10 Worst Adam Sandler Movies Ever

10. Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

Even in animated form, Sandler infuriated casual viewers and critics alike with this mean-spirited Hanukkah-based holiday movie. The movie casts Sandler in the skin of alcoholic troublemaker Davey, who is handed a 'get out of jail free' card by a kindly old man named Whitey. If Davey can stay on the straight and narrow for a while learning to become a basketball referee, his 10-year prison sentence will be wiped away.

Holiday films can often be accused of being cheesy, predictable, and formulaic, and Eight Crazy Nights is guilty of all three, but these kinds of movies also tend to be heartwarming and inspiring, two traits that Sandler's flick is sorely lacking. There's no real meaning to the movie, the songs are mostly awful, and the jokes fall exclusively between offensively bad and just plain offensive.

Like with many of Sandler's flicks, there was potential here. The premise paves way for a 'Christmas Carol' style story of redemption, but several plotlines are left unexplored and the ending is thoroughly unfulfilling. Critics lambasted Eight Crazy Nights for its toilet humour and lack of laughs, and the film signalled Sandler's last foray into animated works until Hotel Transylvania some ten years later.