Hubie Halloween (2020)

A man who has always been mocked and bullied in his hometown takes it upon himself to save this year’s Halloween.

I hadn’t watched an Adam Sandler film in a while, but I watched Uncut Gems (2019) last year. I was happily surprised, and I said, “Why not?” Well… now I’m saying, “Why?”! Hubie Halloween‘s audience is very, very, very, very restricted. The film’s level of humour barely scratches the bottom from start to finish, but that’s not what bothered me the most. Hell, it wasn’t even Sandler’s voice.

The film’s theme is walking on thin ice. 99.7% of an American town with a dark history of hunting down people with pitchforks and torches in 2020 is making fun of and brutally bullying someone having a mental illness – whatever that is. It gets worse, though… That town’s once most beautiful woman – Julie Bowen, who still is that town’s most beautiful woman – happens to be that very same town’s nicest girl and part of that 0.3% that actually likes him, with the 0.2% being her nerdy son and the girl he wants to get who also happens to be as merciful and that town’s most good looking high school girl. The rest of the characters are just caricatures. Seriously messed up characters, regarding their role in society, sank into the dark pit of Hollywood’s cliché.

Sandler and Bowen worked together in Happy Gilmore (1996), and admittedly, they are A-list actors. Ben Stiller, June Squibb, Michael Chiklis, Maya Rudolph, Shaquille O’Neal Rob, Schneider, Ray Liotta, Kevin James, and Steve Buscemi become part of it, for better or for worse. Almost everyone from Grown Ups 1 and 2 but also other films too. Sandler is a great collaborator and top-shelf comedian. Sometimes, though, he seems to be signing for everything under the sun, and Netflix constantly condones such a mentality. The movie is dedicated to the late Cameron Boyce, who was meant to be part of it. It’s shuttering that he’s not with us…

For films that can easily be misconstrued or go under the radar, I always advise spending a couple of hours forgetting about the real world’s real problems and enjoying these films regardless of their flaws. This is not the case here. Go for all-time horror classics instead. The film’s message seems dumb, but deep down, it is actually mean-spirited, and I’ll dare to say harmful.

Enjoy Halloween!

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