Bedtime Stories (2008)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Charming and brutal

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Let Me start of by saying I'm not an Adam Sandler hater, I like quite a few of his movies... this is not one of them.Overall: This movie could be great for younger kids but viewers aged 10+ will probably lose interest.Good: The premise was very fun and could have been great. Bugsy was funny at first but gets old. It promotes a nice message of Children's creativity but it doesn't do it well.Bad: Firstly, it's a Sandler movie. It hits every cliché Adam has in his pocket on the head. It is home to a sub-par script with less than stellar acting and horrible characters. It should have embraced a more mystical, magical method to the madness rather than come up the stupid 'realistic' excuses for the various phenomena. The soundtrack was meh at best and I'm sure I lost IQ watching this movie.Best Part: The first sighting of Bugsy was fun and kind of unexpected.2/10

so Adam Sandler .plays a handy man called skeeter Bronson who liked to fix things in his father reconstructed hotel owned by Barry Nottingham who hates touching people he wants to rebuild his hotel empire and skeeter brother Kendall he is played by guy Pearce is the bad guy and Russel brand play the playboy mickey and model called violet her father is the owner and a gerbil who steals all the scenes with his cute eyes and funny way of doing stuff with the kids there is lots of themes in this film like as Kendell and skeeter battle through to get the best presentation they come fairy tales up with good versus evil scenes like star wars scene really are good when the kind of use light sabras but use magic hands to slap each other and pick his nose .gladiator medieval themes fairy tales princess and real life tale to save the day get what so as skeeter has to mind his sister kids this is a kids film with heart and imagination at heart his stories he tells the kids all about his character as the heroic once upon a time theme against the baddies his night time dreams come a reality in search of his own happy ending literally filled with colorful character whether human or animal no animal or human where hurt in making of this there plenty of humour and he and cameos and stunts to saves the day great family film as which I got to see in the cinema one of Adam sandlers fun films every thing is his magical stories are freeeeeeeeeeeeee including his damsel in distress 7/10 70 review gerbil got to be seen its actual him not computer graphics

The makers of this movie got confused about who they are making it for... is it for the kids, or is it for adults? I absolutely don't recommend any young children to watch it. With bad phrases like licking butt, references to pubs and night life, scantily clad girls, I think the director tried his level best to put in as much trash in there as was possible by remaining within the upper-est level of the official PG rating, with as many hacks as possible, trying to please the filthy adult mind, which they assume all adult parents have who might be watching it with the children. I think I might be a little more conservative then the rest of the folks here, but we must remember, it is the direction you set for children at a young age which will steer their lives later.

Marty Bronson hoped the Sunny Vista Motel would be their home with his son Skeeter (Adam Sandler) and his daughter Wendy (Courteney Cox). But he's not a good businessman, and he's forced to sell to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths) promising to let Skeeter run it when the time comes. Barry has built an impressive hotel, but no longer remembers the promise. Skeeter is only the handyman, and the new manager is Kendall (Guy Pearce) who's engaged to Barry's daughter Violet (Teresa Palmer). Meanwhile Wendy has to leave town and ask Jill (Keri Russell) to watch her kids during the day and Skeeter during the night. He makes up bedtime stories for the kids that somehow comes true.First of all, Skeeter is annoying and doesn't deserves the management hotel job. He's the handyman and he's lucky to have that job. He NEEDS to be a capable man so that his oversight is seen as an injustice. Being nice to the guests is just a bare minimum. All the whining really wears badly. Keri Russell is sweet which balances out Adam Sandler. This family movie is barely that. I guess that why they have the bug-eyed Bugsy, but that guinea pig is just weird.