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Bookmark this pageBedtime Stories (2008)
Director: Adam Shankman
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From Time Out London
Audiences know what they’re getting with the annual Big Disney Christmas Movie: heroic kids, evil adults, and a bumbling hero caught somewhere in between. This year’s chump is Adam Sandler, essaying his usual bipolar man-child schtick as Skeeter Bronson, the handyman at a grand hotel built on the site of the Mom ’n’ Pop motel where he grew up, who is nonplussed when the tales he concocts for his niece and nephew begin to have eerie parallels in real life.‘Bedtime Stories’ starts well, with Sandler’s naturally acerbic persona and wilfully erratic turns from Guy Pearce and Russell Brand serving to offset the script’s more schmaltzy moments. But it descends into pathos, undermined by an insipid romantic subplot and the usual platitudinous guff about self-belief. Insult is added to injury by a series of reactionary, misinformed anti-eco gags and a distressing but inevitable cameo from Rob Schneider as a Native American.
Author: Tom Huddleston
Time Out London Issue 2000/2001, Dec 18-31, 2008
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- katie said...
- Posted on Jul 31 2009 16:40 rightt whyy doess every film i wanna watch be over me age :( i h8 it
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- Jim Carrey said...
- Posted on Jun 13 2009 18:36 I loved it , it was absolutely brilliant
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- Raccoongirl said...
- Posted on Jun 10 2009 20:18 Thought the film was terrible. So slow and boring. But what else can you expect from Disney? Better just watching some fantastic Beatles films and anime.
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- J-Z said...
- Posted on Jun 02 2009 19:52 Can't you people even spell?
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- Charley said...
- Posted on Feb 21 2009 13:33 It's like Zathora and Jamanji I loved Jamanji so I'm gonna see bed time stories. xx
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- jade said...
- Posted on Feb 20 2009 21:52 it sounds and looks greate
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- dodoa said...
- Posted on Feb 18 2009 13:19 sum people r saying its gr8. sum say its rubbish. what shall i believe.
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- Scarlett said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2009 12:11 I thought thay the film was great and i dont think that it should have a 2 satar ratingt !!!!!
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- Scarlett said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2009 12:11 I thought thay the film was great and i dont think that it should have a 2 satar ratingt !!!!!
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- Scarlett said...
- Posted on Feb 08 2009 12:11 I thought thay the film was great and i dont think that it should have a 2 satar ratingt !!!!!
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- graham camp said...
- Posted on Feb 07 2009 08:53 bed time storys looks super
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- GRAHAM CAMP said...
- Posted on Feb 07 2009 08:52 BED TIME STORYS LOOKS WELL GOOD.
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- gema camp said...
- Posted on Feb 07 2009 08:51 "bed time storys looks well good"
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- dana said...
- Posted on Jan 31 2009 09:13 greattt film funny wid the jumballs hahahaha
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- Roy said...
- Posted on Jan 30 2009 14:33 weak predictable and withan extremely poor performance from Brand who's so painfully unfunny to watch in this I'll be missigneverything else he's in from here on out. Inkheart for all it's flawrs is a better treatment of a similar idea
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Cast & crew
Director: Adam Shankman
Cast: Adam Sandler, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Keri Russell, Richard Griffiths, Teresa Palmer, Lucy Lawless, Courteney Cox, Jonathan Pryce, Nick Swardson, Carmen Electra, Aisha Tyler full cast
Genre(s): Children's, Comedy
Rated: PG
Duration: 98 mins
UK Release: Dec 19 2008
US Release: Dec 25 2008
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