Review – Little Nicky

This is the movie that Dogma might have been if it hadn’t been so damn pretentious. Now, that isn’t to say that this is necessarily a better movie. There are more than a few disadvantages to trying to make a film fly based only on an endless parade of crude sight gags. But if you’re going to make a movie that reeks of frat boy theology, it’s nice to at least do your audience the courtesy of having fun with it rather than taking it seriously. The plot is a silly bit of business about two of Satan’s sons escaping from Hell and spreading havoc on Earth while their father (Harvey Keitel) wastes away back home. This leaves it up to the Beastmaster’s third son, an inept moron (Adam Sandler), to bring his brothers back. Resulting high jinks involve a seemingly endless parade of sophomoric humor and Saturday Night Live alums. I felt the joke start to wear off around midway through, but maybe if you’re in the mood for this kind of thing you could go the distance with it. Mildly amusing