New York gets visited by just about everything, so a young man from Hell with a talking bulldog is no great shakes, probably a "so . . . ," even when the young man, "Little Nicky," is Adam Sandler.
But Sandler and the bulldog give it all they've got, which, according to whom you read, may or may not fly. Nicky's father, Satan, ( Harvey Keitel) has directed young Nick to the Big Ap to find his evil brothers who are raising Cain, ahem, in Manhattan. Presumably Hell is overrun with talking bulldogs, so "Beefy" comes along as well.
Well, wouldn't you know, Nicky trips over Valerie ( Patricia Arquette) and love enters this complex plot. Nicky starts liking Earth too much. All of this is backed by what is called a "cosmically comic cast," which includes Rodney Dangerfield and Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino?
The movie is written by Adam Sandler and Tim Herligy, and directed by Steven Brill and Theo Van De Sande. It is rated PG-13 for crude sexual humor, drugs, language and thematic material, this last must be where Tarantino comes in.
It starts Thursday at Market Square East.
