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This movie was weak- very sub par. The characters were mainly annoying. Sandler once again plays a tough guy underdog wannabe who comes out on top in the end (ho-hum). Most annoying were the two Russels: Keri Russell and Russell Brand. Keri is as vacuous as ever; her role could have been played by a mannequin. She deserves to be blacklisted for her role as a self-absorbed college student in "Felicity". I used to run out of the room whenever my wife had it on. Russell Brand has no business being in show business. He is a boring pseudo transvestite who makes a living off of a contrived Cokney accent. The children in the film were cookie-cutter clichés that added to the boredom. Courteney Cox needs to give it up. She resembles an anorexic hooker looking for her next fix. Her character was stuck on "bitchy".

I've got to say that Lucy Lawless never looked better. She needs to stick with that short black hairdo - very hot! Guy Pierce stole the show as the obnoxious yuppie type - great characterization.

The plot was childish and predictable. It seemed that they made it up as they went along. There were so many implausibilities as to not waste my time listing them all. I will give credit to the director, though - the scenes where the ancient Greek arena is depicted and the "Star Wars" set were professionally done, displaying the awesome ability of modern-day movie technology. Otherwise, this movie was pretty much a waste of time and money.

I saw Bedtime Stories a while back but this was a film I couldn't believe how much I didn't like this film, it was absolutely ridicules and I'm sorry but it insults even the children's intelligence. Adam Sandler, I'm going to tell a story: Once upon a time, a man named Adam Sandler made over a million dollars doing baby voices, he also released several movies. Some being hits(i.e. The Wedding Singer) and some being huge misses(i.e. You Don't Mess With The Zohan). He was a funny man but for some odd reason decided to choose to make some really lousy choices in film. Bedtime Stories is one of them, it's extremely predictable and beyond stupid. I couldn't believe all the cliché's in this film not to mention, I love how in every Disney film they have to have an "adorable" animal steal the screen, which this one wasn't even adorable, it was down right disturbing. I don't even know if I should sum up the story since it's predictable, but if you wanna know.

Skeeter Bronson is a hotel leader who is promised as a child by his father Marty to be the manager of the family hotel, but later it is bought by chain Nottingham Hotels. 25 years later, the new manager Mr. Nottingham plans to build a new hotel and appoints another man, the snotty Kendall to become the manager, because he is dating his daughter. Skeeter's sister asks him to watch her kids, because the school at which she is the principal is being closed and she is looking for a job in Arizona. The first night, Skeeter tells a bedtime story taking place in medieval times, with some additions from her kids. It comes true. Mr. Nottingham gives Skeeter a shot at the manager position when he says his new hotel theme was taken by Hard Rock Hotel and on his way home it rains gumballs, all from the story. The next night, at the hotel, he tells another story set in the Old West, and when he waits for it to come true, a man steals his wallet. He saves Mr. Nottingham's daughter, Violet , from the paparazzi and gets kicked by a dwarf. The night after that, out on a campfire, he tells them about a Greek stunt man, and he ends up falling for his sister's friend and fellow colleague Jill. The last night, he tells them about a space fight, and unfortunately makes the discovery, and they change the ending to him being hit by a gigantic ball of fire.

Bedtime Stories has it's occasional laughs, but it seems like this was more made for a 4 year old. The characters are not developed or really likable. Adam Sandler has made a career on making stupid baby voices, I mean, how is it that this man gets several million dollars on doing that? But if that's what people like to see, I'm just glad that I got to see this for free. It wasted my time, it wasn't cute, the cast was out of place and the kids were annoying as heck. I wouldn't really recommend watching this movie, it's not even a good family movie. I'm sorry, but a 6.2 rating is beyond too generous for this stupid movie.

2/10

I had heard about this film made by Disney, and I knew the leading actor, but only the title was a clue as to what it would involve, so I watched with intrigue, from director Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner, A Walk to Remember, Cheaper by the Dozen 2). Basically Marty Bronson (Jonathan Pryce) promised his son that he would one day become the manager of the family hotel, but years later his son, Skeeter (Adam Sandler), has become a hotel handyman, and the business was handed to germ fearing Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths). The big hit Sunny Vista Nottingham Hotel was built over the old one, with Kendall (Guy Pearce) as manager, but Barry plans a more elaborate hotel, with a theme he is keeping secret. Skeeter meanwhile is asked by his sister, Webster Elementary School principal Wendy (Courteney Cox), to look after her children Bobbi (Laura Ann Kesling) and Patrick (Jonathan Morgan Heit), while she is out of town looking for a job, as her school is under threat of demolition. Looking after them during the day is Wendy's friend and school teacher Jill Hastings (Keri Russell), he is taking the evening shifts, and this includes telling them bedtime stories, so he decides to make one up, based on his experiences being "underappreciated". The story Skeeter tells is with a medieval theme, where he is downtrodden squire "Sir Fixalot", rival to "Sir Buttkiss" (Kendall), and the king (Barry) gives them the chance to both compete for a job, and the children add their own details to the tale, such as it raining gum balls. The next day at work it looks like the new hotel's theme will be rock and roll, but Skeeter reminds them of the Hard Rock Hotel, so Barry offers both him and Kendall to compete against each other to pitch a suitable theme, and while driving he is showered with gum balls (from a crashed truck). He concludes that the bedtime story he told brought good luck into his reality, and for his next story he tells one with a western theme, where he is a cowboy who gets a free horse named "Ferrari" from Chief Running Mouth (Rob Schneider), but Bobbi and Patrick think he should save a damsel in distress who rewards him with a kiss, and be kicked by a dwarf. Later that night he hopes to get a free Ferrari car, and he spots a man resembling the Native American (Schneider again), but is a Pickpocket, and the Ferrari appears, driven by Barry's socialite daughter Violet (Teresa Palmer), and he saves her from hoarding paparazzi, and when they are about to kiss he gets kicked by a dwarf. Skeeter is sure that it is Bobbi and Patrick adding things to the bedtime stories that changes his fortunes in reality, and the next night he needs ideas for his hotel theme pitch the next day, but they just want an action and romance packed story, so he does tell one with a Greek theme, where he is Skeeticus trying to impress the onlooking crowd, and he attracts an attractive maiden, and all his ex lovers look on in jealousy and sing the "Hokey Pokey", and they enter a cave with Abraham Lincoln in it, but the story stops when Skeeter upsets the kids. The next day on the beach Skeeter is sure he is meeting Violet, but he instead bumps into Jill, they go to lunch together, see all his ex girlfriends looking jealous, and inexplicably do the "Hokey Pokey", and they stop under a pier, where a coin with Abraham Lincoln on it drops, this weird predicting makes Jill leave. It comes to Skeeter's last night with Bobbi and Patrick, and he goes for a space themed bedtime story where he and Kendall battle in anti gravity, Skeeter talking gibberish all the way, Kendall defeated and covered in goo, and it ends happily, until there is the addition of the hero being incinerated. Skeeter is panicking constantly when he is near fire, thinking he will catch alight, but he goes ahead with his hotel theme pitch, after Kendall has done his about Braodway Musicals, and his friend Mickey (Russell Brand) has to translate for him after a wasp stings his tongue, and his simple approach talking about family wins the competition. After Kendall has been defeated and covered in dog's saliva, but then a big birthday cake for Barry comes in, and Skeeter panics that this is what will cause him to catch fire, and the angered hotel manager fires him, this was the connection, and not long after this he finds out with Jill, Bobbi and Patrick that the school is to be demolished and replaced by Barry's new hotel. Eventually though Skeeter has his spirit lifted again, and he takes Jill on a high speed motorcycle ride to go and save the school, with flashes of his bedtime story personalities seen along the way, and he also saves the children who went inside without returned Wendy noticing. In the end the school is saved, the new hotel is given rightfully back to the Bronson family, Skeeter opens his own small motel business in honour of his father, Kendall and his scheming partner Aspen (Xena: Warrior Princess's Lucy Lawless) are forced to be waiting staff, and after kissing earlier the final text says that Jill and Skeeter get married. Also starring Carmen Electra as Hot Girl. Sandler is the likable goof ball and loser who needs a break and gets it in a magical, the supporting cast all do their parts well too, including Brand who gets some good wisecracking moments, it is a clever format where children's story ideas translate into the character's real life situations, in a hilarious fashion, the jokes and special effects help bring it all to life as well, it is a great fun fantasy comedy all the family can enjoy. Good!

This is just a poor, poor excuse for a children's movie. There are some movies you can take your kid to see that don't insult your kid's intelligence and don't insult the parent's either. This isn't one of them though my 7 year old liked the movie. It won't amuse anyone with half a brain who is much older than 7 though.

The script is so lame that within a few minutes you know what will happen throughout. Sandler moronically mugs his way through his part, which is no surprise since so many characters he chooses to play are moronic. But what are good actors like Jonathan Pryce, Guy Pearce, and Lucy Lawless doing in this mess? The fairy tale sequences, which are featured so prominently in the ad campaign, make up a very short part of the movie and in no way make up for the lame-brained "real" plot.

The most unrealistic element of the whole movie, though it is inevitable, is that the Keri Russell character, a teacher pursuing an advanced degree, would fall in love with a blithering idiot who repeatedly insulted her.

One curiosity to note is the apparently ageless Richard Griffiths who looks exactly the same as he did 18 years ago in the Naked Gun 2 1/2.