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Once upon a time in a land far, far away there lived a boy with a speech impediment, who just happened to be the son of the Prince of Darkness. For those of you with just a second grade education level, the Prince of Darkness is better known as the Devil, Satan, or even Lucifer. But back to the review of Little Nicky, which is the name of Satan's son with the speech impediment. Nicky (Adam Sandler, Big Daddy) is also the son of an Angel played by the gorgeous Reese Witherspoon. You see the Angel and Satan (Harvey Keitel, U-571) hooked up after the Angel had a few too many. So Nicky has both good and evil inside. On the other side of the equation you have Nicky's two evil brothers Adrian (Rhys Ifans, The Replacements) and Cassius (Tom Lister, Jr.) who are just pure evil. The story goes like this: Satan is to decide who will rule Hell for the next 10,000 years (Rodney Dangerfield ruled for the first 10,000, and created the place). Satan decides he should because Nicky is a halfwit and the other two kids are just too mean. This of course pisses off the two evil ones so they set off to create their own Hell on Earth in New York City. By leaving Hell though, they inadvertently freeze the Gates of Hell (not the Pearly Gates, and contrary to popular beliefs Bill Gates does not own these yet, however I think his is working on a sponsorship deal). Now back to our story. With the gates frozen over, no new souls can get in, which cause the devil to start to die, so now Nicky has to head to Earth and get his brothers back in Hell. Of course he his helped along in this quest by a talking dog (Robert Smigel), his new roommate Todd (Allen Covert, Never Been Kissed), and a couple of crazy Satan worshipers. This is the main plot of Little Nicky, but believe it or not, this Adam Sandler film also has a couple of subplots. First you have the romance between Nicky and another social outcast named Valerie (Patricia Arquette, Stigmata). Second you have Nicky trying to discover who he is (he doesn't find out who his mother is till later in the movie). That's it for the plots, but the director Steven Brill threw in a few cameos. Besides Dangerfield, you also have Jon Lovitz, Ozzy Osbourne, Quentin Tarantino, Hitler (Christopher Carroll), and what would a Adam Sandler film be without David Spade. I cant' say this is the best Sandler film I've seen because I liked The Wedding Singer, nor could I say it is the worst (I hated Billy Madison). So I would have to say it fell somewhere in between, and so I give it six couches for the About-Movies.com rating. Not really any good nudity, since fake breasts on the gatekeeper's head (Kevin Nealon, Happy Gilmore) might be funny, but it certainly does not qualify as good nudity. Goodbye and sweet dreams. Last updated: Thursday, March 20, 2008 02:49:48 AM |
