Hubie Halloween Is A Treat Not A Trick

Hubie Halloween

2020 | PG-13 | 1 Hour 42 Minutes | Comedy | Happy Madison

Director: 

Steven Brill 
Writers: 

Tim Herlihy, Adam Sandler

Stars: 

Adam Sandler

Kevin James

Julie Bowen

Synopsis:

Good-natured but eccentric community volunteer Hubie Dubois finds himself at the center of a real murder case on Halloween night. Despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), Hubie is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike.

Lessons Learned 

A few weeks back I posted the trailer for Hubie and thought ugh this looks so bad, yet most of the comments were pretty upbeat. I'm here to say I was wrong and I'm sorry Hubie Halloween was pure joy and none stop fun! Now I will say I groaned a bit when Adam Sandler starting talking in voice for his charter and thought to myself oh no here we go. Thankfully that would quickly fade as the story began to unfold. And to be completely honest its the star power of its young cast that draws you in not the Happy Madison gang. 

Hubie

Hubie himself had a nice charm to him this poor man was both obsessed with and terrified by Halloween. He also plays the local snitch, acting as an amateur cop and alerting the authorities to every tiny infraction, which they find unbearable. “Hubie” is, to some extent, a satire of horror films, as for Sandler, like him or not, his dumb schtick is disarmingly quiet and warm throughout the movie. Sadly his best jokes really do not have much to do with Halloween and that is ok.

Bonner

Every Holiday season I start to think of my mom and how much she would do for everybody to make the holidays incredible. Then walks in the wonderful June Squibb who plays Hubies mom, whom he still lives with, and in every scene, she unknowingly wears an inappropriate secondhand T-shirt that becomes some of the best gags like “Boner Killer” as the movie plays on. This was so my mom always happy and would wear or say things like this and even she did not understand. Squibb warmed my heart every time she lite up the screen man I loved this woman!

A New Tradition

Sandler has had a rough go with critics, often for good reason. But “Hubie Halloween” proves that the problem isn’t that he’s starring in stupid movies; it’s that he’s not starring in enough of the right stupid movies. It's safe to say Hubie Halloween will be watched yearly here in the Man Cave! Maybe I'm over-hyping a little bit but man we all loved this movie.

Oh, and speaking of those Disney stars it was a sweet touch that this movie was dedicated to Cameron Boyce. Boyce was going to appear in the movie before his untimely death on July 6, 2019. He would have reunited with his former co-stars Peyton List and Karan Brar from Disney Channel's Jessie (One show I can tolerate) as well as his former co-stars from Grown Ups and Grown Ups 2. 

Definitely give this one a shot and by all means, you need to check out AEIOU...And sometimes Why? blog post as he shared images from the set, as this was filmed in his neck of the woods. 

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