Carl Weathers reprising his Happy Gilmore role, Reese Witherspoon as (DELETED FOR SPOILERS), Henry Winkler as himself and Ozzy Osbourne also as himself - which when watching it again recently just made think this was just before The Osbournes TV show so this was the last time he really had the true mystic as The Prince Of Darkness.
Overall, there is enough funny moments to make it worth a watch, but there are scenes and characters that are simply not funny, worth a watch I think.
Sandler though does make a weird choice for his face and voice for the entire film - as in why didn't somebody say to him before production - are you seriously going with that? Maybe somebody did and they was fired or maybe people just had faith in Sandler but his role is quite likable as the idiot-good soon of the Devil (Harvey Keitel) who's 2 other sons (Rhys Ifans and Tommy 'Tiny' Lister) angry that their dad is staying on as ruler of Hell end up going to Earth, which causes his dad to detorate which leaves it only to Nicky to go back and get them.
He meets a love interest along the way played by Patricia Arquette - is her character supposed to be ugly? Because Patricia Arquette is far from ugly, but she fits in with the comedy thing of making you believe she could fall for the schmuck, he also gets help from a dog Mr. Beefy (voiced by Robert Smigel) 2 devil worshipers and his actor roommate (obviously gay) who are played by Sandler's real life friends.
Since this is a comedy I'll ask myself the question - who delivers the funniest performance? Well in my opinion and it's only a small role is Lewis Arquette (the father of Patricia) as the Cardinal that's been taken over by Ifans. I laughed more at his screen time then anybody else... especially when you compare it to the unfunny cameo by Quentin Tarantino.
Other people who appear are Rodney Dangerfield as Lucifer, the Devil's Dad whose entertaining being Dangerfield, Kevin Nealon who gets forced to have tits on his head, I don't think Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey's cameos are funny as they could have been considering who there are. We also get Carl Weathers reprising his Happy Gilmore role, Reese Witherspoon as (DELETED FOR SPOILERS), Henry Winkler as himself and Ozzy Osbourne also as himself - which when watching it again recently just made think this was just before The Osbournes TV show so this was the last time he really had the true mystic as The Prince Of Darkness.
Overall, there is enough funny moments to make it worth a watch, but there are scenes and characters that are simply not funny, worth a watch I think.
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