Bedtime stories (2008) makes you want to ‘believe in happy endings’: or does it? Adam Shankman
(Hairspray) gives you Disney, and boringly so. One must not ignore the stark effort made to envelope
several elements of cinema on overdrive.
Adam Sandler, known for his raunchy and slap-stick roles, plays Skeeter Bronson; a handyman, in what
should be his own hotel, but was sold by his father (the narrator-yes it is a narrative) to Richard Griffiths
(Barry Notthingham).s Hope prings eternal, and Sandler is finally given the chance to prove himself
worthy of owning what is rightfully his, when he plays babysitter to his niece and nephew. With them he
creates stories that turn into reality that help him on his way to ownership.
Though an intentional comedy, there was severe need for comic relief, and a continuous joke about a
bug-eyed
guinea pig or Russell Brand’s (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) astute stupidity are a one-off laugh.
Bedtime Stories definitely provides for 98 minutes of zero family awkwardness.
In theory I have seen this movie five times-it puts me to sleep easily. This is not Sandler (who confesses
at a press conference, that it is easier on his conscious to know that his kids are watching this movie,
rather than any of his others); and I am sure Keri Russell (Waitress) and Shankman have seen better
days. James Chrisopher (Times Online) sums it up well: “Adam Shankman’s idea of directing a Walt
Disney film is to pump quantities of schmaltz into every available hole.”
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