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- "Little Nicky"
(Reviewed October 24, 2000)
- This is a pretty bad movie, but there are a few laughs in it. Not very many, but a few. Don't get me wrong, most of it is damned bad, especially the stunningly unfunny scene that
takes place in heaven. But Adam Sandler always manages to be likable, Harvey Keitel makes a good devil dad, and Rodney Dangerfield is swell as the devil granddad.
Most of the rest of the cast
members seem to have been cast because they were friends of the producers or something. (The two metalheads who follow Nicky around New York are at least twice as old as the characters should be, for
example.) And one can only wonder how much money Popeyes chicken put up to be Nicky's "awesome" favorite.
Speaking of which: I kept waiting for one of the errant lightning bolts from one of the devils' hands to split the Popeyes logo so it would say "Pope yes," which would have been kind of a clever
good-vs.-evil joke. But apparently the screenwriters never looked at the Popeyes logo as closely as my eagle-eyed brother John did. (Hi!)
Dumb-comedy-wise, this one is way down there. But it beats wasting your money on swill like "Pay It Forward" any day of the week.
Back Row Grade: D-
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