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Bedtime Stories (2008)

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Reviews Counted:102

Fresh:25

Rotten:77

Average Rating:4.4/10

Consensus: Though it may earns some chuckles from pre-teens, this kid-friendly Adam Sandler comedy is uneven, poorly paced, and lacks the requisite whimsy to truly work.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for some mild rude humor and mild language.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:26-12-2008

Synopsis: Having promised to make a film his own kids could enjoy, Adam Sandler (YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN) delivers the goods in the charming fairy tale BEDTIME STORIES. As the film opens we meet Marty... Having promised to make a film his own kids could enjoy, Adam Sandler (YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN) delivers the goods in the charming fairy tale BEDTIME STORIES. As the film opens we meet Marty Bronson, running the family motel along with his children, Wendy and Skeeter. Marty's ruinous business sense forces him to sell the motel to ambitious developer Barry Nottingham. Marty hopes Skeeter will run the business someday, but years later we find Skeeter (Sandler) working only as the new hotel's maintenance man. So when Wendy (Courteney Cox) asks Skeeter to babysit her kids, Bobbi and Patrick, Skeeter--a master storyteller--wins them over by crafting bedtime stories that reflect his frustrations. From ancient Rome to outer space, Skeeter is the heroic underdog defeating his hotel rival, Kendall (Guy Pearce), and winning the hand of Nottingham's daughter. But when the kids' creative additions cross over into true life, Skeeter is convinced that they're the key to his sudden success. The price of that success, though, is the destruction of the kids' school. To save the school, his relationship with Wendy's kids, and the affections of love interest Jill (Keri Russell), Skeeter must bring his storytime heroics into the real world. Sandler puts his trademark man-child antics to good use as the disheartened handyman who fulfills his dreams by staying true to the people who matter most. Filled with plenty of humor and a heartfelt message, BEDTIME STORIES is an uplifting family fable that can be appreciated by parents and children alike. [More]

Starring: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths

Starring: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Courteney Cox, Lucy Lawless, Teresa Palmer, Russell Brand, Aisha Tyler, Jonathan Pryce

Director: Adam Shankman

Director: Adam Shankman
Screenwriter: Matt Lopez, Tim Herlihy
Story: Matt Lopez
Producer: Adam Sandler, Jack Giarraputo, Andrew Gunn
Composer: Rupert Gregson-Williams
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

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Those other Adam Sandler comedies? Turns out they were the grown-up efforts.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
12/24/08
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post

Bedtime Stories champions imagination while having too little originality itself.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
12/24/08
Joe Neumaier
Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News

It's Little Nicky-awful.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
12/24/08
Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson
Jam! Movies

The new Disney movie Bedtime Stories presents a taste test for moviegoers: Do you prefer your Adam Sandler regular strength or in the new mild format?

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
12/24/08
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

It's a dispirited, galumphing mess in which Sandler, as a hotel handyman who spins out tall tales for his niece and nephew, pictures himself in assorted historical-kitsch guises.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
12/24/08
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

Bedtime Stories is not my cup of tea. Even the saucer. Fairness requires me to report, however, that it may appeal to, as they say, 'kids of all ages.'

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
12/24/08
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Bedtime Stories is baloney on Wonder Bread with a Kraft Single and some Miracle Whip -- barely lunchable.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
12/24/08
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

The novelization of the screenplay probably would make a pretty decent bedtime story.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
12/24/08
Arizona Republic

Bedtime Stories is clean enough to fly the Walt Disney Pictures flag, yet it's full of bimbos and cleavage and shots of Adam Sandler getting kicked in the shins by a dwarf.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
12/24/08
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

For parents who aren't Sandler fans, Bedtime Stories may seem like just another dumb comedy that their kids will drag them to over the holidays.

Full Review Source: Christianity Today | comment Comment
12/23/08
Peter T. Chattaway
Peter T. Chattaway
Christianity Today

It takes two bad genres -- live-action Disney dreck and lowest-common-denominator Sandler humor -- and blends them into one unfunny mess.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
12/23/08
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

Bedtime Stories is like watching a Michel Gondry movie rewritten and directed by Uwe Boll.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
12/23/08
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com

Sandler's mischievous heart just doesn't belong in a straight-up kid zone like Bedtime Stories, especially one with a script that doesn't elevate beyond the expected.

Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | comment Comment
12/23/08
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
BrianOrndorf.com

Box-office commodity Adam Sandler is repositioned as kid-friendly in Bedtime Stories, a Disney movie that plays better on a balance sheet than a screen.

Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
12/23/08
Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Orlando Sentinel

Once upon a time-passer.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment Comment
12/23/08
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

Bedtime Stories isn't Sandler's best movie, nor is it his worst; it's just perfectly harmless fun that the kids will probably love just a little bit more than their parents.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
12/23/08
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net

[C]heap and lazy and obvious...

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
12/23/08
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Harmless, sure -- but also needless.

Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
12/22/08
Christy Lemire
Christy Lemire
Associated Press

In a modern-day fairy tale about hopes, aspirations and family, Sandler displays a winning form under the light and mischievous direction of Bringing Down the House's Adam Shankman.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
12/22/08
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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The shortage of wit and the excess of goo can be summed up in Sandler's line to these children of divorce: 'I'm like the stink on your feet -- I'll always be there.'

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
12/22/08
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
 
 
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