I see by its score here that many people did not care for this film, and my question to them is why did you bother watching it? Adam Sandler has been around for a while now and has made numerous movies, so by now you should really know whether or not you are going to enjoy a movie by him or not. I am not his biggest fan, but then, I usually find my comedy from stuff like MST3K and Rifftrax rather than a movie. I watched this one, only because my wife started watching it and it caught my attention when I saw Ben Stiller at the beginning with that horrible mustache! So I watched and while it was silly and goofy and immature, it also provided a nice distraction from a very bad work week for me.

The story starts out with a person escaping a mental institution and then switches to Hubie, a person who is a super nice guy who likes looking out for others, but who gets picked on constantly by the town bullies even at his advanced age. Well, a guy trying to play a prank on Hubie in a corn maze gets taken by something and soon so do others. Hubie suspects it is his new neighbor who may be a werewolf, the town officer thinks it is the escaped mental patient from the beginning and soon they will find out the truth!

The cast is rather good as it was fun to see a lot of the old Saturday Night Live alum in roles as well as Sandler perennials Steve Buschemi and Kevin James. One person who I kept expecting to show up was David Spade, but he was curiously absent from this one, unless I just missed him some how.

So, it is not a super great comedy at all, but I enjoyed it for what it was. I thought the story was harmless enough and I liked the ending as the mother had a really funny line about her destination. It plays out like one of the those films in the 90's featuring a popular Saturday Night Live character in a full movie and like those, it does get a bit too long in the tooth; however, Sandler's Hubie has a bit more depth than girl who folds her arms and the two clubbing brothers. Though, that is not really saying much now is it? In the end, pretty much your typical Sandler character movie, by that I mean he does a voice and tries to be someone totally different rather than when he plays just a regular guy like in Grown Ups or Big Daddy.

Adam Sandler continues with his Netflix comedies which always gave me the impression of sloppy seconds.

In Hubie Halloween. Hubie Dubois (Adam Sandler) is the town's doofus with the goofy voice but a sweet nature.

Halloween is coming to Salem, Massachusetts. There is an escaped patient from a mental institution and some of Hubie's long time tormentors have gone missing.

Hubie is suspicious of his weird new neighbour Walter (Steve Buscemi.) He drools over his dream woman Violet and reports every suspicious activity to police officer Steve Downey (Kevin James) who used to be married to Violet.

There is an all star cast but some like Ben Stiller only appear for a short scene. Hubie Halloween is better than Sandler's other Netflix comedies.

The voice is annoying and my wife had enough of it rather quickly.

As I said before, Sandler knows his audience, he is very popular with various ethnic groups and religions. He delivers what they want regarding the comedy and this film has more diverse casting.

You can't expect anything but silliness from an Adam Sandler comedy, and this artsy looking Halloween comedy does give me some laughs through bad taste and some of the most ridiculous aspects of society that really need to be laughed at more often. Sandler is Hubert Dubois, a deli clerk in Salem Massachusetts who is Salem's unofficial Halloween safety monitor. He's also not very well liked, and there are many reasons for that other than his distinct voice which I have actually heard on people in life. He has a tendency to be a bit too blunt, telling people things in public that they don't want others to hear, and that results in Sandler pelted by the local teens with food and other disgusting objects. He's also a very dim bulb, getting into situations that others would avoid, mainly because he has absolutely no common sense whatsoever.

So while there's not really a strong story, you do get encounters with one of the odd neighbors including Steve Buscemi who thinks he's a werewolf, Rob Schneider as an escaped mental patient, Ray Liotta as the rudest man in town and Ben Stiller as the vicious mental institution orderly. Veteran character actress June Squibb is also memorable as Sandler's mother who made love her son but I can't help but express his weaknesses in public.

The film is overloaded with Halloween style props, much of it garish and a humorous slam at holiday obsessed communities that tend to overdress their town with decorations. I also love the polite little knock at news channels who focus on looks over quality, hiring dim but buxom females over experienced journalists. At least Sandler's strange voice pattern never changes, and as annoying as it may be at times, it's in line with all of the other voices I've heard him utilize. The main problem for me is that this film has far too many characters, so it becomes difficult remembering who is who especially since they don't appear consistently, only intermittently. Other than that, I had a good time watching this, chuckling more and more as the film went on.