32~- North Shore News — Friday, November 10, 2000

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Directed by Stephen Brill.
Starring Adam Sandiez and
Patricia Arquette.

NOT satisfied with
plumbing the depths of
the toilet bow! for
humour in Big Daddy,
‘Adam Sandler digs a lit-
tle deeper, the pits of
Hell, for the gags in
Little Nicky.

Watching Sandler's latest
tilm is like going to a comedy
club where the headliner
stinks. You know exactly
where you’re supposed to
laugh, but after that first half-
hearted chuckle you're look-
ing for the exit.

The devil (Harvey Keitel}
has reigned for 10,000 years,
and his sons expect him to
choose a successor to the

throne of darkness, Adrian

- (Rhys Ifans) is the brainy one, .

~ Cassius (Tommy “Tiny”
! Lister) the brawn, and Nicky
a a ge entle soul who clearly
’ got is conscience from his
mother’s side. (Firstly, why are
there three sons, when one
gets offed so early? Some kind
- of King Lear allusion? A.
make-work project for Tiny?)
Anyway, when Satan

decides to extend his term for. ,

‘ another 10,000 years Nicky is
-felieved,. but his brothers
decide wreaking havoc on
Earth will be more. fun than.

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sticking around underground.

Un rtunately, when they
flee through the fiery portal
of Hell it freezes shut, so no
new damned souls can get in,
and the devil loses his powers
and immediately starts to
decompose. Nicky is the only
one who can save his father
by going up to Earth, captur-
ing Cassius ard Adrian in a
silver flask, and bringing them
back to Hell. (Don’t ask.)

At first, Nicky can’t seem
to stay alive long enough to
be any us¢ to his father, so

appoints a randy talking
bul Idog to show Nicky the
ropes on Earth.

While looking for his
brothers, who are corrupting
souls left and right, Nicky
meets nerdy Valerie (Patricia
Arquette) and hones his forces
of evil, initially practising on a
Coke can. (I wonder how
much Coca Cola paid to get
Pepsi compared to “moose
piss”? And the angels drink,

what else, Diet Coke.
Between that and the trequent
placement of Popeye's
Chicken in the trame, Little
Nicky is a little piece of adver-
tising heaven.)

Reese Witherspoon and co.
are good for a few Iaughs as
angels with accents straight in
from the Valley. Quentin
Tarantine has at least wo
scenes too many as a blind
religious zealot, and Hell is
probably just the right place
for Rodney Dangerfield, who
does his “no respect” schtick
for an audience eternally
damned to listen to him. Star
cameos also pepper the mix.

But the cast is continually
overreaching for jokes, and
the few subrle laughs are out-
numbered by deflated gags
which are essentially regurgi-
tated from other teen flicks
and past Sandler efforts.
Urinating on the street
seemed to go over big in Big
Daddy (it was even featured

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on the movie's poster) so hav-
ing Nicky drop his pants and
squat for that other call of
nature on the sidewalk should
be even more hilarious, right?
How about even more gay-
bashing? Paraplegics crashing
into a bus?

There’s a fat line between
being offensive and being too
politically correct. Little Nicky
can’t even see the line from

where it is. PATRICIA Arquetie end Adam Sandler siar in Little

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