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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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- laura said...
- Posted on Dec 27 2008 14:01 the film is amazing very funny and good for a family day. i would recomend it to anyone, go and see it you will love it x
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- gavbo said...
- Posted on Dec 27 2008 12:32 If you like Adam Sandler then you will like this. I took my wife and kids and we all enjoyed it - somthing for everyone. Brilliant.
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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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