31 Nights of Halloween Horror - Hubie Halloween

Hubie Halloween
102 mins.
Dir. Steve Brill
2020/USA




Taking another break from all the horror, I had to take a look at Adam Sandler's Hubie Halloween.  Not the world's biggest Adam Sandler fan, he was funny in the beginning, but the same joke wears thin over and over again.  But with that being said, you throw Halloween into the mix and I'm in.  

To put it bluntly Hubie Halloween is a Waterboy halloween special, sadly without Fairuza Balk.  Sandler play Hubie another man child of a character with a stupid voice and low I.Q.  This time he is living in Salem, Massachusetts and is the self proclaimed Halloween safety police of the town.  Wether they want it or not, and seems like most people don't want it.  Kids make fun of him, adults make fun of him, he gets things thrown at him as he rides down the street.  Everything from eggs, to dog feces, to toilets and firecrackers.  But Hubie dodges them all.  Hubie loves Halloween, which is ironic because he seems to get scared of every Halloween prank that jumps out at him.  His house is that home on the block loaded with Halloween decorations and he volunteers around town to help out and teach Halloween safety where he can.  When people start to go missing on Halloween night it is up to Hubie to find out what is happening to them.  Could it be the insane lunatic escaped from the asylum?  Could it be his neighbor Steve Buscemi who may or may not be a werewolf?  The girl he has a crush on that is maybe not so sweet after all?  Or somebody completely different?



When it comes down to it, you know exactly what you are getting into with this.  It's dumb Adam Sandler humor, it is one of his idiotic characters and one of his super annoying voices which to me generally ruin the movie.  But there are a ton of cameos from people in other Adam Sandler films and it is based around Halloween, which in itself is a pretty awesome thing.  Not enough movies are based around the holiday of Halloween.  You have a ton of dumb Xmas movies every year, but why no Halloween?  It doesn't have to be a horror movie, a comedy or something revolving around the Holiday would be cool every once in awhile, just lay off that kiddie shit with Halloweentown and Hocus Pocus nonsense.  Let get something a little more adults.  We love Halloween just as much as the kids.  So Hubie Halloween, yeah I chuckled a few times, it's great to see the holiday celebrated so lavishly, I wish it was like that everywhere.  It's light-hearted when you need a break, and probably something we could all use right now.  Have no feat, tomorrow we will return with more horror to satiate your hunger.



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