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Oct 7, 2020 · “Hubie Halloween” attempts to get a lot of comedy mileage out of Adam Sandler yelling like he’s about to die. Another of the Sandman’s lovable grown children, Hubie has become the target of constant pranks by everyone in the town of Salem, especially around Halloween.
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It's October 31st in Salem, Massachusetts, and a town's eccentric, devoted community volunteer and the good-natured object of his fellow citizen's derision and meanest pranks, finds himself in the...
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Oct 7, 2020 · Squarely targeting the teen (or tween) male audience, Hubie Halloween offers a mishmash of Halloween hijinks, potty talk, anatomical humor, and celebrity cameos. Viewers are expected to laugh as Hubie is bullied and insulted for an hour and a half.
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Oct 7, 2020 8:36 pm
Posted: Oct 7, 2020 8:30 pm
Hubie Halloween is available Wednesday, October 7 on Netflix.
Though Netflix might be in the business of unceremoniously ending most of its shows these days, it's still "all in" when it comes to Adam Sandler movies, having already extended the shockingly generous deal it had with the comedian for four more films and another enormous pile of cash. Meanwhile, the sixth and final film from the original Sandler deal, Hubie Halloween, launches this week and, well, the good news is it's not a noxious mess.
It's not as good as the best film in Sandler's Netflix oeuvre, which was Murder Mystery, but it's also heaps better than (arguably) his worst Netflix outing, The Ridiculous 6. Despite gags involving vomit, feces, urine, and other Sandler film staples/secretions, Hubie Halloween is generally a family film, one that harkens back to the likes of early projects such as Billy Madison and The Waterboy. In fact, Sandler's man-child "Hubie" Dubois (full name: Hubert Shubert Dubois) is such a mash up of SNL's Canteen Boy and The Waterboy's Bobby Boucher that it was easy to assume, when he walks through the door of his house, that his mom would be played by Kathy Bates (she's played by June Squibb, and Hubie has a thermos, not a canteen).
On this particular Halloween however, with Hubie suffering the usual slings and arrows from his piggish fellow citizens, the town will have to deal with a Michael Myers-styled escaped lunatic, a possible werewolf, and mysterious kidnappings. These could either all be connected somehow or simply misunderstandings and pranks.
Needless to say, Hubie has his hands full as the self-appointed monitor for Halloween safety and as someone who continually puts others' happiness ahead of his own. One thing that easily earns this Sandler joint a few more points is that the messaging is sweet and kind. It's about the strength it takes to be charitable and caring and how it's always the truly weak who bully and abuse. Naturally, to get to that candy center you'll have to endure dozens of jokes falling flat, a bunch of people falling down, and Hubie falling for every single Halloween prank -- each one making him scream in abject terror.
Actually, that last part, where Hubie sort of violently overreacts to every fake ghost and ghoul he sees is one of the movie's most endearing, and exuberant, running gags. I'm not ashamed to say I chuckled a few times here, over some diabolically dumb s***, but that's because there are actual attempts at traditional comedy in Hubie Halloween and not just Sandler's penchant for presenting us with the lowest common denominator.
Also, aside from Happy Madison company regulars like Steve Buscemi and Rob Schneider (and I guess Kevin James too), this movie has a ton of very talented people popping up in amusingly minuscule parts, from SNL's Melissa Villaseñor, Mikey Day, and Keenan Thompson to grizzled old-guard comedians like Colin Quinn and George Wallace. Also...Ray Liotta? Who I guess is part of this crazy lot now? (All of this is to say that the best cameo, which is a fun Happy Gilmore callback, happens during the first minute of the film.)
Every two or three movies, Adam Sandler returns to his bread and butter, which is to make a sweet but excessively dumb movie about kindness and generosity that's stuffed inside a grab bag of low-hanging fruit comedy. They're sort of the least offensive things he does outside of actually making surprising turns in indie dramas. These films present a...
Oct 8, 2020 · ‘Hubie Halloween’ Review: No Tricks, Few Treats. Adam Sandler stars in this proudly regressive seasonal comedy. Share full article. Julie Bowen and Adam Sandler in “Hubie Halloween.”...
- Steven Brill
Hubie Halloween is a feel good Halloween movie with heart. If you're not a fan of Adam Sandler's kind of comedy you may not enjoy it, but overall it has laugh out loud moments.
Oct 7, 2020 · Perhaps the world’s biggest fan of Halloween, Hubie Dubois feels it’s his duty to keep revelers safe on Salem’s big night. A self-appointed hall monitor who phones in every perceived threat ...
