The big question mark is the sci-fi action film Red Planet , which is being pasted by critics but could pull in the sizable young male audience. Little Nicky Reviews don't come much worse than those for Little Nicky , in which Adam Sandler plays a resident of Hell who ventures forth in New York. They must be in league with the Devil to have rated Adam Sandler 's smutty new farce a PG-13. Mike Clark in USA Today notes that none of the criticism of the film probably makes any difference because Adam Sandler movies always open at No. 1 at the box office. That said, let's note that as the end credits rolled at my screening, the groans were even louder than Sandler usually gets.
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But Steve Murray in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution isn't buying any of all that. With every dramatic scene and turn of phrase molded by a formulaic, Screenwriting 101 mentality, it's pure Hollywood pap. Red Planet Critics are seing red over Red Planet . The answer is no. To like that kind of story is to like this kind of movie.