It's that time of year again - Halloween, the time of year when we spend far too much on costumes that we wear once and eat so many sweets that we're literally sweating sugar. It's also the time of year were we spend countless hours watching horror films, and it's also the time when we get stupid comedies that aren't so bad that they're good, they are just bad. Hubie Halloween the latest Adam Sandler and Netflix team up 'comedy' is just that. Last year Sandler built himself a reputation as a guy who can actually act given the right material as the gambling jeweler in Uncut Gems. So good of a reputation in fact that he was praised for his good work, this is perhaps the opposite. It's not the Safdie Brothers' literal diamond mine of a film...nope Hubie is the bad mine, the one with no diamonds and should be condemned. Sandler is Hubie a devout Halloween connoisseur who is picked on and teased by the entire town of Salem, Massachusetts. He's essentially the same character as in Waterboy or Little Nicky or maybe even Billy Maddison you know that kind of annoying character that you just want to smack in the chops and hope they never speak again. But unlike the aforementioned Maddison who is actually good Hubie is awful in comparison, he's the kind of person you only see in a bad dream. And that's exactly what this film is, it's a bad dream. It's not funny, or charming and has about as much personality as a cigarette that was stomped out 20 years ago, around the time Sandler did this type of film. It seems like history is repeating itself, but then that much was clear for Sandler more than 10 crappy 'comedies' ago. 1/5. Just a stubied waste.
Review of Hubie Halloween
