Silly, overstuffed and as sweet as anything Adam Sandler has done, Hubie Halloween is a full jack-o'-lantern in which the chocolates you hoped for far outnumber the butterscotch tooth-breakers.
Co-written by Tim Herlihy and directed by Steven Brill, both of whom have participated in some of the star/co-writer's cinematic high points and his very low ones, it's a picture recalling the man-child goodwill of Sandler's SNL years that behaves as if the meaner, cruder Grown Ups period never happened.
Those choosing to stay at home instead of trick-or-treating during this year of unfunny horrors could do much worse than this.
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