Saturday, 31 October 2020

VOD: Hubie Halloween (dir: Steve Brill, 2020)

"We all get scared, but this year you're gonna have to find that bravery that's dep within you.  It's time."

The Adam Sandler rollercoaster continues, and whilst Hubie Halloween does not plumb the depths reached by Jack And Jill, it is still a very weak film to sit through.  Like the Goosebumps movie's Halloween-based sequel, the mise-en-scene is beautifully created but is allied to a weak story, not helped by Sandler's belief that character and humour can be built acceptably upon a speech impediment.  The Sandler-movie comedy formula grew tired a long time ago, and although it still clearly finds its audience, this is another of those movies where you simply have to sit and watch the motions being gone through with little entertainment to be found and then move on. 

 

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